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Lookouts we can't place yet in Texas
15 lookouts in Texas are named by our sources, but none says where they stood, so they are not on the map. Know where one stood? Use its Suggest a location button: it opens a short form on GitHub with the lookout filled in.
The list
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Choice
Shelby County, Texas
Listed by FOREST LOOKOUTS -- central US (centraluslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
No hill or ridge of this name in the county, but there is a town: Choice. Many fire towers were named for the nearest town. See Choice on the map.
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Henderson
Rusk County, Texas
Listed by FOREST LOOKOUTS -- central US (centraluslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
No hill or ridge of this name in the county, but there is a town: Henderson. Many fire towers were named for the nearest town. See Henderson on the map.
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High Point
Texas, county not recorded
Listed by FOREST LOOKOUTS -- central US (centraluslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
No source says which county it was in, so we cannot look it up.
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Jericho
Shelby County, Texas
Listed by FOREST LOOKOUTS -- central US (centraluslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
No hill or ridge of this name in the county, but there is a town: Jericho. Many fire towers were named for the nearest town. See Jericho on the map.
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Jones
Montgomery County, Texas
Listed by FOREST LOOKOUTS -- central US (centraluslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
The USGS gazetteer has no hill, ridge or town of this name in the county.
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Kountze
Hardin County, Texas
Listed by FOREST LOOKOUTS -- central US (centraluslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
No hill or ridge of this name in the county, but there is a town: Kountze. Many fire towers were named for the nearest town. See Kountze on the map.
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Lake Bastrop
Bastrop County, Texas
Listed by FOREST LOOKOUTS -- central US (centraluslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
The USGS gazetteer has no hill, ridge or town of this name in the county.
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Linden
Cass County, Texas
Listed by FOREST LOOKOUTS -- central US (centraluslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
No hill or ridge of this name in the county, but there is a town: Linden. Many fire towers were named for the nearest town. See Linden on the map.
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Nogalus
Trinity County, Texas
Listed by FOREST LOOKOUTS -- central US (centraluslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
No hill or ridge of this name in the county, but there is a town: Nogalus. Many fire towers were named for the nearest town. See Nogalus on the map.
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Oak Shade
Liberty County, Texas
Listed by FOREST LOOKOUTS -- central US (centraluslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
The USGS gazetteer has no hill, ridge or town of this name in the county.
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Onalaska (Loc 2)
Trinity County, Texas
Listed by FFLA (opens another site)
The USGS gazetteer has no hill, ridge or town of this name in the county.
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Pinkney
Polk County, Texas
Listed by FOREST LOOKOUTS -- central US (centraluslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
The USGS gazetteer has no hill, ridge or town of this name in the county.
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Rusk
Cherokee County, Texas
Listed by FOREST LOOKOUTS -- central US (centraluslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
Several lookouts of this name are already on the map in Texas; this listing may be one of them.
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Sabine
Sabine County, Texas
Listed by FOREST LOOKOUTS -- central US (centraluslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
The USGS gazetteer has no hill, ridge or town of this name in the county.
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State Forest #1
Newton County, Texas
Listed by FOREST LOOKOUTS -- central US (centraluslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
Its name says only “lookout” or “tower”, so there is nothing to look up.