Cell towers in Charlottesville, Virginia
The FCC register lists 37 antenna structures in and around Charlottesville. That is the 11th highest count of any place in Virginia.
Overview
Charlottesville, VA has 37 registered antenna structures on the FCC register — the 11th largest count among the 465 places in Virginia that have any.
That works out to 83.4 structures per 100,000 residents, against a population of 44,388.
At a median of 61 m (200 ft), structures here run 0.3% taller than the Virginia median of 61 m (199 ft).
The mix here is 11 monopoles, 7 lattice towers, 4 guyed masts — the rest of the register is made up of rooftops, water tanks and structures the FCC records without a specific type.
The oldest structure on file here was registered in 1961, the newest in 2020 — 59 years of build-out visible in one register.
Structure types
| Monopole | 11 | 30% |
| Tower | 10 | 27% |
| Lattice tower | 7 | 19% |
| Tower array | 4 | 11% |
| Guyed tower | 4 | 11% |
| Not specified | 1 | 3% |
Largest registered owners
owner is not the same as carrier| American Towers LLC Tower company | 12 | 32% |
| Saga Communications of Charlottesville, LLC Other | 4 | 11% |
| Monticello Media LLC Broadcaster | 2 | 5% |
| Milestone Towers Tower company | 2 | 5% |
| Gray Local Media, INC. Broadcaster | 2 | 5% |
Tallest registered structures
top 25 of 37| Height | Type | Built | Owner | ASR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 160 m (525 ft) | Guyed tower | 1999 | Sba Gc Towers, LLC | 624496 |
| 121 m (396 ft) | Tower | 1972 | Monticello Media LLC | 122813 |
| 105 m (344 ft) | Tower | 1964 | Charlottesville Broadcasting Corporation Dba = Wqmz FM | 122814 |
| 96 m (314 ft) | Tower | 1993 | Gray Local Media, INC. | 121108 |
| 96 m (314 ft) | Not specified | 2004 | Gray Local Media, INC. | 2642326 |
| 92 m (303 ft) | Tower | 2008 | American Towers LLC | 118378 |
| 91 m (297 ft) | Guyed tower | 2019 | Vpm Media Corporation | 120647 |
| 84 m (276 ft) | Guyed tower | 1967 | American Towers LLC | 119795 |
| 82 m (270 ft) | Tower | 2004 | Albemarle, County Of | 2641406 |
| 79 m (260 ft) | Monopole | 1995 | Connect Holding LLC D/b/a Brightspeed | 120428 |
| 78 m (257 ft) | Guyed tower | 2020 | Monticello Media LLC | 119791 |
| 75 m (247 ft) | Tower array | 1997 | Saga Communications of Charlottesville, LLC | 126380 |
| 75 m (247 ft) | Tower array | 1997 | Saga Communications of Charlottesville, LLC | 126381 |
| 75 m (247 ft) | Tower array | 1997 | Saga Communications of Charlottesville, LLC | 126382 |
| 75 m (247 ft) | Tower array | 1997 | Saga Communications of Charlottesville, LLC | 126383 |
| 70 m (230 ft) | Tower | 1961 | Norfolk Southern Corporation | 598102 |
| 69 m (225 ft) | Tower | 1997 | Pinnacle Towers LLC | 101937 |
| 68 m (224 ft) | Lattice tower | 2007 | Pinnacle Towers LLC | 128115 |
| 61 m (200 ft) | Lattice tower | 1997 | American Towers LLC | 597121 |
| 59 m (195 ft) | Lattice tower | 1998 | Virginia Electric and Power Company | 104183 |
| 52 m (171 ft) | Monopole | 1995 | American Towers LLC | 120102 |
| 48 m (158 ft) | Lattice tower | 1990 | Array Digital Infrastructure, INC. | 119691 |
| 47 m (154 ft) | Lattice tower | 1997 | Crown Communication LLC | 615663 |
| 46 m (150 ft) | Tower | 1997 | Crown Communication LLC | 615662 |
| 45 m (146 ft) | Lattice tower | 1994 | American Towers LLC | 2686062 |
When they were registered
| 1960s | 3 | 8% |
| 1970s | 1 | 3% |
| 1990s | 15 | 41% |
| 2000s | 7 | 19% |
| 2010s | 10 | 27% |
| 2020s | 1 | 3% |
Nearby places
- Palmyra 6
- Gordonsville 7
- Waynesboro 14
- Orange 7
- Columbia 9
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.