Cell towers in Columbia, Illinois
The FCC register lists 6 antenna structures in and around Columbia. That is the 194th highest count of any place in Illinois.
Overview
Columbia, IL has 6 registered antenna structures on the FCC register — the 194th largest count among the 1,119 places in Illinois that have any.
Area density is 0.57 per square mile — usually the more telling figure for infrastructure that follows terrain, roads and line of sight rather than population.
Half the registered structures here are taller than 50 m (164 ft) and half are shorter.
Monopoles account for 33.3% of the registrations here — a single tubular shaft, cheaper to permit in built-up areas because it takes little ground space.
The earliest structure still on the register here dates from 1985.
Structure types
| Tower | 2 | 33% |
| Monopole | 2 | 33% |
| Lattice tower | 1 | 17% |
| Guyed tower | 1 | 17% |
Largest registered owners
owner is not the same as carrier| Enable Mississippi River Transmission, LLC Other | 2 | 33% |
| Luhr Bros. INC. Other | 1 | 17% |
| Pi Tower Development LLC Tower company | 1 | 17% |
| Sba Towers V, LLC Tower company | 1 | 17% |
| American Towers LLC Tower company | 1 | 17% |
Tallest registered structures
| Height | Type | Built | Owner | ASR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 123 m (403 ft) | Guyed tower | 1985 | Enable Mississippi River Transmission, LLC | 112106 |
| 56 m (185 ft) | Monopole | 2005 | Sba Towers V, LLC | 2648116 |
| 52 m (170 ft) | Tower | 2004 | Luhr Bros. INC. | 2640054 |
| 48 m (158 ft) | Lattice tower | 2000 | American Towers LLC | 2616543 |
| 48 m (156 ft) | Monopole | 2025 | Pi Tower Development LLC | 2712355 |
| 38 m (123 ft) | Tower | 2007 | Enable Mississippi River Transmission, LLC | 2656983 |
When they were registered
| 1980s | 1 | 17% |
| 2000s | 4 | 67% |
| 2020s | 1 | 17% |
Nearby places
- Dupo 5
- Cahokia Heights 9
- Waterloo 11
- Sauget 10
- East St. Louis 10
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.