Cell towers in Silver Spring, Maryland
The FCC register lists 11 antenna structures in and around Silver Spring. That is the 20th highest count of any place in Maryland.
Overview
Silver Spring, MD has 11 registered antenna structures on the FCC register — the 20th largest count among the 287 places in Maryland that have any.
Area density is 1.40 per square mile — usually the more telling figure for infrastructure that follows terrain, roads and line of sight rather than population.
Median height here is 61 m (200 ft), compared with 61 m (199 ft) across Maryland as a whole.
Monopoles account for 27.3% of the registrations here — a single tubular shaft, cheaper to permit in built-up areas because it takes little ground space.
The oldest structure on file here was registered in 1941, the newest in 2023 — 82 years of build-out visible in one register.
Structure types
| Monopole | 3 | 27% |
| Tower array | 2 | 18% |
| Tower | 1 | 9% |
| Tank | 1 | 9% |
| Lattice tower | 1 | 9% |
| Guyed tower | 1 | 9% |
| Building with tower | 1 | 9% |
| Building | 1 | 9% |
Largest registered owners
owner is not the same as carrier| Vertical Bridge Towers, IV LLC Tower company | 2 | 18% |
| Maryland Nat'L Capital Park & Planning Commission Government | 1 | 9% |
| Royco, INC. Other | 1 | 9% |
| Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission Government | 1 | 9% |
| Washington Metro Area Transit Authority Wmata Government | 1 | 9% |
Tallest registered structures
| Height | Type | Built | Owner | ASR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 230 m (755 ft) | Guyed tower | 1985 | Vertical Bridge Cc FM, LLC | 605832 |
| 90 m (296 ft) | Building with tower | 1992 | Royco, INC. | 614644 |
| 81 m (265 ft) | Tower | 1996 | Maryland Nat'L Capital Park & Planning Commission | 618560 |
| 75 m (247 ft) | Tank | 2001 | Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission | 2611921 |
| 66 m (215 ft) | Lattice tower | 2023 | Washington Metro Area Transit Authority Wmata | 2720358 |
| 61 m (200 ft) | Tower array | 1941 | Vertical Bridge Towers, IV LLC | 605833 |
| 61 m (200 ft) | Tower array | 1941 | Vertical Bridge Towers, IV LLC | 605834 |
| 53 m (174 ft) | Monopole | 2007 | American Towers LLC | 2652752 |
| 48 m (157 ft) | Building | 2019 | Montgomery, County Of | 2705472 |
| 39 m (129 ft) | Monopole | 1997 | Global Tower, LLC. Through American Towers, LLC | 2679395 |
| 38 m (126 ft) | Monopole | 2006 | Sba Monarch Towers III, LLC | 2659501 |
When they were registered
| 1940s | 2 | 18% |
| 1980s | 1 | 9% |
| 1990s | 3 | 27% |
| 2000s | 3 | 27% |
| 2010s | 1 | 9% |
| 2020s | 1 | 9% |
Nearby places
About this data
Figures are drawn from the FCC's public antenna structure register (2026-08-23). It covers structures that need registering — broadly those over 200 feet or close to an airport — and not the many shorter installations that carry mobile traffic.
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.