Cell towers in Elizabeth City, North Carolina
The FCC register lists 22 antenna structures in and around Elizabeth City. That is the 37th highest count of any place in North Carolina.
Overview
Elizabeth City, NC has 22 registered structures, the tallest standing 162 m (530 ft) above ground.
Per head that is 112.1 structures for every 100,000 people; per unit of area it is 1.86 per square mile.
Heights are uneven: the median is 84 m (274 ft) but the tallest is 162 m (530 ft), roughly 1.9 times that — usually the signature of a broadcast mast among shorter mobile sites.
The largest registered owner here is American Towers LLC, which holds 5 of them — 22.7% of the local total. Owner is not the same as carrier: tower companies lease space on their structures to several networks at once.
Registrations here span 1947 to 2025.
Structure types
| Tower | 7 | 32% |
| Guyed tower | 5 | 23% |
| Not specified | 3 | 14% |
| Lattice tower | 3 | 14% |
| Tower array | 2 | 9% |
| Monopole | 2 | 9% |
Largest registered owners
owner is not the same as carrier| American Towers LLC Tower company | 5 | 23% |
| Elizabeth City State University Government | 2 | 9% |
| Sba Towers II LLC Tower company | 2 | 9% |
| Array Digital Infrastructure, INC. Tower company | 2 | 9% |
| Albemarle Broadcasting Company Dba = Radio Station Wcnc Broadcaster | 1 | 5% |
Tallest registered structures
| Height | Type | Built | Owner | ASR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 162 m (530 ft) | Tower | 2000 | Nawcad | 2608675 |
| 158 m (518 ft) | Tower | 2012 | Liberty University, INC. | 127070 |
| 150 m (491 ft) | Tower | 1990 | Pasquotank Camden Elizabeth City Central Communications Dba = Central Communications | 126288 |
| 119 m (390 ft) | Not specified | 1991 | Array Digital Infrastructure, INC. | 110821 |
| 107 m (352 ft) | Guyed tower | 1993 | Sba Towers II LLC | 108204 |
| 104 m (342 ft) | Guyed tower | 2010 | Pinnacle Towers Acquisition LLC | 2614195 |
| 102 m (334 ft) | Tower array | 1947 | Not listed | 621222 |
| 102 m (334 ft) | Tower array | 1947 | Not listed | 2641519 |
| 98 m (320 ft) | Guyed tower | 2004 | Sba Towers II LLC | 2644996 |
| 92 m (303 ft) | Tower | 1967 | Not listed | 107813 |
| 85 m (279 ft) | Not specified | 1987 | American Towers LLC | 113592 |
| 82 m (269 ft) | Tower | 1986 | Elizabeth City State University | 109124 |
| 77 m (254 ft) | Lattice tower | 2004 | American Towers LLC | 2621872 |
| 74 m (244 ft) | Lattice tower | 2022 | Virginia Electric and Power Company | 2721382 |
| 64 m (210 ft) | Not specified | 1982 | North Carolina State Highway Patrol | 113170 |
| 59 m (195 ft) | Monopole | 2005 | American Towers LLC | 2643775 |
| 56 m (185 ft) | Guyed tower | 1995 | Array Digital Infrastructure, INC. | 112325 |
| 55 m (179 ft) | Lattice tower | 2001 | Connect Holding LLC D/b/a Brightspeed | 2609477 |
| 55 m (179 ft) | Tower | 1981 | Albemarle Broadcasting Company Dba = Radio Station Wcnc | 109277 |
| 47 m (153 ft) | Tower | 2000 | American Towers LLC | 2611090 |
| 46 m (152 ft) | Monopole | 2005 | American Towers LLC | 2643159 |
| 45 m (149 ft) | Guyed tower | 2025 | Elizabeth City State University | 2727941 |
When they were registered
| 1940s | 2 | 9% |
| 1960s | 1 | 5% |
| 1980s | 4 | 18% |
| 1990s | 4 | 18% |
| 2000s | 7 | 32% |
| 2010s | 2 | 9% |
| 2020s | 2 | 9% |
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.