Nike missile locations | Missouri
Nike Missile Sites in Missouri
Find Nike sites in Missouri 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
Lawson
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 3D/18H/12L-U
Lawson Schools
Lawson Schools
Pleasant Hill
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 3D/18H/12L-U
Private ownershipe, development company
Department of Defense
Saint Louis Defense Area
1 sites in this inventory
Pacific (5 mi S)
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 3D/18H/12L-U
Private ownership
Nike School
Additional source material
Historical notes, maps, coordinates, and links
Note that there are additional locations that cover the Saint Louis area in Illinois.
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).