Cell towers in Lake Charles, Louisiana
The FCC register lists 67 antenna structures in and around Lake Charles. That is the 3rd highest count of any place in Louisiana.
Overview
Lake Charles, LA has 67 registered antenna structures on the FCC register — the 3rd largest count among the 423 places in Louisiana that have any.
Area density is 1.41 per square mile — usually the more telling figure for infrastructure that follows terrain, roads and line of sight rather than population.
At a median of 58 m (190 ft), structures here run 31.6% shorter than the Louisiana median of 85 m (278 ft).
Lattice towers (13) and guyed masts (4) between them make up much of the register here — both are older, taller designs than the monopoles that dominate newer urban sites.
The oldest structure on file here was registered in 1972, the newest in 2024 — 52 years of build-out visible in one register.
Structure types
| Monopole | 23 | 34% |
| Tower | 18 | 27% |
| Lattice tower | 13 | 19% |
| Guyed tower | 4 | 6% |
| Pole | 3 | 4% |
| Mast | 2 | 3% |
| Building with tower | 2 | 3% |
| Not specified | 1 | 1% |
| Tank | 1 | 1% |
Largest registered owners
owner is not the same as carrier| American Towers LLC Tower company | 11 | 16% |
| Ccatt LLC Tower company | 5 | 7% |
| Union Pacific Railroad Company Railroad | 4 | 6% |
| Vb-s1 Assets, LLC Tower company | 4 | 6% |
| Global Tower, LLC. Through American Towers, LLC Tower company | 3 | 4% |
Tallest registered structures
top 25 of 67| Height | Type | Built | Owner | ASR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 124 m (408 ft) | Not specified | 2012 | Gray Local Media, INC. | 611179 |
| 114 m (375 ft) | Tower | 1989 | Lake Charles, City Of | 99791 |
| 114 m (375 ft) | Building with tower | 1987 | Hibernia Tower/hibernia National Bank | 124263 |
| 114 m (375 ft) | Building with tower | 1981 | Hibernia National Bank | 617730 |
| 110 m (362 ft) | Guyed tower | 2016 | American Towers LLC | 2622930 |
| 108 m (355 ft) | Lattice tower | 2023 | City of Lake Charles | 2722628 |
| 108 m (354 ft) | Tower | 2001 | Trunkline Lng CO. | 101011 |
| 95 m (311 ft) | Tower | 1997 | At&t CORP | 606511 |
| 91 m (300 ft) | Guyed tower | 1983 | Subcarrier Communications, INC. | 2700088 |
| 89 m (292 ft) | Lattice tower | 2013 | Cellco Partnership | 2687052 |
| 87 m (285 ft) | Lattice tower | 2001 | Sba Structures, LLC | 2621259 |
| 85 m (280 ft) | Lattice tower | 2004 | American Towers LLC | 2634015 |
| 84 m (277 ft) | Lattice tower | 1998 | Bellsouth Telecomunications, INC. | 618936 |
| 83 m (273 ft) | Lattice tower | 2004 | American Towers LLC | 2641706 |
| 82 m (270 ft) | Guyed tower | 2021 | Union Pacific Railroad Company | 2718911 |
| 80 m (261 ft) | Lattice tower | 2002 | Pinnacle Towers LLC | 123984 |
| 78 m (257 ft) | Lattice tower | 2020 | American Towers LLC | 2715803 |
| 78 m (256 ft) | Tower | 1991 | Louisiana State Police | 605746 |
| 74 m (243 ft) | Tower | 1975 | Union Pacific Railroad Company | 623367 |
| 68 m (224 ft) | Lattice tower | 2002 | American Towers LLC | 2634989 |
| 64 m (211 ft) | Tower | 2003 | Sba Structures, LLC | 2636267 |
| 64 m (210 ft) | Monopole | 2022 | Lake Charles Harbor & Terminal District | 2717222 |
| 64 m (210 ft) | Monopole | 2021 | Lake Charles Harbor & Terminal District | 2717324 |
| 63 m (206 ft) | Monopole | 2004 | American Towers LLC | 2642736 |
| 63 m (205 ft) | Tower | 1979 | Beauregard Electric Cooperative, INC. | 128814 |
When they were registered
| 1970s | 3 | 4% |
| 1980s | 4 | 6% |
| 1990s | 10 | 15% |
| 2000s | 31 | 46% |
| 2010s | 10 | 15% |
| 2020s | 9 | 13% |
Nearby places
About this data
Counts here are computed from the FCC's registered structure file, dated 2026-08-23. If a mast near you is missing, the usual reason is that it sits below the 200-foot registration threshold.
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.