Indiana Fire Towers (by Mark A)

Hickman Hill

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 of Hickman Hill tower

Hickman Hill lookout tower in Lanesville quad topo from 1951

Above: Hickman Hill lookout tower in Lanesville quad topo from 1951

Floyd County cultural map from 1936, from ISL Digital Collections (credit: Map Collection, Indiana Division, Indiana State Library) – Fire Tower in section 23 which is north of the one with “R A” in it

Above: This county cultural map indicates 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

CoordinatesLatitudeLongitude
My coordinates (unofficial)38.241585-85.931096
NGS datasheet for HZ226338 14 28.98219(N)085 55 51.39008(W)

History of Hickman Hill tower

This tower was constructed by 1935.

This tower was not on a major state park or state forest property. It’s shown on a 1935 map, but not discussed much in the DoC annual reports. I would speculate that this might have been a private tower.

This tower was probably standing in 1947 and 1951.