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FDS. Obliterated. Accessible to the public by hiking. The Army housing was commonly referred to as East Nike Housing Area, and was controlled by Ellsworth AFB until about 2000. Redeveloped into A.E. Several radar towers standing. Relocated from HM-66. FDS. Partially Intact, Private ownership, being used as a junkyard for old vehicles. Redeveloped into park and recreation area. The silo complex was listed for sale on a variety of real estate brokerage sites last. Private ownership. Area fenced and gated. Through the efforts of various volunteer groups, as of 1995, this is the only Nike site in the country that has been preserved and is open for public viewing. Above-ground Nike-Hercules site. Three sites were deactivated in December 1958 as only Saddle Mountain was converted to the new Nike Hercules. FDS. Dillingham Airport, Above-ground Nike-Hercules launch facilities overgrown with vegetation, no buildings remain abandoned. The buildings appear to be in use and in good condition. Visitors are also allowed access to one of the sections barn's. As of 2019, entire launch site covered by new police academy. No evidence of IFC site. The land at 770 Muddy Branch Road (Excess Land Sale Only) is one of fourteen federal properties listed for disposal by the Public Buildings Reform Board in their 2019 recommendations. If you were driving by and you didn't know it was Buildings in good shape, no radar towers. Known as Orange Air National Guard Station. On 1 May 1961 PH-64DC was integrated with the USAF Air Defense Command/NORAD Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense radar network as Site RP-63/Z-63 Nike operations were inactivated on 30 Sep 1966. The mountain between the launcher and the IFC was "notched" in three places to allow the Missile Tracking Radar to acquire the missile while sitting on the launcher. Fenced. DF-30DC was integrated with the USAF Air Defense Command/NORAD Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense radar network as Site P-78 / Z-78. Is now used as the Grand Island Central School District's Eco Island Ecology Reserve. 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. Private ownership, Kraemer Construction Company. Launch site looks abandoned, buildings in deteriorated condition. Large number of commercial bee hives. Redeveloped into Marin County Waste Water Treatment Plant. The security gate to the MAF is 968 feet from the road. FDS. Also used as a self-storage site. In the mid-1990s, the site was sold to another developer who turned the control area into the Briarwood development. C-41 Jackson Park. Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) B-21DC established at Fort Heath, MA in 1960 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. It was later upgraded to the AN/TSQ-51 "Missile Mentor" solid-state computer system. Most buildings razed and rebuilt as a Relay site. Also lots of single-family housing. Being used as an auto junkyard. Redeveloped into single-family housing. Double magazine now motor pool area for Army Reserve unit. It was used until 15 December 1975 for Civil Air Patrol use, being called Fork CAP Annex. 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. Never operational. Were intercontinental ballistic missiles ever housed or siloed at Montrose Harbor? Redeveloped into Phillips Park. Buildings in use, no radar towers. 384744N 0894758W / 38.79556N 89.79944W / 38.79556; -89.79944 (SL-10-CS), Private Ownership Purchased 7-12-14 by Ron Mertens of Smithton IL. Largely intact and listed on the. Buildings well maintained, appears to be 3 radar towers to the east of the buildings still standing. Obliterated, Private ownership, Light Industrial park, In highly urbanized area. Obliterated, Wildcat Canyon Regional Park. Aerial image shows faint evidence of launcher area appears to be covered with soil. Concrete slabs and some wooden curb stops remain, but all buildings have been removed. Not much else. Quite a few of the buildings, except for a metal structure on the north-east corner, are still standing. Some buildings still in use, no towers, two concrete pilons still visible. FDS. Many tractor-trailers on site. Redeveloped into Electric Lighting Company. Private ownership. The areas in black denote deactivated missile wings, the areas in red denote the active missile . Launch site with three intact missile pits located at the end of Stocksdale Road in Kingsville, MD. All Belgian Nike sites were in the 2 ATAF part of then West- Germany. Buildings in good condition, the old radar towers are still standing. Some concrete foundations visible, Magazine now used as auxiliary gym. No radar towers. The Arlington Heights Army Air Defense Site was a Project Nike Missile Master site near Chicago, Illinois. FDS. Access road to highway 4 only remnants of IFC site. Intact, Private ownership. A few, such as site C-44 in southeastern Chicago can still be. Some buildings remain, in abandoned condition. These Nike Hercules sites were manned by Regular Army and National Guard units and operated from 1960 to 1968. Abandoned. Township of Lumberton. No structures appear to remain. At some later time it transferred to Military Airlift Command, and on 1 Jun 1992 transferred to Air Mobility Command. In aerial imagery, launch site appears to be abandoned and overgrown