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Sutro Tower: History, Construction & Stations

Sutro Tower is a unique three-legged 297.8 m (977 ft) tall TV and radio lattice tower located on the West Side of San Francisco, California. Rising from a hill between Twin Peaks and Mount Sutro near Clarendon Heights, it is a prominent feature of the city skyline and a landmark for city residents and visitors. The tower was the tallest structure in San…

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Sutro Tower topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Construction and Stations as prominent areas in the source structure around Sutro Tower.

Related topics
61
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
66
Extracted relationships
91
Concept neighborhoods
24
Bridge connections
66

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Construction · 28 topics
History · 12 topics
Overview · 12 topics
Stations · 6 topics
Access · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Owner
Sutro Tower, Inc.
Location
San Francisco, California, 1 La Avanzada Street Clarendon Heights
Antenna spire
297.8 m (977 ft)
Architect
Furman L. Anderson Jr.
Architecture firm
Kline Iron & Steel · Albert C. Martin and Associates
Completed
July 4, 1973

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Construction

Access

Stations

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Sutro Tower connects Entity context

The extracted context around Sutro Tower shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Sutro Tower → ABC-owned, Approximately, Bay Area, CBS, Columbia, Construction, Cox Media Group, Earthquake, FCC, FM, Fox Television Stations, It, January, July, KGO-TV, Kline Towers, KOFY-TV, KPIX, KPJK, KPYX Another extracted example is Sutro Tower → Allison, Bay Area, Before, By, Diablo, Golden Gate Bridge, Herb Caen, Local, Monument Peak, Mt, San Bruno Mountain, San Francisco, The, Transmitters. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Sutro Tower

Top relations

related to Construction · 35
Sutro Tower → ABC-owned, Approximately, Bay Area, CBS, Columbia, Construction, Cox Media Group, Earthquake, FCC, FM, Fox Television Stations, It, January, July, KGO-TV, Kline Towers, KOFY-TV, KPIX, KPJK, KPYX
related to history · 14
Sutro Tower → Allison, Bay Area, Before, By, Diablo, Golden Gate Bridge, Herb Caen, Local, Monument Peak, Mt, San Bruno Mountain, San Francisco, The, Transmitters
related to Access · 7
Sutro Tower → East Bay, Mount Diablo, On, Only, San Francisco, The, There
related to Radio · 7
Sutro Tower → FM, Formerly KREV, KEXC, KNBR-FM, KOIT, KOSF, KSOL
related to External links · 6
Sutro Tower → IncSutrotower, Mount Sutro, Official Site, RCA Broadcast Magazine, Tower Site, Week September
Other dimensions · 3
Sutro Tower → antenna triangle spaced 30.5 m (100 ft) on a side, base triangle legs spaced 45.7 m (150 ft) on a side, waist triangle legs spaced 18.3 m (60 ft) on a side
related to Television · 3
Sutro Tower → Most, Subchannel, TV
Architecture firm · 2
Sutro Tower → Albert C. Martin and Associates, Kline Iron & Steel
Antenna spire · 1
Sutro Tower → 297.8 m (977 ft)
Architect · 1
Sutro Tower → Furman L. Anderson Jr.

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

tower san sutro francisco stations television ft bay area radio construction 1973 mount city property location level 297 977 station

Sutro Tower relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 91 structured relationships around Sutro Tower. Examples in this analysis include Sutro Tower → Antenna spire → 297.8 m (977 ft) and Sutro Tower → Architect → Furman L. Anderson Jr.. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Sutro TowerAntenna spire297.8 m (977 ft)1.00infobox
Sutro TowerArchitectFurman L. Anderson Jr.1.00infobox
Sutro TowerArchitecture firmKline Iron & Steel1.00infobox
Sutro TowerArchitecture firmAlbert C. Martin and Associates1.00infobox
Sutro TowerCompletedJuly 4, 19731.00infobox
Sutro TowerConstruction started19711.00infobox
Sutro TowerCoordinates.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars…1.00infobox
Sutro TowerElevation254.2 m (834 ft)1.00infobox
Sutro TowerEngineerSimpson Gumpertz & Heger1.00infobox
Sutro TowerLocationSan Francisco, California, 1 La Avanzada Street Clarendon Heights1.00infobox
Sutro TowerObservatoryon Level 6, 228.8 m (751 ft) above base1.00infobox
Sutro TowerOther dimensionsbase triangle legs spaced 45.7 m (150 ft) on a side1.00infobox
Sutro TowerOther dimensionswaist triangle legs spaced 18.3 m (60 ft) on a side1.00infobox
Sutro TowerOther dimensionsantenna triangle spaced 30.5 m (100 ft) on a side1.00infobox
Sutro TowerOwnerSutro Tower, Inc.1.00infobox
Sutro TowerStatusCompleted1.00infobox
Sutro TowerStructural systemTruss tower1.00infobox
Sutro TowerTypeRadio mast1.00infobox
Sutro Toweris aunique three-legged 297.8 m0.90text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Sutro Tower bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Tower, San and Stations. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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    • Stations
    • Francisco
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    • Area
    • Television
    • Former
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    • Within
    • Construction
    • Mount
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    • Stations
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    • Television
    • Bay
    • Former
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    • Within
    • Construction
  • lattice tower
    • Stations
    • Area
    • Bay
    • Television
    • Kpix
    • Major
    • Time
    • Tv
    • West
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    • Completed
    • Construction
  • mount sutro
    • Tower
    • San
    • Stations
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    • Peaks
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  • san francisco chronicle
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    • Sutro
    • Time
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    • Property
    • Area
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Sutro Tower, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Sutro Tower with Construction. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Sutro Tower — Construction · splits 38 ⟂ 29
Sutro Tower — Overview · splits 54 ⟂ 13
Sutro Tower — History · splits 54 ⟂ 13
Sutro Tower — Stations · splits 60 ⟂ 7
Sutro Tower — Access · splits 63 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Sutro Tower

Nodes67
Edges66
Triples91
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.029851
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Sutro Tower to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Construction & Stations, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Sutro Tower · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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