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Crossroads Fire Tower

Hamburg, Ashley County

Photograph of Crossroads Fire Tower
Photo: Tony Kelley, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons License. Source

This 120-foot galvanized steel lookout, made by the Aermotor Company, was put up by the Civilian Conservation Corps in Ashley County. A house for the tower's operator was built on the same land. It is a good surviving example of the more than 3,000 fire towers the CCC erected nationwide.

Kind of place
Forests, fire towers and conservation
Built by
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Where
Hamburg, Ashley County
Still there?
Not confirmed lately

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Sources

Part of Rediscovering Arkansas’s New Deal, a public map of 1930s New Deal work across all 75 counties. Updated 2026-10-14.