Grand Forks AFB Minuteman Missile Site Coordinates

Grand Forks Air Force Base, located in eastern North Dakota, initially had 150 Minuteman II missiles. These were in place by the end of 1966 and upgraded to Minuteman III between 1972 and 1973. In 1995 it was decided to retire the Grand Forks missiles; the last missile was pulled from its silo in June 1998. Destruction of silos and control facilities began in October 1999, as part of the reduction in arms from 1,000 land-based ICBMs to 550 land-based ICBMs, per international treaties. See http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/cepa/pubs/may00/may00story15.htm which points out these were "harder" sites than previous ones that had been destroyed. The first Grand Forks silo destroyed was A-04 on October 6 1999, see http://www.af.mil/news/Oct1999/n19991015_991911.html (which is now a broken link, see instead http://web.archive.org/web/20020203042009/http://www.af.mil/news/Oct1999/n19991015_991911.html). The target completion date was November 2001 and in fact the last silo (H-22) was imploded August 24 2001 (the last US silo destroyed per the 1991 START treaty).

http://www.angelfire.com/tx/missile2 is a map of the area, from the book "Nuclear Heartland."

Sites O-0 (Oscar-zero, a Launch Control Facility) and N-33 may be preserved as historic sites. There have been several articles in the past but they tend to disappear from the web:

More has been written about preserving O-0 and N-33 in late 2006. The state historical society launched a campaign to raise one million dollars to turn these facilities into historical sites, and they face a December 2007 deadline. Note that access to the Grand Forks Herald requires registration to view articles for the first 7 days, after that they charge money. However, the measure to allocate $250,000 failed to pass the ND House of Representatives. The historical society has not yet given up trying (February 10, 2007). In the March, 2008 issue of the AAFM Newsletter here, it is stated that the state of North Dakota took over the sites.

Although Ellsworth AFB successfully test fired a missile from their N-2 launch facility (with 7 seconds of propellant), under the name "Long Life", one of the Grand Forks sites was to be used for "Long Life II" but the press called it "Long Laugh II" when it failed to launch on two attempts due to excessive safety features (October 19 1966, and October 28 1966). I believe this is the same site that Nuclear Heartland calls "Fizzle Missile" (H-24). "Giant Boost" failed for similar reasons in August 1968 and was called "Giant Bust" by the media, but it isn't clear if the same site was used. See:

Every GFAFB Launch Facility has a "secondary enclosure" attached to it, as in the example far left (D-31). It's believed this is called the "dipole field" or the Medium Frequency antenna field and provides communication to the LFs via a buried antenna, in addition to a Hardened Intersite Cable System (HICS) which is used alone in most other areas (i.e. sites that were built for Minuteman I). These also appear at Malmstrom's flights P through T which are their built-for-Minuteman-II ("Deuce") sites. Another difference is that the HICS wasn't as densely interconnected on Deuce sites compared to Boeing sites, but is supposed to be buried deeper. In the case of site F0 (second photo), soil conditions have deteriorated in a way that it appears to be possible to deduce some of the underground structure.

446th MS 447th MS 448th MS 321st MW 321st SMW
(Patch images courtesy of USAFPatches.com)

The people: Grand Forks' Minuteman missiles were staffed by the 446th (flights A-E, activated July 1 1965, deactivated ???), 447th (flights F-J, activated February 1 1965, deactivated ???), and 448th (flights K-O, activated September 15 1965, deactivated ???) Missile Squadrons, all under the 321st Missile Wing (activated November 1 1964, deactivated ???). Other resources:

Each squadron is responsible for 5 flights of 10 missiles each, or 50 missiles. Sites are designated by flight, using one letter of the alphabet, followed by a number. The first site in each flight is #0 and designates the Missile Alert Facility (MAF) which consists of an above-ground structure plus an underground Launch Control Center (LCC) staffed by two officers. The Launch Facilities (LFs, i.e. missile silos) are numbered 1 through 10, 11 through 20, and so on up to 50. Numbering for LFs restarts at 1 for the next squadron. LFs are connected to the MAF/LCC by the Hardened Intersite Cable System (HICS) and medium frequency radio.

