Nike missile locations | Kansas
Nike Missile Sites in Kansas
Find Nike sites in Kansas by town, site ID, or defense area. Browse the original service dates and site notes, with links to existing histories and IFC or launch pages where available.
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Before visiting a site: Condition and ownership notes below come from the prior inventory and have not been verified as current. They are not access guidance. Any coordinates in the additional source material are source-listed points, not surveyed property boundaries.
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Kansas City Defense Area
2 sites in this inventory
Gardner (2 mi S)
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 3D/18H/12L-U
Gardner Unified School
FDS
Fort Leavenworth
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 3D/18H/12L-U
DOD, private ownership
Unknown
Schilling AFB Defense Area
2 sites in this inventory
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 3AG
Site was never operational, Private ownersip, current condition unknown
Site was never operational, Private ownership, current condition unknown
Smolan (5 mi SSW)
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike
Site was never operational, Private ownership, current condition unknown
Site was never operational. Private ownership, current condition unknown
Additional source material
Historical notes, maps, coordinates, and links
There are additional locations that cover the Kansas City Area in Missouri.
Reading the original records
Missile codes and source context
Nike missile and launcher code key
The original inventory uses compact storage and launcher codes, retained in each site's details.
- Storage
- C: Ajax only, original design. B: Ajax or Hercules, with some elevators modified for Hercules. D: either type, with increased magazine access.
- Launcher
- A: Ajax; AA: double Ajax; AG: above ground; H: Hercules; L: launcher; K: unofficial Alaskan above-ground designation; U: universal; UA: half universal and half Ajax; UU: double universal.
Launcher conversions to Hercules appear in parentheses in the original code, for example (8L-H).