Cell towers in Desert Center, California
The FCC register lists 6 antenna structures in and around Desert Center. That is the 249th highest count of any place in California.
Overview
Desert Center, CA has 6 registered antenna structures on the FCC register — the 249th largest count among the 801 places in California that have any.
Area density is 0.20 per square mile — usually the more telling figure for infrastructure that follows terrain, roads and line of sight rather than population.
The tallest structure on the register here is 91 m (299 ft) above ground level.
The largest registered owner here is American Towers LLC, which holds 3 of them — 50.0% of the local total. Owner is not the same as carrier: tower companies lease space on their structures to several networks at once.
The oldest structure on file here was registered in 2000, the newest in 2023 — 23 years of build-out visible in one register.
Structure types
| Lattice tower | 3 | 50% |
| Tower | 2 | 33% |
| Guyed tower | 1 | 17% |
Largest registered owners
owner is not the same as carrier| American Towers LLC Tower company | 3 | 50% |
| Riverside, County Of Government | 1 | 17% |
| Interconnect Towers Tower company | 1 | 17% |
| US Army Corps of Engineers Other | 1 | 17% |
Tallest registered structures
| Height | Type | Built | Owner | ASR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91 m (299 ft) | Tower | 2006 | American Towers LLC | 2651961 |
| 84 m (276 ft) | Lattice tower | 2023 | Riverside, County Of | 2713912 |
| 79 m (260 ft) | Lattice tower | 2022 | Interconnect Towers | 2720459 |
| 67 m (220 ft) | Lattice tower | 2000 | American Towers LLC | 2602806 |
| 42 m (138 ft) | Guyed tower | 2000 | American Towers LLC | 2611494 |
| 18 m (59 ft) | Tower | 2009 | US Army Corps of Engineers | 2670037 |
When they were registered
| 2000s | 4 | 67% |
| 2020s | 2 | 33% |
Nearby places
- Niland 5
- Calipatria 6
- Blythe 14
- Thermal 10
- Coachella 8
About this data
The underlying records are the FCC's own registrations as of 2026-08-23. Every structure counted here carries a registration number you can check against the FCC directly.
The FCC Antenna Structure Registration database covers structures that require registration — generally those over 200 feet or near airports. Many small cells, rooftop antennas and short towers are not registered and will not appear here.
"Owner" is the entity that registered the structure, usually a tower company such as American Tower or Crown Castle. It does not indicate which carriers operate equipment on the structure.