The Miskimon Fire Tower in Miskimon, Virginia, was built between April and June 1938. It is 100 feet high with a 10 by 10 cab at the top. A cell phone tower has been built next to it.

The Miskimon Tower has landings/platforms (some currently in disrepair) at each ten foot level. It has guardrails that extend all the way up to the cab. The platforms at each landing are wooden. The roof, like the lower portion of the cab, is made of galvanized steel. The cab has two windows on each side. A trap door permitted ingress to and egress from the cab for the spotter. There was a lock on the stair-side of the trap door and a lock inside the cab. In 1938, the Virginia Conservation Commission and the Virginia Forest Service hired local workers for the construction. Land at the desired elevation was purchased from Samuel Haynie. The counties of Northumberland and Lancaster paid $25.00 each toward the cost of $1800. The unassembled Tower was sent from the manufacturer, Aermotor of Chicago, Illinois.

The Miskimon Tower was used by spotters or lookouts from March/April until fall of each year. Lookouts generally worked a 10 to 4 P.M. shift. From the time of its completion and well into the 1980s or slightly beyond, the Miskimon Tower was vital to these farming and lumbering counties for fire detection and for fire suppression