For humor, I also include the nicknames given in Nuclear Heartland.


Terraserver 		48-49-17  98-30-48
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		A-0
"Criminal Intent"

Terraserver 		48-57-39  98-28-18
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		A-1
"Pierre Trudeau's"

Terraserver 		48-53-56  98-26-03
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		A-2
"Physicist's Dream"

Terraserver 		48-57-59  98-21-42
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		A-3
"Maple Leaf"

Terraserver 		48-53-39  98-19-40
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		A-4
"Leo Laukki"
Leo Laukki was a Finnish-American around 1910 who was a radical leftist, even suporting the idea of sabotage, which he later reversed.

Terraserver 		48-49-49  98-22-06
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		A-5
"Selma Jokela McCone"
Another Finnish-American I think, but extremely obscure. I found one reference ""Three Proponents of Women's Rights in the Finnish-American Labor Movement from 1910-1930: Selma Jokela McCone, Maiju Nurmi and Helmi Mattson" written by Hilja Karvonen (1977) and apparently printed in "For the Common Good: Finnish Immigrants and the Radical Response to Industrial America" edited by Michael Karni and Douglas Ollila (1977), published by the Tyomies Society, Superior, Wisconsin (see http://list.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9602a&L=aejmc&F=&S=&P=2580).

Terraserver 		48-45-49  98-26-31
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		A-6
"Good Riddance"

Terraserver 		48-45-34  98-33-27
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		A-7
"Taavi Taino"
Taavi Taino was a central representative of Finnish Social Democracy in the early 20th century.

Terraserver 		48-58-35  98-43-11
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		A-8
"Knows No Boundaries"

Terraserver 		48-57-07  98-37-56
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		A-9
"Helmi Mattson"
Unusually distinct features in the photo, also nice patterns in the nearby fields. Helmi Mattson was a Finnish-born author who lived in the USA, but the relevance to nuclear deterrence is unclear to me.

Terraserver 		48-53-37  98-33-07
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		A-10
"Babylon Falling Down"

Terraserver 		48-45-49  98-11-36
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		B-0
"Tax Payers'"

Terraserver 		48-54-29  98-08-20
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		B-11
"Frost-Fire"

Terraserver 		48-49-54  98-08-35
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		B-12
"Rude"

Terraserver 		48-49-02  98-00-15
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		B-13
"Damage Done"

Terraserver 		48-45-48  98-05-08
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		B-14
"Anniversary Rock"

Terraserver 		48-43-38  97-58-59
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		B-15
"Time Bomb"

Terraserver 		48-41-50  98-08-28
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		B-16
"Puck's Breath"

Terraserver 		48-41-11  98-15-25
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		B-17
"The Big Lie"

Terraserver 		48-46-40  98-18-09
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		B-18
"Wild Thistle"

Terraserver 		48-50-10  98-15-31
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		B-19
"Potato Bud"

Terraserver 		48-56-50  98-15-04
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		B-20
"Bitter-Root"

Terraserver 		48-32-43  97-57-49
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		C-0
"Heart of Darkness"

Terraserver 		48-32-43  97-50-00
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		C-21
"Agassiz's Agony"

Terraserver 		48-29-32  97-43-43
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		C-22
"Prairie Kali"

Terraserver 		48-25-25  97-44-05
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		C-23
"Kissinger's Remorse"
Trees nearby, a little unusual. They normally try to keep the landscape clean this close.

Terraserver 		48-28-02  97-57-25
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		C-24
"Naked Lunch"
Again, nearby trees but not as close as C-23.

