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Massachusetts Fire Towers

Total known Sites - 104
Last Update - 5/8/2016

Town - Location	Map #	Status
Acushnet - Mendall Hill	1	Standing Active
Adams - Mount Greylock	2	No longer standing
Agawam - Provin Mountain	3	Standing Active
Andover - Holt Hill	4	Standing Active
Ashburnham - Mount Watatic	5	No longer standing
Ashfield - Cran Pond Hill	6	No longer standing
Barnstable - Clay Hill	7	Standing Active
Barnstable - Shoot Flying Hill	8	No longer standing
Becket - Becket Mountain	9	No longer standing
Billerica - Wyman Road	9A	Standing Inactive
Bourne - Signal Hill	10	Standing Active
Brewster - Deer Park Hill	11	Standing Active
Brimfield - Steerage Rock	12	Standing Inactive
Carver - Bare Hill	13	Standing Active
Carver - SW Line Road	14	No longer standing
Charlton - Little Mugget Hill	15	Standing Active
Chelmsford - Robbin Hill	16	Standing Active
Chester - Holcomb Hill	17	Standing Active
Dennis - Signal Hill	18	Standing Active
Dighton - Richmond Hill	19	No longer standing
Dover - Snow Hill	20	Standing Active
Dover - South Side Snow Hill	20A	No longer standing
Duxbury - Captains Hill	21	No longer standing
Edgartown - Airfield Hill	22	No longer standing
Fall River - Copicut Hill	23	Standing Active
Falmouth - Howlands Park Hill	24	Standing Active
Foxboro - High Rock	25	No longer standing
Framingham - Nobscott Hill	25A	No longer standing
Franklin - Top room of Fire Station	26	No longer standing
Georgetown - Balplate Hill	27	Standing Active
Goshen - Moores Hill	28	Standing Active
Granville - Sweetman Mountain	29	No longer standing
Groton - Gibbet Hill	30	Standing Active
Hancock - Brodie Mountain	31	Standing Inactive
Hadley - Mount Holyoke	32	No longer standing
Hanson - Bonney Hill	33	Standing Active
Harvard - Prospect Hill	34	Standing Active
Harwich - Top of Exchange Bdg.	35	No longer standing
Hingham - Prospect Hill	36	No longer standing
Holbrook - Turkey Hill	37	No longer standing
Holyoke - Mount Tom	38	No longer standing
Kingston - Monks Hill	39	Standing Active
Lenox - Lenox Mountain	40	Standing Inactive
Ludlow - Minechoag Mountain	41	Standing Active
Lynn - Burrill Hill	42	Standing Inactive
Manchester - Morse Hill	43	Standing Active
Medford - Rams Head	45	No longer standing
Medford - Bear Hill	45A	No longer standing
Mendon - Chestnut Hill	46	Standing Active
Middleboro - Barden Hill	47	Standing Active
Middleboro - Top of Town Hall	48	Standing Inactive
Milton - Great Blue Hill	49	Standing Inactive
Monterey - Mount Wilcox	50	Standing Active
Mt. Washington - Alander Mountain	51	No longer standing
Mt. Washington - Mount Everett	52	No longer standing
Mt. Washington - Mount Plantain	52A	FUTURE
Needham - Carleeta Hill	52B	No longer standing
Norwell - Judges Hill	53	Standing Active
North Attleboro - Sunrise Hill	54	Standing Active
Oxford - Goat Hill	55	Standing Active
Pelham - Mount Lincoln	56	Standing Active
Petersham - Soapstone Hill	57	Standing Inactive
Phillipston - Prospect Hill	58	Standing Active
Pittsfield - Tower Hill	59	No longer standing
Plymouth - Billington Hilll	60	No longer standing
Plymouth - Manomet Hill	61	No longer standing
Plymouth - Pine Hill	62	Standing Active
Plymouth - Reservoir Hill	63	No longer standing
Plymouth - Telegraph Hill	63A	No longer standing
Prescott - Lighthouse Hill	64	No longer standing
Princeton - Wachusett Mountain	65	Standing Active
Princeton - Wachusett Mountain	65A	No longer standing
Rehoboth - Great Meadow Hill	66	No longer standing
Rehoboth - Long Hill	67	Standing Active
Rockport - Pigeon Hill	68	No longer standing
Rockport - Pool Hill	69	No longer standing
Sandisfield - Town Hill	70	No longer standing
Sandwich - Telegraph Hill	71	Standing Active
Sandwich - OTIS Military Res.	71A	No longer standing
Sandwich - OTIS Military Res	71B	No longer standing
Savoy - Borden Mountain	72	Standing Active
Savoy - Tower Mountain	72A	No longer standing
Sharon - Bluff Head	73	No longer standing
Sharon - Moose Hill	74	Standing Active
Shelburne - Mount Massaemett	75	Standing Active
Sherborn - Brush Hill	76	No longer standing
Sudbury - Nobscott Hill	77	Standing Active
Sunderland - Mount Toby	78	Standing Active
Tisbury - Great Plain	78A	No longer standing
Tolland - Lair Mountain	79	No longer standing
Wakefield - Castle Rock	80	No longer standing
Wakefield - Harts Hill	81	No longer standing
Waltham - Prospect Hill	82	Standing Inactive
Wareham - Tempest Knob	82A	Standing Inactive
Warwick - Mount Grace	83	Standing Active
Washington - October Mountain	84	No longer standing
Webster - Wood Hill	85	No longer standing
Welfleet - At Brownies	86	Standing Active
West Brookfield - Ragged Hill	87	Standing Active
West Tisbury - Indian Hill	88	Standing Active
Westborough - Fay Mountain	89	Standing Inactive
Westwood - Grossman Camp Hill	90	Standing Inactive
Wilbraham - Mount Marcy	91	No longer standing
Williamstown - Berlin Mountain	92	No longer standing

Totals

Total standing active - 43
Total standing inactive - 12
Total no longer standing - 48

Notes:

The "104" total number includes one tower to be erected (Mt Washington)
Fire Tower research by Henry Isenberg
The map locations are approximate
Information on individual towers will be posted as information is found
A 1913 version of the above map can be found here
1/18/2015 - Added new Billerica Tower