Nike missile locations | Texas
Nike Missile Sites in Texas
Find Nike sites in Texas 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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Bergstrom Defense Area
2 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.
Austin (WNW)
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 3AG/12H/12L-H
Intact, TXArNG 111th Support Group
Firing Range
Elroy (SE)
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 3AG/12H/12L-H
Intact, Private ownership
Partially Intact, Private ownership
Dallas Fort Worth Defense Area
4 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.
Alvarado
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 3D/18H/12L-U
Intact, Private ownership
Intact, Private ownership
Denton (N)
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 3D/18H/12L-U
Intact, Denton Board of Education, Special Education Resource Center
FDS
Fort Wolters
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 3D/18H/12L-U
Intact, TXArNG training
Intact, Small arms storage, firing, and maneuvering range
Terrell (NE)
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 3D/18H/12L-U
Intact, FDS, abandoned
Partially Intact, Terrell FFA, school bus storage/maintenance
Dyess Defense Area
2 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.
Abilene (12 mi SW)
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 3AG/12H/12L-H
FDS
FDS
Fort Phantom Hill (N)
Missile type and source-listed site notes
Nike 3AG/12H/12L-H
Intact, Abilene Independent School District
Intact, Private ownership
Additional source material
Historical notes, maps, coordinates, and links
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).