Terraserver 		48-24-15  98-00-38
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		C-25
"Mr. Kurtz"

Terraserver 		48-24-39  98-07-46
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		C-26
"Flower of Evil"

Terraserver 		48-29-16  98-05-51
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		C-27
"Ghost Dance"

Terraserver 		48-32-43  98-04-16
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		C-28
"Voices Catching Up"

Terraserver 		48-36-24  98-08-28
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		C-29
"Paradise Lost"

Terraserver 		48-39-15  98-02-00
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		C-30
"Mim's Roots"

Terraserver 		48-33-14  98-22-50
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		D-0
"Every Day's Fear"
About 2.7 miles NNE of D-0 is the Stanley R. Mickelson Safeguard Complex which is the only deployed Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) site in the US. Click on the color photo for more details on ABM systems and this facility in particular.

Terraserver 		48-42-32  98-21-30
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		D-31
"Just War"

Terraserver 		48-38-06  98-21-31
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		D-32
"A.B. Makela"

Terraserver 		48-35-46  98-16-18
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		D-33
"Scoundrel's Last Refuge"

Terraserver 		48-28-58  98-12-22
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		D-34
"Temporary Madness"

Terraserver 		48-29-17  98-19-15
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		D-35
"Reality of Power"

Terraserver 		48-24-55  98-18-21
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		D-36
"Antero Tanner"

Terraserver 		48-28-30  98-26-43
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		D-37
"Gravy Sucking"

Terraserver 		48-38-00  98-35-50
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		D-38
"Blind Patriotism"

Terraserver 		48-37-09  98-28-25
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		D-39
"Prairie Ransom"

Terraserver 		48-41-37  98-30-37
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		D-40
"Martin Hendrickson"

Terraserver 		48-29-01  98-41-46
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		E-0
"Chains of Command"
A blogger named Julie, who lives near E-0, has written a nice entry on her memories of E-0 and the current condition of the MAF. See http://www.loneprairie.net/lp_blog/blog.htm and scroll down to 11.22.2006 which also includes a very nice entry on the Mickelsen Safeguard Complex. (Now (11/2007) it appears to have scrolled away, but click on the "Military" button).

Terraserver 		48-33-49  98-38-51
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		E-41
"Burning Earth"

Terraserver 		48-32-57  98-30-36
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		E-42
"Broken Promise"

Terraserver 		48-29-17  98-35-15
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		E-43
"Trail of Tears"

Terraserver 		48-24-33  98-37-11
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		E-44
"Poison Payload"

Terraserver 		48-24-41  98-43-15
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		E-45
"Jackboot"

Terraserver 		48-24-42  98-49-45
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		E-46
"Peace School"

Terraserver 		48-27-19  98-56-07
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		E-47
"Banal"

Terraserver 		48-29-02  98-49-36
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		E-48
"Hide the Sun"

Terraserver 		48-33-13  98-52-46
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		E-49
"Alone with Fear"

Terraserver 		48-32-46  98-45-38
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		E-50
"Machine Money"

Terraserver 		48-17-27  98-13-52
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		F-0
"Forbidden Orders"

Terraserver 		48-22-18  98-13-25
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		F-1
"Planetary Slaughterhouse"

Terraserver 		48-18-46  98-05-23
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		F-2
"Disarming D. Fields"

Terraserver 		48-18-31  97-58-55
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		F-3
"Nuclear Winter"

Terraserver 		48-18-32  97-52-18
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		F-4
"Dakota's Denial"

Terraserver 		48-13-07  97-51-49
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		F-5
"Fearful Folly"

Terraserver 		48-14-40  98-07-23
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		F-6
"Forest River"

Terraserver 		48-13-35  98-18-02
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		F-7
"Brocket's Rocket"

Terraserver 		48-16-47  98-22-33
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		F-8
"Megadeath"
Siloman's list incorrectly identified this as F-58.

Terraserver 		48-21-58  98-32-00
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		F-9
"Nuclear Wheat"
Siloman's list incorrectly identified this as F-59.

Terraserver 		48-21-47  98-23-07
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		F-10
"The End"
Siloman's list incorrectly identified this as F-60.

