Tower Landlord

Tower owners / CSX Transportation

228 structures · 21 states · 3 registrant names

CSX Transportation towers

CSX Transportation owns 228 constructed structures in the FCC registry — 0% of all registered structures — filed under 3 different entity names. Its largest state is Georgia with 39. The most common type is the pole (49%), the median height is 70 feet, and 55% went up in the 1990s, more than in any other decade.

1234
  1. 1Structures 228
  2. 2Median height 70 ft
  3. 3Largest state Georgia
  4. 4Registrant names 3
Georgia39Kentucky24Florida22Alabama19Tennessee17South Carolina16Ohio15Indiana14North Carolina9New York9
CSX Transportation 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 "CSX Transportation". 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
CSX Transportation226
CSX TRANSPORTATION INC1
CSX Transportation Inc.1

Types and age

Pole112Tower63Mast21Lattice tower12Other or unspecified11Monopole8On a building1
CSX Transportation structures by type, bars to scale. Source: FCC ASR.
31970s71980s1251990s312000s542010s82020s
CSX Transportation structures by decade built, columns to scale. Source: FCC ASR.

Where its towers cluster

CSX Transportation has structures in 133 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 CSX Transportation.

CountyCSX TransportationShare of county
Jefferson County, KY115%
Greenup County, KY819%
Wood County, OH87%
Davidson County, TN83%
Cobb County, GA73%
Chatham County, GA64%
Florence County, SC65%
Crisp County, GA413%

Every state

Georgia 39Kentucky 24Florida 22Alabama 19Tennessee 17South Carolina 16Ohio 15Indiana 14North Carolina 9New York 9Illinois 8Michigan 7Maryland 6Pennsylvania 5West Virginia 5Virginia 4Mississippi 3Maine 3Louisiana 1Massachusetts 1New Jersey 1

For a landowner

CSX Transportation owns towers for its own operations — radio for a railroad or utility network rather than leasing space to carriers — so ground leases with it are less common than with tower companies. 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.