Cell towers in Watford City, North Dakota
The FCC register lists 22 antenna structures in and around Watford City. That is the 6th highest count of any place in North Dakota.
Overview
Watford City, ND has 22 registered antenna structures on the FCC register — the 6th largest count among the 292 places in North Dakota that have any.
That works out to 344.9 structures per 100,000 residents, against a population of 6,378.
Half the registered structures here are taller than 47 m (153 ft) and half are shorter.
Lattice towers (8) 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 1983, the newest in 2024 — 41 years of build-out visible in one register.
Structure types
| Lattice tower | 8 | 36% |
| Tower | 4 | 18% |
| Monopole | 4 | 18% |
| Guyed tower | 4 | 18% |
| Pole | 2 | 9% |
Largest registered owners
owner is not the same as carrier| Badlands Cellular of North Dakota Limited Partnership Other | 10 | 45% |
| Vantis Other | 2 | 9% |
| Ccatt LLC Tower company | 2 | 9% |
| Kotana Communications INC Other | 1 | 5% |
| Mckenzie, County Of Government | 1 | 5% |
Tallest registered structures
| Height | Type | Built | Owner | ASR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 152 m (499 ft) | Guyed tower | 2010 | Ccatt LLC | 102794 |
| 128 m (420 ft) | Guyed tower | 2006 | Badlands Cellular of North Dakota Limited Partnership | 2651579 |
| 125 m (410 ft) | Guyed tower | 2010 | Ccatt LLC | 2656841 |
| 91 m (300 ft) | Tower | 2000 | Oneok Rockies Midstream L.L.C. | 2614624 |
| 91 m (299 ft) | Lattice tower | 2020 | Badlands Cellular of North Dakota Limited Partnership | 2694801 |
| 90 m (296 ft) | Lattice tower | 2016 | Basin Electric Power Cooperative | 2697263 |
| 82 m (269 ft) | Lattice tower | 2013 | Badlands Cellular of North Dakota Limited Partnership | 2685724 |
| 79 m (259 ft) | Lattice tower | 2019 | Badlands Cellular of North Dakota Limited Partnership | 2698900 |
| 64 m (210 ft) | Guyed tower | 1983 | Kotana Communications INC | 612664 |
| 59 m (195 ft) | Lattice tower | 2014 | Badlands Cellular of North Dakota Limited Partnership | 2692861 |
| 47 m (155 ft) | Monopole | 2020 | Towerco 2013 LLC | 2711578 |
| 46 m (151 ft) | Tower | 1989 | Mckenzie, County Of | 623859 |
| 45 m (148 ft) | Monopole | 2021 | Badlands Cellular of North Dakota Limited Partnership | 2700587 |
| 42 m (139 ft) | Tower | 2012 | Badlands Cellular of North Dakota Limited Partnership | 2682380 |
| 33 m (109 ft) | Pole | 2014 | Badlands Cellular of North Dakota Limited Partnership | 2693192 |
| 26 m (86 ft) | Monopole | 2016 | Badlands Cellular of North Dakota Limited Partnership | 2699000 |
| 24 m (80 ft) | Lattice tower | 2024 | Exxonmobil | 2731583 |
| 22 m (71 ft) | Pole | 1983 | Montana-dakota Utilities CO | 2601532 |
| 18 m (59 ft) | Monopole | 2014 | Badlands Cellular of North Dakota Limited Partnership | 2693036 |
| 11 m (37 ft) | Lattice tower | 2021 | Vantis | 2719656 |
| 11 m (37 ft) | Lattice tower | 2021 | Vantis | 2720196 |
| 9.1 m (30 ft) | Tower | 2007 | Watford City Municipal Airport Authority | 2657205 |
When they were registered
| 1980s | 3 | 14% |
| 2000s | 3 | 14% |
| 2010s | 10 | 45% |
| 2020s | 6 | 27% |
Nearby places
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.