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Ripley Fire Lookout Tower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ96178417 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Ripley Fire Lookout Tower, on Joe Crihfield Rd. in Ripley, Tennessee, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.

It was built around 1970 for the Tennessee Division of Forestry.

It is also known as Edith tower.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 1970—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Ripley, Fire and Lookout is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ripley Fire Lookout Tower” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.