Terraserver 		48-09-13  97-52-05
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		G-0
"Karma"

Terraserver 		48-20-46  97-45-19
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		G-11
"Spirit of Poison"

Terraserver 		48-21-23  97-38-50
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		G-12
"Prairie Puzzle"

Terraserver 		48-16-47  97-43-38
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		G-13
"Farm Crisis"
Looks like a farmhouse shares the driveway.

Terraserver 		48-17-20  97-37-01
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		G-14
"Breadbasket"
Long driveway.

Terraserver 		48-12-54  97-37-09
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		G-15
"Soo Line"
The Soo Line is the name of a railroad though its relevance isn't clear here except some tracks run nearby, to the north.

Terraserver 		48-07-54  97-38-26
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		G-16
"Blackout"
Unusual to see a hedge so close to a site.

Terraserver 		48-00-28  97-48-53
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		G-17
"Turtle River"

Terraserver 		48-04-33  97-51-27
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		G-18
"Eisenhower's Sorrow"

Terraserver 		48-00-11  97-54-49
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		G-19
"Thumbing a Ride"

Terraserver 		48-09-48  97-58-25
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		G-20
"Rachel Wept"

Terraserver 		48-05-46  98-06-58
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		H-0
"Unfunny"

Terraserver 		48-09-49  98-05-01
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		H-21
"Cancer Cavities"

Terraserver 		48-05-09  97-59-13
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		H-22
"TV Tower"

Terraserver 		48-01-49  98-03-05
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		H-23
"Winds of Hades"

Terraserver 		47-57-35  98-05-16
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		H-24
"Fizzle"
"Fizzle Missile" was the site of an attempted demonstration launch in August 1968 under the code name "Giant Boost". It was re-labeled "Giant Bust" by the press when the attempt failed. This may or may not be the same site where attempts were made on October 19 and October 28 1966 under the code name "Long Life II" which also failed and was dubbed "Long Laugh II".

Terraserver 		48-01-07  98-09-51
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		H-25
"Broken Lid"

Terraserver 		47-57-34  98-14-39
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		H-26
"Gopher"

Terraserver 		48-04-36  98-13-26
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		H-27
"Jammed Hatch"

Terraserver 		48-04-36  98-20-21
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		H-28
"Scrambled Radar"

Terraserver 		48-09-14  98-18-07
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		H-29
"Loken"

Terraserver 		48-10-57  98-13-07
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		H-30
"Freeze"

Terraserver 		47-50-54  98-17-53
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		I-0
"Susie-Lee-Mary 2"

Terraserver 		47-56-37  97-59-12
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		I-31
"Daddy Warbucks"

Terraserver 		47-56-20  97-52-44
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		I-32
"County Line"

Terraserver 		47-53-15  98-03-02
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		I-33
"Old Barb"
One of the rare cases of Nuclear Heartland getting their directions wrong. They list it east of highway 32, it's actually to the west.

Terraserver 		47-54-23  97-47-09
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		I-34
"Peaceless"

Terraserver 		47-50-02  98-09-28
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		I-35
"McMissile"
McMissile because it's near a town named McVille.

Terraserver 		47-46-18  98-24-03
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		I-36
"Sheyenne River"

Terraserver 		47-41-58  98-34-40
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		I-37
"Eddy County"

Terraserver 		47-44-31  98-30-55
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		I-38
"Friendly Farm"

Terraserver 		47-49-47  98-29-56
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		I-39
"Tons of Turkeys"

Terraserver 		47-55-27  98-20-13
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		I-40
"Stump Lake"

Terraserver 		48-09-14  98-27-03
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		J-0
"Beatrice"

Terraserver 		48-13-34  98-27-03
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		J-41
"Ophelia"

Terraserver 		48-04-05  98-26-49
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		J-42
"Titania"
A clear example of a road dead-ending at a site. Siloman's list incorrectly stated the latitude as 48-05-05, incorrect by one minute (probably just a typo).

