FDS. This event actually took place in October 1962[6] during the Cuban missile crisis when NATO came on full alert. Thank you! Barracks building in use, most other buildings razed. No radar towers. Launch site now the parking lot for the Children's Theatre of Annapolis and athletic fields. Barracks buildings remain intact and little altered. Difficult to tell with all wild vegetation status of launch site, no buildings appear to be standing, probably earthen berms exist under vegetation canopy. Private ownership redeveloped into single-family housing. Today, partially Intact, Private ownership. Magazine launch doors removed; site appears to be filled in, with vegetation covering fill sites. Until recently, Nike Missile Base C-84 near the Chicago suburb of Barrington, Illinois, served as an archival repository for Lake County; the records were stored in one of the three underground missile storage areas. FDS. Launch "pits" used for reservoirs for the waste treatment plant. Obliterated, Wildcat Canyon Regional Park. All Belgian Nike sites were in the 2 ATAF part of then West-Germany. Pittsburgh Defense Area (PI): At first, three active Army battalions manned the ring around "Steel City". May be a radar platform in SE corner near "Nike Road". Magazine now an auto junkyard. Known as Orange Air National Guard Station. The first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) silos arrived on the Great Plains in 1959 when Atlas sites were constructed in Wyoming. The Boston Defense Area merged with Hartford & Providence Defense Areas in 1962, becoming the New England Defense Area. Aside from its use as a laboratory for the school's astronomy program, the site has been used for storage, research and experimentation. Each squadron has five Missile Alert Facilities which each control ten silo's for a total of 50 silo's per squadron. Launch site abandoned, appears to be above-ground site with launchers located within berms. Private property, with locked fence access. It was used until 15 December 1975 for Civil Air Patrol use, being called Fork CAP Annex. Coventry Park. The 436th AAAB was redesignated as an antiaircraft artillery missile battalion on 5 January 1957 and subsequently occupied four Nike Ajax sites, which went to 1st Missile Battalion, 61st Artillery on 1 September 1958. Fenced. Air Force operations ended 31 July 1964. 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Administrative offices built over Missile magazines and sleeping quarters circa 1991. On Okinawa, the 30th ADA Brigade was on Okinawa. The entrance road has many abandoned trailers and also much junk along the sides. She has visited half of the states, as well as parts of Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean, and regularly travels home to the Hoosier State to see friends and family. Accessible to the public by hiking. Love Illinois? Air Force operations ended 8 Sep 1968; the AADCP inactivated in 1969. USAR Center Magazine area remains, concrete badly deteriorated.BR>. Magazine site is still very recognizable, with the surface concrete pad / blast deflectors and raised areas surrounding the former elevator doors still in place. Private ownership, now MPL Industries. The USAF radar site at Murphy Dome AFS, AK (F-2) was shared with the Army for Nike missile-defense system. Buildings in good shape, no radar towers. Actual missile area had 3 building to hold missiles, and rails to slide them outside. The Puu Manawahua Radar Station and Base Camp was a W.W.II Aircraft Warning Station, and continued to list in 1947 and 1948 USAF Installation Directories. An Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) was established at Omaha AFS, NE in 1959 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. Units assigned are the 2071st USAR School, 326th Maintenance Battalion and 214th MI Company. FDS. Map showing the location of the Minuteman Missile Visitor Center, Launch Control Facility Delta-01 and Launch Facility (Missile Silo) Delta-09. Site is now utilized by the LAPD SWAT team for training. They could also be remotely controlled from Launch Control Centers miles away from the actual silos, allowing sites to be dispersed over a wide geographic area. Remains in secure area, used as a storage area. Two Integrated Fire Control (IFC) sites service the launch site, which contained twice the normal number of batteries. Assembly building is still present. Some accessibility through a ventilation shaft to a small bunker room. Magazine visible, covered with vegetation and refuse. Some buildings in use, others very deteriorated. 2023 Atlas Obscura. In private hands. It was transferred from the Army to the Air Force (Headquarters Command) on 10 Jun 1963. Above-ground site with launchers protected by berms. The buildings are now used as a thrift store, Granny's Attic, and a medical clinic. The CPS-6B radar was removed in July 1958, FPS-8 removed 4Q 1960 until the Nike sites were inactivated in 1971. of baseball diamond. Redeveloped as Anne Arundel County Schools Maint & Operations center. A few vehicles being stored in abandoned berm area, appears in good shape. This field of concrete was once an active defense site armed with nuclear warheads. Redeveloped into Gardner Unified School offices. Air strip is now part of Evergreen Lakes subdivision. Buildings in good condition, also several radar towers. . No evidence of former IFC site. 94th ADA Group, headquartered in Kaiserslautern for most of the Nike-Hercules period had four battalions as follows, with locations: - In Pforzheim (Hagenschie/Wurmberg), in Baden-Wrttemberg there is a missile launch site operated by the US-Army until April 1985. The building that housed the Missile Master site is still standing and concrete paddocks that held radar tower are still visible. Abandoned. Intact, abandoned. Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) PI-70DC established at Oakdale AI, PA in 1960 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. Totally obliterated. It is also used occasionally for communications exercises supporting various US Army operations. FDS. "Missile Base Road". IFC mostly taken over by woods, some buildings still stand, asphalted area badly cracked. As the U.S. and other countries enact sanctions against Russia, some remnants of escalating tensions between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. still stand in Chicago. Upon deactivation of this Hercules battery in 1960, the equipment was forwarded to the Norfolk site at Deep Creek/Portsmouth. Some buildings may still be standing. A missile may have a MIRVed warhead, containing three W78 350-kiloton warheads, to attack three targets. Where's The Bunker? Assembly buildings are still standing but now in private hands. Barracks remaining. Dillingham Airport, Above-ground Nike-Hercules launch facilities overgrown with vegetation, no buildings remain abandoned. Hanford Defense Area (H): Nike missiles replaced and augmented gun batteries that had been previously installed Large number of cars, boats, large RVs. The Alaska Nike sites were under the control of United States Army Alaska (USARAK), rather than Army Air Defense Command. Appears magazines were removed and filled in with dirt. Magazines probably in good condition, launch area being used for trailer and outside storage. Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. It was part of the Nike-Belt, a defense system which was created to defend Europe against the then newly invented jets. FDS. Most buildings being used by the Maryland Wing, Civil Air Patrol with small area used by the Maryland State Police K-9 Division. After the Nike base was closed, it was gained by Ellsworth AFB on 30 Sep 1963, as Ellsworth Academic Annex (also referred to as South Nike Education Annex). Totally obliterated. The former crew barracks are now used for county fire station personnel and the old launch bays appear to be used for storage. A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard. Iron Mountain storage building erected on old Missile pad. Buildings in good shape, Radar tower bases visible. FDS. Also used as police firing range for the City of Gary, with former assembly building berm as the back stop. Remaining buildings in deteriorated condition. The site was inactivated on 8 Sep 1968. [16], 413622N 0724129W / 41.60611N 72.69139W / 41.60611; -72.69139 (HA-48-CS). Because of this new missile, fewer sites were needed and PH-32, along with 7 other Philadelphia region bases, was shut down. As of Nov 1999, it was still on the Ellsworth AFB real property books, excess and awaiting disposition. Portion of the bike trail from Tower Road to the launch complex was original road used to access the base. Buildings exist on east side of road, appear to be in poor condition and overgrown. Razed but broken concrete pads still visible; former Civil Defense site. Exists in deteriorated condition east of and adjacent to the Miramar Armory of the. FDS. The Magazine area is overgrown with vegetation and appears abandoned. On 15 Dec 1956 jurisdiction, control, and accountability transferred back to the Army. Well preserved site with numerous IFC buildings in use. Most structures are still present but have been repurposed as storage buildings. Like Atlas Obscura and get our latest and greatest stories in your Facebook feed. It operated from 1960 until 1968. FDS. Nike Group Operations Control was at the Vestvolden, a fortification at grid 5541'23"N 1226'11"E connected with the Karup Air Force Hq. As in several other states, during the 1960s the National Guard assumed a greater role in operating the sites. 400659N 0745330W / 40.11639N 74.89167W / 40.11639; -74.89167 (PH-15-LS). Currently a paintball site under the name Blast Camp; site is in the middle of farm fields. Barracks and some minor buildings intcdt, also new industrial building constructed on back of site. zoom this map to see individual missile silos. The launch site itself is not part of the paintball area. America built 107 missile bases around the country during the arms race in the 1960s, including the Atlas F Missile Silo located about 130 miles north of Albany. The conversion of former Atlas and Titan missile silos and other government facilities/bunkers into a new safe and functional "hardened" shelter complex requires an in-depth knowledge of a specialized construction program management methodology and specific engineering expertise. You can Every fall, the park holds a, Obliterated, only foundations remain, Township owned. Abandoned, some buildings standing, magazine deteriorating but visible. They were disguised as Propane tanks.no radar towers. Much of site overgrown with vegetation. Intact, Department of Energy, facilities used as auxiliary research labs under Pacific Northwest National Laboratories oversight, currently scheduled for demolition. Appears to be in good condition, no evidence of radar towers. Buildings still standing, missile firing area in good condition. Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) DF-30DC was established at Duncanville AFS, TX in 1959 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. Mix of new and old buildings. The magazines have a one-foot thick cap of concrete on them. The rest of the site is used by farmers. Off Nike Road. Peninsula Airport Commission. On or about 30 Dec 1963 the housing area next to the Launch Site was designated Ellsworth Family Housing Annex No 1, activated, and assigned to Ellsworth AFB. Abandoned. Battery 8,8th Battalion,3rd Air Defense Brigade was located on the Chinen peninsula in southern part of the island. The site was initially an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master Radar Direction Center. Most buildings were razed, with no radar towers. FDS. Appears to be light office building. FDS. YouTube footage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWYAtR-XgTI, This list is sorted by state. [10] During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Travis battalion assumed responsibility for the remaining active batteries guarding the entire San Francisco region. LC buildings along Staley road still in use. Dyess AFB Defense Area (DY): Installed to defend the SAC bombers and Atlas F missile silos stationed at and around Dyess AFB. FDS Redeveloped into single-family housing. Not much else. Upgraded to above-ground Nike-Hercules and re-designated HM-66. Private ownership, fenced. FDS. Buildings in good condition, magazine area in use by the city police department as a vehicle storage area. Used as the Bedford Electronics Research Annex. Launch site buildings still have doors and window glass. N 41 48.039 W 088 09.142. The missile launchers were in a large bermed compound on the other side of the lagoons adjoining the Edens Expressway, about a quarter of a mile south of Dundee Road. In 1982, the Navy transferred 4.2 acres in fee land to the U.S. Air Force, which operated a radio beacon annex from 1983 until at least 1996, first as an off-base installation of. Some buildings are in use, but no radar towers. 3) Far Away From Population Centers - Minuteman sites on the sparsely populated Great Plains meant less lives were directly at risk from nuclear attack by the Soviet Union. Some buildings remain, part of Foster/Gloucester Regional School District. To reach the site, drive to William W. Powers State Recreation Area in southeast Chicago. Obliterated, Milagra Ridge (GGNRA). Private ownership. Site guard shack and owner' house is a reconstructed Crew quarters. The adjacent buildings are used by an EOD unit. A helicopter pad is shown in the lower portion of the photo. You can walk on the former IFC at Lake Shore and E 31st Street; now a nice little park with a playground and good view of downtown, Lake Michigan, Navy Pier and Chicago Harbor Lighthouse. Land incorporated within Alfred Brush Ford Park (also known as Ford Brush Park) at the foot of Lenox Ave. Redeveloped into Bethel Church and Glouchester County Christian School. Redeveloped into Industrial Area. The Shutter Nike Missile Base is tucked away behind a gated fence near the Monroe County Village of Hecker Illinois with a population of about 500. Minor remnants are still visible in the NE corner. Navy amphibious training site. Some buildings remain, in abandoned condition. You can scroll and Demolished Nov 2015 for a housing development. Partially Intact, Maryland Army National Guard. After deactivation, PH-32 was sold to Burlington County for $32,000 and was used as the Burlington County Civil Defense Center. Now Northeastern University Marine Science Center. No missiles were ever actually launched in Chicago. Talcott Mountain Science center (buildings/radar pads). All buildings razed, partially reused by parking lot and West Bayshore Blve. In reasonable condition. Beck VoTech School. Private ownership. Missile magazines exist however launchers appear to be concreted over. Residential housing plan. The U.S. government began phasing out Nike bases in the mid-1960s amid budget cuts. Redeveloped as multiple-family housing. Totally obliterated; replaced by the South Suburban Rehab Center at 19000 S Halsted St. FDS. Anchorage; drug & alcohol rehab center. The German idea of an underground missile silo was adopted and developed by the United States for missile launch facilities for its intercontinental ballistic missiles. Several radar towers standing. Redeveloped, East Bay Regional Park District, Coyote Hills Regional Park Alameda County Sheriff's Department radio transmitter. The blast and thermal effects within a dozen miles or so of each of these silo's will be deadly, and the fallout radiation will spread hundreds of miles downwind. Thoroughly fenced in. FDS. FDS. Abandoned and overgrown. Private ownership, complete and buildings look in good shape. Some military