Nike missile locations | Maine

Nike Missile Sites in Maine

Find Nike sites in Maine 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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1Defense areas

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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.

Loring AFB Defense Area

4 sites in this inventory

Defense-area history
L-58

Caribou

Service: Sep 1957 - Jun 1966

Missile type and source-listed site notes
Original missile configuration

Nike 1B, 2C/18H, 30A/12L-U

IFC condition / owner, legacy note

FDS

Launch condition / owner, legacy note

FDS

L-13

Caswell

Service: Sep 1957 - Jun 1966

Missile type and source-listed site notes
Original missile configuration

Nike 2C, 1B/18H, 30A/10L-U

IFC condition / owner, legacy note

FDS

Launch condition / owner, legacy note

FDS

L-85

Conner

Service: Sep 1957 - Jun 1966

Missile type and source-listed site notes
Original missile configuration

Nike 1B, 2C/30A/12L-A

IFC condition / owner, legacy note

FDS

Launch condition / owner, legacy note

FDS

L-31

Limestone

Service: Sep 1957 - Sep 1958

Missile type and source-listed site notes
Original missile configuration

Nike 1B, 2C/30A/12L-A

IFC condition / owner, legacy note

FDS

Launch condition / owner, legacy note

FDS

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).