Terraserver 		47-59-09  98-31-20
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		J-43
"Perdita"

Terraserver 		48-02-31  98-35-31
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		J-44
"Cleopatra"

Terraserver 		48-07-45  98-33-19
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		J-45
"Desdemona"

Terraserver 		48-06-21  98-39-48
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		J-46
"Cordelia"
A non-straight driveway, possibly due to terrain.

Terraserver 		48-11-01  98-39-25
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		J-47
"Katherina"

Terraserver 		48-12-42  98-33-18
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		J-48
"Rosalind"

Terraserver 		48-17-54  98-36-14
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		J-49
"Miranda"

Terraserver 		48-17-55  98-28-43
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		J-50
"Olivia"

Terraserver 		47-37-00  97-42-16
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		K-0
"Charon's Ferry"

Terraserver 		47-41-05  97-39-53
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		K-1
"Wish it Away"

Terraserver 		47-34-27  97-47-22
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		K-2
"Vishnhu's Heater"

Terraserver 		47-39-25  97-52-37
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		K-3
"Valkyrie Roulette"
Notice in the full-size photo, the area to the west of the LF was taken at a different time and the two photos merged. This is quite common on Terraserver but in this case was interesting because of the pattern of plowing on the west (9/25/1997) that is completely absent to the east (9/9/1997). This suggests harvesting occured between those two dates.

Terraserver 		47-43-41  97-54-50
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		K-4
"Attila's Fantasy"

Terraserver 		47-48-25  97-59-34
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		K-5
"Prairie's Bane"

Terraserver 		47-41-04  97-46-13
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		K-6
"Golgotha"

Terraserver 		47-52-22  97-56-59
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		K-7
"Caspar W.'s Ghost"

Terraserver 		47-45-41  97-49-26
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		K-8
"Fruit of Acedia"

Terraserver 		47-49-13  97-45-00
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		K-9
"Harry Truman's"

Terraserver 		47-44-48  97-43-04
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		K-10
"Maginot's Folly"

Terraserver 		47-20-03  97-56-25
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		L-0
"Savage Lagoon"

Terraserver 		47-28-57  97-47-54
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		L-11
"A Fine and Private Place"

Terraserver 		47-31-23  97-42-17
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		L-12
"Cancer"

Terraserver 		47-23-45  97-49-25
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		L-13
"Peace Garden State"

Terraserver 		47-26-10  97-43-35
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		L-14
"Wylie"

Terraserver 		47-28-43  97-37-33
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		L-15
"Dumbfounded"

Terraserver 		47-19-41  97-49-42
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		L-16
"Prairie Rose"

Terraserver 		47-15-25  97-47-40
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		L-17
"Easy Come, Easy Go"

Terraserver 		47-15-34  97-54-02
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		L-18
"Shirley"
The nickname is cute, since a nearby town is called Luverne.

Terraserver 		47-10-49  97-53-36
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		L-19
"C'est Fini"

Terraserver 		47-24-56  97-58-03
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		L-20
"All Mine"

Terraserver 		47-16-17  97-41-18
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		M-0
"Nervous Energy"

Terraserver 		46-59-06  97-33-17
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		M-21
"J. Denby Mercenary"

Terraserver 		47-12-00  97-40-55
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		M-22
"Prairie Road"
At http://www.clui.org/clui_4_1/lotl/00f/00f6a.html there is an article about the demolition of North Dakota silos and M-22 in particular. However, the "before" photo is not of a Minuteman silo, but rather is of the Stanley R. Mickelson Safeguard Complex's Spartan missile field (see D-0, above).

Terraserver 		47-00-35  97-41-21
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		M-23
"Homestead"

Terraserver 		46-56-12  97-41-54
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		M-24
"Tower View"
Near Tower City, hence the name.

