Nike missile locations | Nebraska
Nike Missile Sites in Nebraska
Find Nike sites in Nebraska 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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Offutt Defense Area
1 sites in this inventory
Cedar Creek
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 3AG/12H/12L-H
FDS
FDS
Lincoln Defense Area
2 sites in this inventory
Ceresco/Davey
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 3AG/12H/12L-H
High School
Abandoned
Crete
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 3AG/12H/18L-H
Housing Development
Private ownership
Additional source material
Historical notes, maps, coordinates, and links
Note that there is an additional site that covered Offutt AFB in Iowa.
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).