Tower Landlord

For landowners with a tower lease · FCC data

Is that buyout offer for your cell tower lease a good deal?

Companies that buy tower leases make offers as a lump sum. This calculator turns your own lease — monthly rent, escalator, years left — into the number that matters: what the remaining rent is worth today, and the return the buyer is pricing in. Below it, look up every one of the 140,917 constructed structures in the FCC's Antenna Structure Registration and see who owns the tower on your land.

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Aerial view of a lattice cell tower with antennas on a small gravel lease pad in a farm field
A lattice cell tower on its lease pad in a farm field. Photo: Wikideas1, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized)
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  1. 1Constructed structures in the FCC registry 140,917
  2. 2Median overall height 214 ft
  3. 3Built in the 2000s 48,440
  4. 4Owner families tracked 24

Lease buyout calculator

Rent still to be paid, undiscounted
Worth today at your discount rate
Offer as a multiple of this year's rent
Return the offer prices in

The "return priced in" is the discount rate at which your remaining rent equals the offer. A buyer offering a lump sum is betting the rent is worth more to them than that; your rate is what the money would earn you elsewhere. The calculator assumes the tenant pays to the end of the term you enter — towers are sometimes decommissioned early, which a buyer is also pricing. Not financial or legal advice.

Find the tower on your land

Or sort by distance

Pick a state. Each row is one FCC registration; the registration number links to the FCC record, which names the owner's contact for lease questions.

American Tower19,454Crown Castle15,473SBA Communications14,039Verizon5,826Array Digital Infrastructure3,963T-Mobile3,696Alltel3,448Private owners2,726
Constructed structures by owner, largest eight registrant groups nationally, bars to scale. Source: FCC Antenna Structure Registration, October 2026.

What the registry is — and isn't

The FCC's Antenna Structure Registration covers structures that need FAA notice: anything taller than 200 feet, and shorter structures close enough to an airport to cross its approach slope (47 CFR 17.7). Most big rural towers are in it; many short monopoles, rooftop sites and small cells are not. If your tower is not listed, that usually means it is under 200 feet and away from airports — not that it is unregistered illegally. 73,560 of the 140,917 structures here are over 200 feet.

The registry names the owner of the structure — usually a tower company such as American Tower, Crown Castle or SBA, sometimes a carrier, utility, railroad or broadcaster. On leased land that owner is normally your tenant, or the company your original lease was assigned to. The ownership guide explains how to trace it.

Towers by owner

American Tower19,454 constructed structures in 51 statesCrown Castle15,473 constructed structures in 50 statesSBA Communications14,039 constructed structures in 51 statesVertical Bridge1,647 constructed structures in 48 statesT-Mobile3,696 constructed structures in 49 statesVerizon5,826 constructed structures in 51 states

All 24 owner groups

Towers by state

Alabama 4,550Alaska 1,475Arizona 1,791Arkansas 3,071California 6,864Colorado 1,613Connecticut 482Delaware 234District of Columbia 29Florida 6,647Georgia 5,726Hawaii 293Idaho 929Illinois 5,168Indiana 3,783Iowa 3,266Kansas 2,852Kentucky 2,887Louisiana 3,704Maine 783Maryland 1,311Massachusetts 965Michigan 4,535Minnesota 2,993Mississippi 3,787Missouri 4,527Montana 1,057Nebraska 2,068Nevada 924New Hampshire 430New Jersey 1,125New Mexico 1,180New York 2,735North Carolina 4,515North Dakota 1,212Ohio 6,156Oklahoma 4,332Oregon 1,434Pennsylvania 4,028Rhode Island 232South Carolina 3,407South Dakota 949Tennessee 3,746Texas 14,607Utah 865Vermont 154Virginia 2,952Washington 2,530West Virginia 1,491Wisconsin 3,943Wyoming 580

Source: FCC Antenna Structure Registration, weekly public access file (r_tower.zip, created 2026-10-18); constructed registrations only. Checked 2026-10-23. Methodology.