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Cell towers in Pontiac, Illinois

The FCC register lists 16 antenna structures in and around Pontiac. That is the 47th highest count of any place in Illinois.

Registered structures
16
Median height
72 m (237 ft)
+15.0% vs state median
Tallest
134 m (438 ft)
Per 100k residents
148.1
population 10,806 (2025)

Overview

Pontiac, IL has 16 registered structures, the tallest standing 134 m (438 ft) above ground.

The 16 structures here sit at 1.89 per square mile of land.

Heights are uneven: the median is 72 m (237 ft) but the tallest is 134 m (438 ft), roughly 1.8 times that — usually the signature of a broadcast mast among shorter mobile sites.

The largest registered owner here is American Towers LLC, which holds 3 of them — 18.8% of the local total. Owner is not the same as carrier: tower companies lease space on their structures to several networks at once.

The most recent registration on file here dates from 2026.

Structure types

Tower 10
63%
Lattice tower 4
25%
Monopole 1
6%
Mast 1
6%

Largest registered owners

owner is not the same as carrier
American Towers LLC Tower company 3
19%
Vertical Bridge Ntcf, LLC Tower company 2
13%
Metamora Telephone Company Other 1
6%
Nicor Gas / Agl Resources Other 1
6%
Illinois, State Of Government 1
6%

Tallest registered structures

Height Type Built Owner ASR
134 m (438 ft) Tower 2002 American Towers LLC 98071
131 m (430 ft) Tower 2004 Illinois, State Of 2632867
98 m (320 ft) Tower 1967 Nicor Gas / Agl Resources 605255
97 m (318 ft) Tower 1989 Cti Towers Assets II, LLC 98798
84 m (277 ft) Tower 2002 Vertical Bridge Ntcf, LLC 113537
78 m (257 ft) Tower 2002 American Towers LLC 2623393
78 m (256 ft) Lattice tower 2000 American Tower, L.P. 2617537
78 m (255 ft) Lattice tower 2015 Sba Towers X, LLC 2694816
67 m (219 ft) Lattice tower 2026 Commonwealth Edison Company 2667094
61 m (200 ft) Tower 1999 Vertical Bridge Ntcf, LLC 618512
61 m (199 ft) Tower 2006 Metamora Telephone Company 113894
61 m (199 ft) Tower 2001 Spectrasite Communications, LLC. Through American Towers, LLC. 2624821
59 m (195 ft) Lattice tower 1997 American Towers LLC 620619
59 m (195 ft) Mast 2005 Sbc Tower Holdings LLC 2646608
50 m (164 ft) Tower 2006 Cellco Partnership 2649572
20 m (65 ft) Monopole 2013 Union Pacific Railroad Company 2685174

When they were registered

1960s 1
6%
1980s 1
6%
1990s 2
13%
2000s 9
56%
2010s 2
13%
2020s 1
6%

Nearby places

About this data

All figures on this page are aggregated from the federal antenna structure register of 2026-08-23, not from carrier coverage data. The two answer different questions.

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.