States / Tennessee
TN · #16 of 51 by structures
Cell towers in Tennessee
Tennessee has 3,746 constructed antenna structures in the FCC registry — 3% of the national total and number 16 of 51. The most common kind is the tower (40%), the median overall height is 253 feet, and 58% stand taller than 200 feet. The largest owner is Crown Castle, with 851 structures (23%).
- 1Constructed structures 3,746
- 2Median height 253 ft
- 3Largest owner Crown Castle
- 4Counties with a county page 86
Who owns Tennessee's towers
The FCC registry names the owner of each structure. In Tennessee the eight largest owner groups hold 2,231 of the 3,746 structures. Where a tower stands on leased land, that owner — or whoever bought the tower from it — is usually the landowner's tenant and the party a lease buyout offer is ultimately about.
Types and age
More of Tennessee's registered structures went up in the 2000s than in any other decade (34%). A tower's age matters to a landowner because a ground lease runs for a set term plus renewals: the older the tower, the more of that term has been used, and the fewer years of rent are left to value when an offer arrives.
Every county
Counties with fewer than 10 structures have no page of their own; their towers are in the lookup.
Source: FCC Antenna Structure Registration, weekly public access file (r_tower.zip, created 2026-10-18); county names from the U.S. Census Bureau 2024 gazetteer. Checked 2026-10-23. Methodology.