Cell towers in Mountain City, Tennessee
The FCC register lists 23 antenna structures in and around Mountain City. That is the 26th highest count of any place in Tennessee.
Overview
Mountain City, TN has 23 registered antenna structures on the FCC register — the 26th largest count among the 438 places in Tennessee that have any.
Counted against 2,490 residents, that is 923.7 per 100,000 — worth reading alongside area density, since structures cluster along roads and ridgelines rather than where people sleep.
Median height here is 59 m (194 ft), compared with 77 m (253 ft) across Tennessee as a whole.
By structure type the register shows 5 monopoles and 7 lattice towers, plus 1 guyed mast.
The oldest structure on file here was registered in 1968, the newest in 2026 — 58 years of build-out visible in one register.
Structure types
| Tower | 7 | 30% |
| Lattice tower | 7 | 30% |
| Monopole | 5 | 22% |
| Building | 2 | 9% |
| Mast | 1 | 4% |
| Guyed tower | 1 | 4% |
Largest registered owners
owner is not the same as carrier| Tillman Infrastructure, LLC Tower company | 3 | 13% |
| Mountain Electric Cooperative INC Utility | 2 | 9% |
| Johnson County Highway Department Government | 1 | 4% |
| Johnson County Emergency Management Other | 1 | 4% |
| Mountain Electric Cooperative INC Dba = Mountain Electric Utility | 1 | 4% |
Tallest registered structures
| Height | Type | Built | Owner | ASR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97 m (319 ft) | Lattice tower | 2021 | Tillman Infrastructure, LLC | 2714756 |
| 85 m (279 ft) | Mast | 2004 | Ccatt LLC | 2644124 |
| 76 m (249 ft) | Lattice tower | 2001 | Sba Properties, LLC | 2616148 |
| 76 m (249 ft) | Lattice tower | 2001 | Sba Towers, LLC | 2616930 |
| 76 m (248 ft) | Lattice tower | 2001 | Sba Towers X, LLC | 2615805 |
| 61 m (200 ft) | Lattice tower | 2015 | Tennessee Department of Safety | 2693529 |
| 61 m (199 ft) | Tower | 2008 | Cellco Partnership | 2664026 |
| 61 m (199 ft) | Monopole | 2016 | Vb-s1 Assets, LLC | 2698047 |
| 61 m (199 ft) | Lattice tower | 2021 | Tillman Infrastructure, LLC | 2716340 |
| 61 m (199 ft) | Monopole | 2023 | Towerco 2013 LLC | 2723892 |
| 59 m (195 ft) | Monopole | 2026 | Johnson County Emergency Management | 2732730 |
| 59 m (194 ft) | Monopole | 2017 | Crown Castle Towers 06-2 LLC | 2709294 |
| 51 m (167 ft) | Tower | 2001 | Johnson County Highway Department | 2608176 |
| 47 m (153 ft) | Guyed tower | 1995 | Mountain Electric Cooperative INC | 616181 |
| 46 m (150 ft) | Monopole | 2014 | Tillman Infrastructure, LLC | 2692595 |
| 45 m (148 ft) | Lattice tower | 2014 | Prime Tower Development LLC | 2688652 |
| 32 m (106 ft) | Tower | 1973 | Mountain Electric Cooperative INC | 622265 |
| 31 m (100 ft) | Tower | 1968 | Mountain Electric Cooperative INC Dba = Mountain Electric | 621392 |
| 21 m (70 ft) | Tower | 2011 | Tennessee, State of (tdoc) | 2678461 |
| 18 m (60 ft) | Tower | 1991 | Tennessee, State Of | 1098074 |
| 18 m (59 ft) | Building | 1983 | Second District Vol Fire Dept | 621393 |
| 18 m (59 ft) | Building | 1998 | Neva Vol Fire Dept | 621394 |
| 10 m (33 ft) | Tower | 1993 | State of Tennessee, Department of Transportation, Aeronautics | 2602788 |
When they were registered
| 1960s | 1 | 4% |
| 1970s | 1 | 4% |
| 1980s | 1 | 4% |
| 1990s | 4 | 17% |
| 2000s | 6 | 26% |
| 2010s | 6 | 26% |
| 2020s | 4 | 17% |
Nearby places
- Bristol 8
- Elizabethton 16
- Bluff City 6
- Blountville 14
- Johnson City 20
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.