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19,452 structures · 51 states · 15 registrant names

American Tower towers

American Tower owns 19,452 constructed structures in the FCC registry — 14% of all registered structures — filed under 15 different entity names. Its largest state is Texas with 2,187. The most common type is the lattice tower (29%), the median height is 256 feet, and 42% went up in the 2000s, more than in any other decade.

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  1. 1Structures 19,452
  2. 2Median height 256 ft
  3. 3Largest state Texas
  4. 4Registrant names 15
Texas2,187Florida1,036Georgia1,009North Carolina1,002Ohio1,000Mississippi982Michigan842Illinois784Alabama722South Carolina708
American Tower structures in its ten largest states, bars to scale. Source: FCC ASR, October 2026.

The names it files under

When you look up the tower on your land, the FCC record will show one of these entity names rather than "American Tower". They are the same company for the purposes of your lease: the entity on the record is the one your lease has been assigned to.

Registrant name (as filed)Structures
American Towers LLC16,693
American Towers, LLC1,151
Global Tower, LLC. through American Towers, LLC1,001
SpectraSite Communications, LLC. through American Towers, LLC.541
American Tower LLC32
American Towers L.L.C11
American Towers, LLC.7
American Towers LLC.6
American Towers LLC4
American Tower Asset Sub, LLC1
Global Tower, LLC through American Towers LLC1
AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION DBA = SOUTHWEST MICRONET1

Plus 3 smaller registrant names.

Types and age

Lattice tower5,585Guyed tower4,952Tower4,471Monopole3,094Pole564Other or unspecified456Mast249Tree / stealth57On a building16Water tank8
American Tower structures by type, bars to scale. Source: FCC ASR.
2291950s3131960s2471970s7181980s5,8451990s8,2172000s3,6032010s2632020s
American Tower structures by decade built, columns to scale. Source: FCC ASR.

Where its towers cluster

American Tower has structures in 2,572 of the counties that have a page on this site. The counties where it owns the most are below, with its share of each county's registered structures — the higher the share, the more likely a tower lease in that county runs to American Tower.

CountyAmerican TowerShare of county
Harris County, TX10810%
Cook County, IL8413%
Bexar County, TX8116%
Clark County, NV6411%
Dallas County, TX6315%
Hamilton County, OH5929%
Wake County, NC5423%
Mecklenburg County, NC5325%

Every state

Texas 2,187Florida 1,036Georgia 1,009North Carolina 1,002Ohio 1,000Mississippi 982Michigan 842Illinois 784Alabama 722South Carolina 708Missouri 660Oklahoma 584California 502Pennsylvania 494Louisiana 483Indiana 454Virginia 421Kansas 411Tennessee 384Minnesota 372New York 353Arkansas 338Wisconsin 311Iowa 307New Mexico 294Kentucky 263Washington 223West Virginia 218Maryland 214Nebraska 190Massachusetts 159Oregon 156Maine 154New Jersey 140Arizona 138Nevada 111Utah 105Idaho 103Colorado 100Montana 97Alaska 66Connecticut 64South Dakota 61New Hampshire 48North Dakota 48Wyoming 44Rhode Island 33Delaware 30Vermont 25Hawaii 19District of Columbia 3

For a landowner

American Tower is a tower company: it owns the structure and rents space on it to carriers. If its tower stands on your land, you are its landlord, and the rent it pays you is a cost it would like to fix or remove — which is why tower companies themselves, as well as specialist lease buyers, make buyout and extension offers. Whoever the owner is, the calculator values the rent you would give up.

Source: FCC Antenna Structure Registration, weekly public access file (r_tower.zip, created 2026-10-18). Families group FCC registrant names that carry the brand in the name; other registrants are listed as filed. Checked 2026-10-23.