with trees and other vegetation. The roof of the magazines make up the Upper Field of the dog park. Completely rebuilt, with no evidence of a Fire Control Site or radar towers. Land incorporated within Alfred Brush Ford Park (also known as Ford Brush Park) at the foot of Lenox Ave. Facility fenced but appears to be open. W-45 was manned by the A/75th (11/54-9/58), A/3/562nd (9/58-6/60) and MDArNG B/3/70th (6/60-12/61) ADA. Redeveloped into City of LA Department of Airports, Jet Pets Animal Services, Playa del Rey/LAX, California (Shared with LA-70). The radar and control facility was located on the west side of Forest Way Drive two blocks north of Tower Road. Privately owned, abandoned and overgrown, surrounded on north and east by a new subdivision. Buildings in good shape, no evidence of radar towers. No evidence of IRC except some disturbed land where structures once were. Buildings standing, looks abandoned. Never completed. Apparently, magazines are still electrified, and used for covered underground storage. The first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) silos arrived on the Great Plains in 1959 when Atlas sites were constructed in Wyoming. 2023 Atlas Obscura. David Olsen Despite being decommissioned in 1984 and remaining abandoned for decades, the structure is surprisingly well preserved. You can choose to turn Labels on or off. Partially Intact, City of Detroit, River Rouge Park. Almost completely intact, Now Criminal Justice Institute, and Bossier Parish School Board. It was subsequently closed by 1990. Complete with radar towers, in use, use unknown. The National Park Service has a history of how women became missileers. Above-ground magazines protected by berms. 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. Obliterated, State of Alaska control, demolished. No missiles were ever actually launched in Chicago. FDS. Private owners, buildings in good shape, appears to be single-family homes built on site. and its ten silos is called a flight. The site was purchased by a developer with a school built on the launch area. The buildings are now used as a thrift store, Granny's Attic, and a medical clinic. Private ownership redeveloped into single-family housing. Travis AFB Defense Area (T): Established to defend the USAF Strategic Air Command, later Military Airlift Command base. Buildings in use, no radar towers visible. Redeveloped as multiple-family housing. At southwest of Fort Sheridan National Cemetery. Buildings Demolished Sept 2015 Magazines are there and part of a municipal maintenance facility. Obliterated, new office building construction, in highly urban area. Buildings in good condition, no radar towers. After being closed by the Army in 1974, in 1976 the housing part of PH-41/43 was transferred to the Air Force for use by Gibbsboro AFS, New Jersey. Double above-ground magazines, on top of mountain ridge, under US Army control, Both Nike launch facilities overgrown with vegetation, abandoned. OHArNG, C Company, 216th Engineers. No evidence of IFC remains. FDS. May be some building foundations and old roads. Dual magazines, in overgrown area, visible. No radar towers. The AADCP was later integrated with the USAF Air Defense Command/NORAD Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense radar network as Site P-80 with FPS-10 (2); FPS-8/GPS-3; FPS-7C and FPS-6A radars. Triple-magazine Nike Missile launching concrete pad now a parking lot for the Fort Funston hang gliding area. Figure3shows a Google Maps street-view of the entrance to a MAF. Abandoned site at the north end of the SRA/north shore of the lake, where S. Wolf lake Blvd. Buildings at beginning of entrance road, former underground double magazine. Site is now used as a bus parking lot for Meramec Valley R-3 school district. The concrete area around magazines, in good shape, appears to be used as a storage yard. Ajax and Hercules launch doors visible, probably welded shut. Four buildings still standing, no radar towers. Site is now utilized by the LAPD SWAT team for training. An Illinois transplant who grew up and went to school in Indiana for 22 years, Elizabeth holds a BFA in creative writing and has enjoyed traveling across the country and parts of Europe. Other buildings erected and still appear to be in use. Northwest side of what is now Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. Former double magazine. Subterranean shelters for sale Take a look at the weird and wonderful abandoned bunkers for sale right now. USAR Center. Appears to be largely intact underneath vegetation overgrowth; old access road entrance at Ave J & 133 Street largely obliterated. TV transmitter site. Above-ground launch facility with built-up pads, but no evidence of missile launch facilities remaining. The pits are still there, under the park, behind the fire station. Private ownership. FDS. Private ownership, berm and assembly building exits. Above ground magazines protected by berms. Another 60 spare W31's had been kept in permanent storage at grid 4528'46"N 1135'57"E Longare. Launch site abandoned, appears to be above-ground site with launchers located within berms. Closed in 1993 with the inactivation of Loring Air Force Base. Buildings still standing, missile firing area in good condition. Looking Back on President Jimmy Carters 2006 Appearance on Chicago Tonight. "A nuclear