Nike missile locations | Rhode Island
Nike Missile Sites in Rhode Island
Find Nike sites in Rhode Island 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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Providence Defense Area
5 sites in this inventory
It shows the defense area at a glance; use the individual IFC and launch links for each site's component record.
Bristol
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 1B, 2C/18H, 30A/10L-U
Brown University
Roger Williams College
Coventry
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 1B, 2C/30A/12L-A
RIANG, 281st, 282d Combat Communications Squadrons
General Services Administration
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 1B, 2C/30A/12L-A
Foster/Gloucester Regional School District
State of Rhode Island, State Police Training Center
North Kingston/ Davisville
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 1B, 2C/30A/12L-A
North Kingston Parks and Recreation Department
RIANG installation
North Smithfield/ Foster
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 1B, 2C/18H, 30A/11L-U, (10L-H)
RIANG/USAFR Center
US Army
Additional source material
Historical notes, maps, coordinates, and links
Additional sites that covered the Providence area were located in Massachusetts.
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).