Information
Names: Hickman Hill, Floyd County Lookout Tower, Floyd Lookout Tower
Location: southwest of New Albany
County: Floyd (the only tower in this county)
Topo quad: Lanesville
Condition: Not standing
Maps
Above: Hickman Hill lookout tower in Lanesville quad topo from 1951
Above: This county cultural map strongly suggests that the tower existed in 1936, the date of this map. (Map description: ‘Map resulting from a 1936 survey of roads in the county showing information about the built landscape, including, but not limited to, dwellings, churches, schools, factories, and cemeteries.’)
Links
NGS datasheet for mark FLOYD HZ2261 which is described as ten meters from the tower site, and HZ2263 which was beneath the tower. The tower is described in the original 1947 description of both marks’ datasheets.
Data
Coordinates | Latitude | Longitude |
My coordinates (unofficial) | 38.241585 | -85.931096 |
NGS datasheet for HZ2263 | 38 14 28.98219(N) | 085 55 51.39008(W) |