What Are These Tower Structures?

[mac2]

I've been watching true crime shows from the Discovery Channel. Each show covers a murder in a particular town in the US, and usually comments that it didn't usually happen in this town where crime was very low, people leave their doors unlocked etc.

The camera gives like a panoramic view of the location and there's usually this tower structure with the name of the town printed on it, sorta like a water tower or something, about 60 feet high? Can anyone tell me what these are? Just curious. Cheers.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

What is the name of the TV show?

Does every town have one of these towers?

 

[steveno]

probably is a water tower. many different shapes and sizes

 

[mac2]

What is the name of the TV show?

Does every town have one of these towers?

At the moment, I'm watching "Snapped", but there's others. Not sure if every town has one, but there's quite a few.

 

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Water tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[THE PILGRIM]

If every town has one, it almost has to be water towers.
We don't have any here. We got elevation difference,
You pump it mostly out of the ground.
Then you pump it up hill.
Then you store it in big tanks. Some are buried.
When you need it, it runs downhill to your house.

 

[mac2]

OK thanks; why is the town name printed on them?

 

[steveno]

you don't want anybody to get lost

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I have seen town names on water towers all over the countryside.
Civic pride? Lost Airplanes?

 

[3dots]

We have town names on all of ours and some also have the high school football team logo/mascot

 

[rwsmith]

Cell towers???

Often in crime shows they use cell phone towers to triangulate whereabouts of a person at a particular time to check their alibis.

 

[max]

Many years ago the name was put on there to help pilots. This was before radar, radio, etc. Also if you are driving in a new area, it can be helpful.

 

[steveno]

if you go north on Hwy. # 85 to Cheyenne through Nunn , Colorado you can see "Watch Nunn Grow" on the water tower

 

[THE PILGRIM]

if you go north on Hwy. # 85 to Cheyenne through Nunn , Colorado you can see "Watch Nunn Grow" on the water tower

I do love optimism! But you will probably see a UFO before you actually see
Nunn, CO grow.

 

[Iggy]

I do love optimism! But you will probably see a UFO before you actually see
Nunn, CO grow.

I been watchin' for 65 years and it ain't done a thing...

 

[gdnagle]

Name is on them in case they get lost or stolen. You want to have them put back where they came from.

OK just looked I guess they don't have water towers in the UK.

Yep water towers and so you know what town your at. Also makes less room for kid to put graffiti on.

Check some of these out.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Wat...a=X&ei=v7MlVKC-PIeryQSBxIDgBg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg

 

[GerSan69]

It's so the residents know where they live.

 

[mac2]

Many years ago the name was put on there to help pilots. This was before radar, radio, etc. Also if you are driving in a new area, it can be helpful.

Yep, that makes sense; think it did cross my mind something to do with pilots.

 

[UncleEd]

They're a clever ruse sold to towns by appealing to their civic pride.

They're actually federal spy units, keeping track of every citizen.

The NSA is everywhere.

Where the towers don't exist, check under your bed for fuzz balls which are actually listening devices.

 

[mac2]

OK just looked I guess they don't have water towers in the UK.

We do actually, not many it seems; there's just nothing written on them - this one's about 15-20 miles away from me:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_Wv5iGVWpJk/UL4GsWGUPgI/AAAAAAAABkE/2j6VUHlt3jw/s1600/WaterTower.jpg

Anyway, mystery solved - thanks for the replies.