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Cell towers in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

The FCC register lists 9 antenna structures in and around Portsmouth. That is the 10th highest count of any place in New Hampshire.

Registered structures
9
Median height
61 m (200 ft)
+19.8% vs state median
Tallest
150 m (492 ft)
Per 100k residents
39.1
population 23,028 (2025)

Overview

The FCC register lists 9 antenna structures in and around Portsmouth, NH. That is the 10th highest count of any place in New Hampshire.

The 9 structures here sit at 0.57 per square mile of land.

Heights are uneven: the median is 61 m (200 ft) but the tallest is 150 m (492 ft), roughly 2.5 times that — usually the signature of a broadcast mast among shorter mobile sites.

Lattice towers (1) and guyed masts (3) between them make up much of the register here — both are older, taller designs than the monopoles that dominate newer urban sites.

The most recent registration on file here dates from 2021.

Structure types

Guyed tower 3
33%
Tower 1
11%
Oil or gas rig 1
11%
Monopole 1
11%
Lattice tower 1
11%
Building with tower 1
11%
Building with antenna 1
11%

Largest registered owners

owner is not the same as carrier
Port City Aircraft Repair, INC. Other 1
11%
Gmr Holdings of Nh, LLC Other 1
11%
Eversource Energy Service Company Utility 1
11%
Vertical Bridge Cc FM, LLC Tower company 1
11%
Towerco V Holdings LLC Tower company 1
11%

Tallest registered structures

Height Type Built Owner ASR
150 m (492 ft) Guyed tower 1989 Vertical Bridge Cc FM, LLC 123866
101 m (332 ft) Tower 1973 Eversource Energy Service Company 112981
92 m (303 ft) Guyed tower 1990 American Towers LLC 611637
88 m (289 ft) Guyed tower 1997 Stc Five LLC 115995
61 m (200 ft) Lattice tower 2003 Sba Towers Ix, LLC 2634097
51 m (167 ft) Monopole 2013 Gmr Holdings of Nh, LLC 2720763
36 m (119 ft) Building with tower 2000 Towerco V Holdings LLC 2610014
16 m (51 ft) Building with antenna 2003 Port City Aircraft Repair, INC. 2635150
15 m (50 ft) Oil or gas rig 2021 Cellco Partnership 2720393

When they were registered

1970s 1
11%
1980s 1
11%
1990s 2
22%
2000s 3
33%
2010s 1
11%
2020s 1
11%

Nearby places

About this data

Source is the FCC Antenna Structure Registration file of 2026-08-23. What it records is structures, not the radios mounted on them: the register cannot tell you which carrier operates from a given site.

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.