Cell towers in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
The FCC register lists 18 antenna structures in and around Chapel Hill. That is the 48th highest count of any place in North Carolina.
Overview
Chapel Hill, NC has 18 registered antenna structures on the FCC register — the 48th largest count among the 603 places in North Carolina that have any.
Area density is 0.83 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 78 m (255 ft) across North Carolina as a whole.
Lattice towers (1) and guyed masts (2) between them make up much of the register here — both are older, taller designs than the monopoles that dominate newer urban sites.
The earliest structure still on the register here dates from 1968.
Structure types
| Monopole | 6 | 33% |
| Tower | 3 | 17% |
| Pole | 3 | 17% |
| Tower array | 2 | 11% |
| Guyed tower | 2 | 11% |
| Mast | 1 | 6% |
| Lattice tower | 1 | 6% |
Largest registered owners
owner is not the same as carrier| American Towers LLC Tower company | 5 | 28% |
| Rudd Media, LLC Broadcaster | 2 | 11% |
| The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Government | 1 | 6% |
| University of North Carolina Government | 1 | 6% |
| Eip Communications I, LLC Other | 1 | 6% |
Tallest registered structures
| Height | Type | Built | Owner | ASR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 394 m (1,294 ft) | Guyed tower | 2024 | University of North Carolina | 117699 |
| 334 m (1,097 ft) | Guyed tower | 1984 | American Towers LLC | 110491 |
| 81 m (266 ft) | Tower | 2008 | American Towers LLC | 607794 |
| 75 m (246 ft) | Lattice tower | 2021 | Eip Communications I, LLC | 2717538 |
| 70 m (228 ft) | Tower | 1996 | Crown Castle Gt Company, LLC | 97531 |
| 62 m (203 ft) | Tower array | 1968 | Rudd Media, LLC | 610261 |
| 62 m (203 ft) | Tower array | 1968 | Rudd Media, LLC | 610262 |
| 61 m (200 ft) | Monopole | 2014 | Diamond Towers IV LLC | 2687441 |
| 61 m (200 ft) | Monopole | 1999 | Sba Properties, LLC | 2600284 |
| 61 m (199 ft) | Monopole | 2017 | Towercom IV, LLC | 2700653 |
| 61 m (199 ft) | Mast | 1997 | American Towers LLC | 2619499 |
| 60 m (197 ft) | Pole | 2010 | Bellsouth Telecomunications, INC. | 619858 |
| 60 m (196 ft) | Monopole | 1998 | American Towers LLC | 623685 |
| 59 m (195 ft) | Tower | 1994 | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 110310 |
| 47 m (155 ft) | Monopole | 2010 | American Towers LLC | 2654359 |
| 34 m (111 ft) | Pole | 1997 | Ccatt LLC | 2683519 |
| 29 m (94 ft) | Monopole | 2016 | Skyway Towers, LLC | 2698870 |
| 26 m (86 ft) | Pole | 1998 | Crown Castle South LLC | 2680918 |
When they were registered
| 1960s | 2 | 11% |
| 1980s | 1 | 6% |
| 1990s | 7 | 39% |
| 2000s | 1 | 6% |
| 2010s | 5 | 28% |
| 2020s | 2 | 11% |
Nearby places
- Durham 55
- Hillsborough 13
- Morrisville 16
- Pittsboro 14
- Saxapahaw 5
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.