Fire lookout · Berkeley County, South Carolina
Bonneau
- Status unknown
- Access unknown
- Unverified
Unverified entry
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Status unknown: We do not know yet whether it still stands.
Visit & stay
Not rentable. As far as we know, this lookout cannot be booked for overnight stays.
Access
Access unknown
We do not know the access rules. Check with the land manager before you go.
- Can you climb it?
- Unknown
- Road to the top?
- Unknown
- Staffing
- Unknown
Facts
- Status
- Type
- Cab on a towerAermotorThe design: Aermotor LS-40
- Built of
- SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- 100 ft (30.5 m)
- Elevation
- Unknown
- Agency
- South Carolina Forestry Commission
- Land
- State land
- Location
- Berkeley County, South Carolina
- Coordinates
- 33.31710, −79.95100
- Registers
- Not on a lookout register
- This entry
- UnverifiedFrom a single source and not yet checked. Details may be wrong. Updated 8 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-sc-bonneau-2
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
No dated events recorded yet: nobody has recorded when this lookout was built or when it came down.
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
Summary from our records, not yet researched.
Bonneau is a fire lookout tower (Aermotor design) site in Berkeley County, South Carolina. Whether it still stands is not recorded.
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Sources
- FOREST LOOKOUTS -- eastern US (easternuslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site) Gave us: name, location, county, type, what it is built of, design, height, agency, ownership, links easternuslookouts.weebly.com · No licence stated; facts only (county, coordinates where the page's own map widget gives them, status, height, design hints, register links). The site's own historical quotes, newspaper citations and narrative are not reproduced. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
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