Knob Lick Fire Lookout Tower – Knob Lick MO

City:
Knob Lick, MO

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation, Forestry and Agriculture, Fire Lookouts

New Deal Agencies:
Unknown, Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Completed:
1938

Quality of Information:
Moderate

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

This lookout tower was built as a New Deal project, potentially by the CCC, but the agency in charge is not known definitively. The tower is accessible about halfway up to an observation platform and is about 1 mile off of Hwy 67. Views from the platform are excellent in all 4 quadrants. There are no associated outbuildings.

Source notes

Missouri Lookout Tower Inventory website

Site originally submitted by Charles Swaney on July 19, 2015.

Location Info


Knob Lick Tower Rd.
Knob Lick, Missouri 64651
St. Francois County

Location notes: Tower is located south of Knob Lick on Hwy 67, west on Canterbury Rd, and immediately right on Knob Lick Tower Rd.

Coordinates: 37.664050, -90.385648

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