Fire lookout · Currituck County, North Carolina
Currituck Fire Tower
A 100-foot Aermotor LS-40 tower from the 1940s or 1950s, used until the 1980s; its cab has been removed and it is privately owned.
- Standing
- Private land
- Verified
Private land
No public access. Please do not trespass; view it only from public land. Privately owned; the register does not describe public access.
Visit & stay
Not rentable. As far as we know, this lookout cannot be booked for overnight stays.
Access
Private land. See the warning at the top of this page.
- Can you climb it?
- Unknown
- Road to the top?
- Unknown
- Staffing
- Unknown
Facts
- Status
- Type
- Cab on a tower100-foot Aermotor LS-40 towerThe design: Aermotor LS-40
- Built of
- SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- Unknown
- Elevation
- 12 ft (4 m)
- Agency
- Private owner
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Currituck County, North Carolina
- Coordinates
- 36.43570, −76.00168
- Registers
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-nc-currituck
View from the cab
What you see from the cab: every ridge out to about 93 miles, the named peaks in sight, and other fire lookouts within view, worked out from terrain data in your browser.
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Or see what it could see on the map: the ground in its line of sight.
History
Then and now
- 2022 Condition assessmentRegister notes the tower structure still standing and its cab removedSource: nhlr.org
- 2022 Added to the National Historic Lookout RegisterRegistered as NHLR US 1703 (NC 29) on December 25, 2022Source: nhlr.org
- TodayStandingIt still stands, as far as our sources know.
Old maps of this spot
USGS topographic maps from the years a lookout stood may show it, often as a small symbol labelled “Lookout”. See the old topo maps around it on the Firefinder map, or find every scanned sheet of this spot on USGS TopoView (opens another site) (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).
Story
Researched 9 Oct 2026, fact-checked.
The Currituck Fire Tower is a 100-foot Aermotor LS-40 in Currituck County, North Carolina.1 The National Historic Lookout Register dates construction to the 1940s or 1950s, and active use ran until the 1980s.1 The register gives no exact build year, so the decade is as close as the register gets.1
As of 2022, the register says, the tower structure was still standing, but its cab had been removed.1 The register lists the tower as privately owned.1 It was added to the register as US 1703 on December 25, 2022.1
Because the tower is privately owned, anyone wanting to see it should ask the owner first. Please do not climb it without permission.
- Currituck Fire Tower, National Historic Lookout Register, http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/nc/currituck-fire-tower/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
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Sources
- National Historic Lookout Register (NHLR) (opens another site) Gave us: name, location, county, elevation, type, what it is built of, status, register numbers, agency, dates, photos, links National Historic Lookout Register (nhlr.org) · All rights reserved (American Resources, Inc.); facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
- Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, agency, access, dates, links, fact-check Firefinder research (sources cited in the story footnotes) · Our own research notes; each fact cites its source in the lookout's story
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