missile silo is one of the quintessential Great Plains objects: to the eye, it is almost nothing, just one or two acres of ground with a concrete slab in the middle and some posts and poles sticking up behind an eight-foot-high cyclone fence: but to the imagination, it is the end of the world." Fenced-in area, redeveloped with new landscaping. IFC buildings in use, housing adjacent abandoned and torn down. Totally obliterated, nothing left. FDS. FDS. On mountain peak. Twin Oaks Summer Camp. Abandoned, Pere Marquette State Park, kits if debris on the launchers, site used as a storage yard. Double-battery Nike launch area on top of tall ridge. The AADCP was later integrated with the USAF Air Defense Command/NORAD Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense radar network as Site P-56 / Z-56'. Launch site re-developed into the headquarters building for the Addison Park District; the only remains are the existing fenceline as well as a van pad located to the north of the complex. Access road to site overgrown with vegetation, inaccessible. It was equipped with the AN/GSG-5(V) BIRDIE solid-state computer system. Has radar towers. Some buildings standing, used for school bus storage. Above ground magazines protected by berms. The Map/Satellite control in the upper lefthand corner of the screen lets you choose either the normal map view or the satellite view. Entire site now the WA National Guard Kent Armory. Remaining buildings in deteriorated condition. Theres a Cold War missile launch site in Addison, Illinois that is now home to a charming park where children play. Private ownership, berms still in evidence in aerial imagery. Private ownership. Map showing the location of the Minuteman Missile Visitor Center, Launch Control Facility Delta-01 and Launch Facility (Missile Silo) Delta-09. USAR Center Magazine area remains, concrete badly deteriorated.BR>. CAArNG, 458th MASH facility. Missile pads partially Intact, Harvard University. IFC Obliterated. Barracks buildings remain intact and little altered. Obliterated, overgrown. All air vents, stairwells, hatches, etc. Obliterated, no evidence of existence at end of former access road. The perimeter fence appears to remain. In highly industrial area. Most buildings in good condition, magazine in good condition. It was designed for manual operations, using plexiglass plotting boards and telephonic inputs. Jackson Parks old site is now a golf course. Intact, Communications Facility Partially. Today, the site is in use, some buildings still standing. Former access road to IFC remains, highly deteriorated and partially taken over by vegetation. Many Nike sites are now municipal yards, communications, and FAA facilities, probation camps, and even renovated for use as airsoft gaming and military simulation training complexes. Air strip is now part of Evergreen Lakes subdivision. Controlling the SAMs was the 29th Artillery Group (Air Defense). Site used as vehicle storage for county vehicles, and other public services. It was transferred from the Army to the Air Force (Headquarters Command) on 10 Jun 1963. It's been shuttered since 1969 and all of the. that appear on the map. Redeveloped into Marine Mammal Center. Now Blast Camp paint-ball park. This is an early Ajax-only site that was never converted to Hercules. However, the army also deployed nike missiles to europe as part of the nato alliance, with sites being operated by both american and european military forces. Obliterated, City of Detroit. Intact, abandoned. Still in use, with a few buildings, one radar tower, TXArNG training. Today, most buildings had recently been demolished. Razed but broken concrete pads still visible; former Civil Defense site. Magazines are intact, per Baltimore County personnel, are locked and dry, and are used for Confined Space Entry and Rescue Training. You can turn off the labels if they obstruct your view. Site was never operational, Private ownership, four long military buildings still exist with circular access road, usage unknown. Rebuilt as Los Angeles County prison camp. WTTW News Explains: How Does Chicagos Grid Street System Work? Concrete foundations badly deteriorated, only some building foundations remain. Abandoned. City of Virginia Beach, Parks and Recreation offices. Next, turn left on Wolf Lake Drive and follow it all the way back to where the road forks. It is also used occasionally for communications exercises supporting various US Army operations. Obliterated, Horizon Heights Park and grass runway airfield. Used for herding rams and storage. Abandoned and overgrown. [citation needed]. D-15DC was integrated with the USAF Air Defense Command/NORAD Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense radar network as Site P-20 / Z-20 The Air Force ceased radar operations when the Army no longer needed radar support and the AADCP was inactivated 1 Sep 1974. All missiles in the silos are currently Minuteman III (LGM-30G). Residential housing built in place. Likely most of site is under vegetation cover. Ther are also sleeping quarters and eating areas above ground. Launch doors are probably sealed shut but visible along with Nike concrete launching pads. The launch batteries and magazines were on the east edge of the Jackson Park Lagoons (facing east), about 3/4 mile away from the IFC radar site. Now "Nike Overlook Park". Nike launch facilities obliterated by construction. East side of what is now Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. Largely obliterated, now Massachusetts Audubon education center. Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) S-90DC established at Fort Lawton AFS, WA in 1960 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. Different parts of the site also took on various roles including a fire and police academy, school, and target range. Hq Nike Group and staffing was located at the Avedre Lejr, at grid 5537'59"N 1226'55"E. A few military buildings still in use, new construction. Partially intact, buildings being used, no evidence of radar towers. The areas in black denote deactivated missile wings, the areas in red denote the active missile wings. Some buildings remain, part of Foster/Gloucester Regional School District. If those centers fail to carry out a launch order, specially-configured E6B airborne command posts, nicknamed Doomsday Planes, can take over. Three launch areas. 4255'04.5"N 8809'57.6"W. Demolished as of 2014. This silo's security gate is 547 feet from the road. Please respect private property and observe these sites from the road. Aside from its use as a laboratory for the school's astronomy program, the site has been used for storage, research and experimentation. Initially operating both Nike Ajax and Hercules but later on only Nike Hercules, the Norwegian Nikes were only conventional armed with the T-45 High Explosive warhead. Belmont Harbors site is now a grassy area on the lakefront, as is the old Promontory Point site. out. Today's W78 warheads are 23 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It was inactivated on 1 Oct 1980, declared excess on 15 Dec 1980, then reactivated on 12 May 1981 and remained in use until the closure of Loring Air Force Base in 1995. Still behind locked gate and fenced. full-screen. The MAF's are also a target. The site fired Nike missiles at potentially incoming jets as part of the Project Nike. You can exit out of full screen by pressing the Escape key or clicking the control in the upper righthand corner of the display. We depend on ad revenue to craft and curate stories about the worlds hidden wonders. Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) C-80DC established at Arlington Heights AI, IL in 1960 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. . The radar site ceased all operations on 15 August 1962. The buildings are all new; the motor pool, up a rise slightly, has a couple of older structures, but the place otherwise has been cleaned off. Redeveloped into commercial/industrial site near NW corner of 35th Avenue and Grant Street. Buildings appear in excellent condition.381723N 0895651W / 38.28972N 89.94750W / 38.28972; -89.94750 (SL-40-CS), 381611N 0895700W / 38.26972N 89.95000W / 38.26972; -89.95000 (SL-40-LS). Property given to North Allegheny School District. Now well-preserved in private ownership. Missile Launching site converted to a private residence (including old missile silos) on Ind. Off Nike Road. Site at end of Adrian Drive. The USAF radar site at Murphy Dome AFS, AK (F-2) was shared with the Army for Nike missile-defense system. Although silos are unattended, they are monitored with video and other We are the leader in this niche. Redeveloped into Howard Cassidy Park. Being used as an auto junkyard, large numbers of junk cars stored in missile firing pads. Everglades National Park, National Park Service. This historic site was built as a precaution but never actually used for its potential purpose. Part of Army Reserve Center, in back of facility. Magazine now an auto junkyard. For example, "2AK/18L-H" means the site contained two Nike Ajax magazines (A), located above ground (K), with eight launchers (8L) being converted to Nike Hercules (H). A battery of Nike missiles was installed at Belmont Harbor in the early 1950s. Army ownership on Ft Wainwright property, The site is overgrown with vegetation, Nike launch buildings are relatively intact. One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States. Now into multiple-family housing. The first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) silos arrived on the Great Plains in 1959 when Atlas sites were constructed in Wyoming. Raymond Central High School some buildings intact but site greatly modified for school. This is the entrance to the 341st Missile Wing, 490th Missile Squadron M-01 in Monroe, Montana off of Concrete launcher foundations partially intact, Microwave/Communication Facility. Underground single-magazine intact, no buildings, appears abandoned. Most buildings are still there, launch magazines filled in, concrete pads obliterated. Currently used as the Rod & Gun Club and the 35th Infantry Division (Mech) motor pool/maintenance facility. This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets. The units were HHB and B/75th (11/54-9/58), HHB and B/3/562nd (9/58-6/60) and MDArNG B/3/70th (6/60-3/63). LC buildings along Staley road still in use. Redeveloped area in northern tip of airport now has a general aviation hangar, parking lot and ramp area for aircraft parking. Was an Unusual Salvador Dal Painting Actually His? Installation started in late 1959 [1] after the United States Army had purchased 44 acres (18 ha).

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