Anthony Hill Lookout Tower: fire lookout in Tennessee

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: Standing
Type: Cab on a tower93-foot Aermotor LS-40 fire towerThe design: Aermotor LS-40
Built of: SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built: 1958
Height: Unknown
Elevation: 1,026 ft (313 m)
Agency: Tennessee Division of Forestry
Land: Unknown
Location: Giles County, Tennessee
Coordinates: 35.10819, −87.05740
Registers: NHLR US 1760 · TN 64
This entry: VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 8 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id: us-tn-anthony-hill

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

1958 BuiltBuilt year given in the Register's 'Built' fieldSource: nhlr.org
No record between 1958 and 2014
2014 EventListed among extant Tennessee fire towers as of March 26, 2014Source: npgallery.nps.gov
2022 Condition assessmentRegister cites a site visit dated 11/26/22; the page read gives no findingsSource: nhlr.org
2023 Added to the National Historic Lookout RegisterRegistered August 9, 2023 as US 1760, TN 64; nominated by Jason JohnsSource: 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 8 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

The Anthony Hill Lookout Tower stands in Giles County, Tennessee, and is administered by the Tennessee Division of Forestry.¹ A Forest Lookouts history page places it in the Division's District 7.² The National Historic Lookout Register gives its built year as 1958 and describes it as a 93-foot Aermotor LS-40 tower.¹

Aermotor was a company that built galvanized steel towers, and it produced several lookout models, including the LS-40.³ A 2019 industry history article says the LS-40 model included an inside stairway.³ The Register does not say whether this tower has one.¹

The 1958 date fits a wider pattern. A state study of the Division's towers says most of them were built from the late 1940s to about 1960, though the text we read does not discuss this tower in particular.⁴

The study's table lists the tower among the extant Tennessee fire towers as of March 26, 2014.⁴ A Tennessee Landforms table marks it as standing and gives its elevation as 1,020 feet, while the Register gives 1,026 feet (313 meters).⁵^,¹ The Register also cites a site visit on November 26, 2022, but the page we read gives no findings from it.¹ The tower was registered on August 9, 2023, on the nomination of Jason Johns.¹

Today the sources we read do not say whether the tower is staffed, used for fire watch, or open to visitors, and our record lists its access as unknown. Please check with the Tennessee Division of Forestry before any visit,¹ and do not climb the tower.

Anthony Hill Lookout Tower, National Historic Lookout Register, http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/tn/anthony-hill-lookout-tower/ (accessed 2026-10-08). ↩
Anthony Hill - FOREST LOOKOUTS, Forest Lookouts (easternuslookouts.weebly.com), https://easternuslookouts.weebly.com/anthony-hill.html (accessed 2026-10-08). ↩
The Aermotor Company: From Windmills to Forest Lookout Towers, Society for Industrial Archeology (sia-web.org), https://www.sia-web.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Vol48_No4_Fall_2019_Web1.pdf (accessed 2026-10-08). ↩
Tennessee Division of Forestry Fire Lookout Towers, 1933 to 1975, National Park Service NPGallery, https://npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/64501237.pdf (accessed 2026-10-08). ↩
Tennessee Lookout Towers, Tennessee Landforms, https://tnlandforms.us/towers/ (accessed 2026-10-08). ↩

Photos

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Sources

National Historic Lookout Register (NHLR) (opens another site) Gave us: name, location, county, elevation, 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
tnlandforms.us fire lookout towers (Tom Dunigan) -- GA, NC, TN (opens another site) Gave us: type, links tnlandforms.us (Tom Dunigan) · No licence stated; facts only (coordinates, county, elevation, NGS/GFC/BLL register cross-references, status where given). · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
FOREST LOOKOUTS -- eastern US (easternuslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site) Gave us: 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
Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, agency, 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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