buildings in use, new buildings erected over magazine. See. After being closed by the Army it was established as an Air Force installation, the Sepulveda Air National Guard Station. It was faster, and could travel farther up to 90 miles. Vacant land. The AADCP was integrated with the USAF Air Defense Command/NORAD Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense radar network as Site M-89 / Z-89. There were also sites in Wolf Lake, Fort Sheridan, the Skokie Lagoons and elsewhere placed strategically to overlap so that no part of the Chicago-area would be left unprotected. Later manning responsibilities would eventually be supplied by one active duty unit (3rd Missile Battalion, 1st Artillery) and one Pennsylvania Army National Guard battalion (The Duquesne Greys-2nd Missile Battalion, 176th Artillery). Totally obliterated, nothing left. The missiles were decommissioned in 1974 as the Cold War came to an end, but remnants remain all around the country to this day. Destroyed by fire, former LA County Probation Department work camp. Some IFC roads exist, no structures. Concrete launch pads still visible. Optionally, a missile may contain a single W87 475-kiloton warhead to attack a single target. Also the lawn is cut! Obliterated, City of Detroit. Buildings Demolished Sept 2015 Magazines are there and part of a municipal maintenance facility. Redeveloped into single-family home sites. Dual magazines, in overgrown area, visible. FDS. Totally obliterated; formerly a three-magazine (1B2C)/12-launcher facility with battery at Lake Shore Drive off the end of what's now I-55, south of the McCormick Place complex. FDS. C-80DC was integrated with the USAF Air Defense Command/NORAD Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense radar network as Site RP-31 / Z-31. After the Nike-Hercules site was inactivated in 1966, used by the Air Force until Loring's inactivation in the early 1990s as part of SAC's GCCS (Global Command & Control System. From decommissioned nuclear bunkers to dilapidated military barracks, these properties. Air Force operations at the site ended in 1962, and Nike operations were inactivated in 1974. 20th Century Castles, LLC has sold 60 properties. No radar towers. Buildings in good shape. Some buildings standing, used for school bus storage. Also juvenile detention facility. Maryland Indian Heritage Society, Melwood Horticultural Training Center. The first thing that makes this particular route interesting is the still active missile silos that dot the highway from Kimball to the Colorado border. Some buildings standing, Now USG Plant. Completely redeveloped into industrial park on W side of Calumet Ave. N of 45th St. The MAF In the early part of the Cold War, the threat (perceived or real) of Soviet attack prompted the creation of several U.S. weapons, including the Nike missile. The northern missile magazine is still exposed but has been fenced off and is modified into an underground machine shop. It has a maximum range of 8,700 miles and a maximum speed of Mach 23 This program, known as Project Nike, was the first operational American anti-aircraft system. On that date, it was designated as Potrero Hills Storage Annex; and jurisdiction, control, and accountability were assigned to Travis AFB. Abandoned. Formerly used by the RIANG, 281st CCG, 282d CBCS. Buildings were torn down. mountain ranges, similar to looking at a relief map. Launcher area now motor pool for military vehicles. Here are some maps showing the locations of U.S. Minuteman III ICBM silo's along with coordinates. All Belgian Nike sites were in the 2 ATAF part of then West- Germany. May be used as a parking lot. Located at the north end of Centennial Park along 153rd St. between Huntington Ct. and Hickory Dr. FDS. Guard shack still visible, launcher site clearly visible, and administrative buildings still in use. Fire Control largely preserved and accessible via hiking trail. Former above-ground site with berms protecting launchers. A few old IFC buildings in use, no radar towers. Remains an Army Reserve facility. Many buildings still in use, magazines still electrified and operable, used by owner for storage. On 6 Mar 1951 it was redesignated Wolters Air Force Base. Roads exist with severe cracking in poor shape. there, you'd probably ignore it. Alert Operations and the Strategic Air Command, This is What Its Like to Be in Control of the Most Powerful Weapons on the Planet, U.S. ICBM to Replace 1970s Minuteman May Cost $111 Billion. Now part of the McCormick Place Bird Sanctuary. Partially Intact, FEMA Agency Region X HQ and US Army Reserve Hooper Center. W-13DC was the first Missile-Master DC to become operational. Partially intact, on "Nike Road". The Nike Hercules was Ajaxs successor. Offer available only in the U.S. (including Puerto Rico). Now a parking lot. No evidence of IFC. A semi-circular embankment protecting the fueling area remains. Some buildings standing, used by the Twin Pines Council of Governments as a Police Firing Range. Hartford Defense Area (HA): Operational in 1956, these sites were first manned by Regular Army and later by Guard Units. There were more active silos in the past. Their defending area was the industrial Ruhr area. Partially intact, buildings being used, no