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Big Springs Lookout Tower

United States

The 186th tallest tower in the world

m

The Big Springs Lookout Tower is a fire lookout tower in Kaibab National Forest near Big Springs, Arizona. The tower was built in 1934 for the U.S. Forest Service by contractors from Kanab, Utah. The steel tower is 100 feet (30 m) tall and features a 7-foot (2.1 m) square cab at the top. A wood-frame cabin is located near the base of the tower; the cabin was built in 1959 to replace an older log cabin. The tower was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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