Terraserver 		46-58-06  97-47-03
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		M-25
"Burning Sage"

Terraserver 		47-02-20  97-47-38
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		M-26
"Meadowlark"

Terraserver 		47-05-49  97-47-50
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		M-27
"Messier's"

Terraserver 		47-02-21  97-53-35
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		M-28
"Golden Wheat"

Terraserver 		47-11-15  97-47-40
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		M-29
"Disarmingly Simple"

Terraserver 		47-06-28  97-55-26
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		M-30
"Eric's"

Terraserver 		47-13-24  98-11-32
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		N-0
"Nuke Ourselves"

Terraserver 		47-37-05  98-03-59
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		N-31
"Valley View"

Terraserver 		47-22-20  98-06-40
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		N-32
"Airport"

Terraserver 		47-26-24  98-03-58
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		N-33
"Consumption"
N-33 may be preserved, see notes at the top of this page.

Terraserver 		47-35-04  97-58-12
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		N-34
"Stupifaction"

Terraserver 		47-30-32  97-58-01
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		N-35
"Big Gold"

Terraserver 		47-17-33  98-04-13
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() 		N-36
"Life Out of Balance"
See also Warren L-9, "Koyaanisqatsi", which is a Hopi Indian word meaning "Life Out of Balance."

Terraserver 		47-13-22  98-02-20
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		N-37
"Summitry"

Terraserver 		47-26-25  98-18-07
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() 		N-38
"Busy Acres"

Terraserver 		47-21-50  98-13-27
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		N-39
"Abominator"

Terraserver 		47-26-26  98-11-38
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		N-40
"Hazard"

Terraserver 		47-29-51  98-07-36
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		O-0
"Double Aught"
O-0 (Oscar-zero) is supposed to be preserved as a historic site, see notes at top of this page.

Terraserver 		47-45-25  98-07-29
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		O-41
"Mintone"

Terraserver 		47-41-06  98-06-02
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		O-42
"West Marshland"

Terraserver 		47-43-59  98-01-40
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		O-43
"Barizoni's Watch"

Terraserver 		47-39-25  97-58-45
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		O-44
"Gray Mourning"

Terraserver 		47-35-06  98-14-49
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		O-45
"Out of Mind"

Terraserver 		47-38-35  98-18-44
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		O-46
"Rock Pile"

Terraserver 		47-43-42  98-19-10
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		O-47
"Six Bin"

Terraserver 		47-42-22  98-13-03
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		O-48
"Mystery"

Terraserver 		47-38-21  98-10-47
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		O-49
"Shelterbelt"

Terraserver 		47-34-08  98-08-15
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		O-50
"Ottawa Church"

Terraserver 		47-56-47  97-22-42
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		T-21
I received email with a very nice description of this area: "The LF trainer at GFAFB was designated T-21. It was destroyed as part of the treaty. We commonly referred to it as the TLF (training launch facility). It contained a mock up of basically what the silo looked inside with a few modifications. The missile in the silo was cosmetically correct, except it was made from concrete. The upper parts of the missle (R/S (reentry system), MGS (missile guidance set), and PSRE (propulsion system rocket engine)) were not concrete. They looked like they should have, except, of course, they were fake and designated for training only or inert.

Just south, south west of the TLF in the terraserver picture was the Missile Group's maintenance building. It contained all of the dispatching teams and support shops. The building to the west of the maintenance building was the vehicle dispatch building. You can see two long white vans in the picture to the north. These, more than likely, were the PT (payload transporters) vans. These vans transported the R/S, MGS, and PSRE to missile sites.

Just west of the TLF by the shadows of the water tower was the training building. Here they trained different career fields on missile maintenance. This building also held a traininer designated T-19. This was a basically a diesel engine, air conditioning trainer.

To the far west (upper left) is a block building. This housed all of the Operations Group side of the house. Capsule crews, and their support stuff was in this building. "

The WSA is just south of the TLF (see below). Just a humorous side-note, look at the shadows from the water tower. There are two, the USGS photographed the left side in the morning and the right side in the afternoon, the splice runs almost directly through the tower.


Terraserver 		47-56-22  97-22-35
? miles ? Grand Forks North Dakota
() 		WSA
The Weapons Storage Area (WSA). It's immediately south of the Minuteman training LF (see above).