evidence of radar towers. FDS, now private ownership, fenced, restricted access. Road back to launch site from IFC in good shape. Check it out: For more like this, check out these 10 state parks in Illinois that are totally splendid. Hart Island, Double Magazines covered over with vegetation on north end of island; Buildings spread out all over the island, all appear in highly deterioration condition. The satellite view allows you to see the actual military facility when you zoom in. Is fenced in, with a "No Trespassing" sign, guard shack and many buildings in good repair. Buildings torn down, launch pads consist of concrete slabs and bunkers. Private ownership. Command, maintenance, and fueling buildings now serve as the U.S. Border Patrol's Detroit Sector Headquarters. Condition unknown. Missile launch areas now abandoned and overgrown. The site was initially an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master Radar Direction Center. As the sites were decommissioned, they were first offered to federal agencies. No remnants remain except some small broken chunks of concrete. The site was initially an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master Radar Direction Center. (WTTW Archive). 1 The U.S. Department of Defense chose Marine as one of the four sites for a Nike Missile Base in the St. Louis area. Berms around missile launch sites now around buildings erected in former missile sites. On mountain peak, leveled flat for the base. Now under private ownership, Explosives Technology. Abandoned site at the north end of the SRA/north shore of the lake, where S. Wolf lake Blvd. Some old buildings remain. The remainder of these sites are privately owned. Nike operations at the site inactivated in 1962. No evidence of IFC site. FDS. The owner had planned to use it as a Law Enforcement Training facility, however, after rejecting a bid submitted by a construction company owned by the Planning Commission Chairman, the owners requests for permits were rejected. FDS Redeveloped into Croom Vocational High School, the launch site is identified as the auto, building trades, and grounds keeping school. Now "Nike Overlook Park". FDS. Now L-58C is used as a Long Range Radar (LRR) site by the FAA, designated "J-63" equipped with ARSR-4 Radar. Manning was by A/602nd (11/55-8/56), A/54th (8/56-9/58), A/4/1st (9/58-12/62) and MDArNG D/1/70th (12/62-4/74). The Map/Satellite control in the upper lefthand corner of the screen lets you choose either the normal map view or the satellite view. Double magazine now motor pool area for Army Reserve unit. Evidence of IFC structures on hill behind buildings. Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) W-13DC established at Fort Meade, MD in 1957 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. There are a total of 450 silo's in the United States as per officially supplied information spread out among three main areas in the United States: around Malmstrom AFB near Great Falls Montana, around Warren AFB near Cheyenne Wyoming, and around Minot AFB near Minot North Dakota. The Minuteman III has an inertial navigation guidance system that is entirely internal. Every weekday we compile our most wondrous stories and deliver them straight to you. The site was equipped with the AN/GSG-5(V) BIRDIE solid-state computer system. The site was purchased by a developer who intended to split the property, with the new Spring Run neighborhood to be built on the control area. Site razed in 2006; now a vacant lot with visible concrete debris piled up in several places. Few buildings left, faint traces of one magazine but very little of Launch site remains. Part of the concrete structures and the bases of the radar towers are still standing, and used for paintball wars by the local youth. You can zoom in and out in a few ways. Built on 11 acres of land, the silo was specifically home to the. The property was transferred from the Army to the Air Force on 31 Jul 1964. Next, turn left on Wolf Lake Drive and follow it all the way back to where the road forks. The other two Illinois facilities were in Grafton and Hector, with a fourth location in Pacific, Missouri. Double-magazine site with Nike Assembly building evident, also concrete launcher foundations. Part of Allegheny County Police and Fire Training Academy. Both defense areas appear to have been manned by 2nd Battalion, 55th Artillery (Air Defense) at times between 1958 and 1964. In highly urban area. After the Army closed the Nike facility, It was gained as an off-base installation of Andrews AFB on 21 Feb 1975, under Headquarters Command. Site was never operational. Nuclear missile launch sites were installed across the country during the cold war in the 1950s and 1960s, and some were placed in illinois. Redeveloped into US Consumer Products Safety Commission Engineering Laboratory. Some construction on launching area, launch doors concreted over, but one of the two magazines had been converted into a gym. After inactivation, the property reverted to Selfridge AFB. Large wooded area around the home appears to be totally redeveloped with no evidence of IFC, although may be parts of the facility in the woods to the southwest of the house.
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