Whiteman AFB Minuteman Missile Site Coordinates

Whiteman Air Force Base, located in western Missouri, initially had 150 Minuteman I missiles which were in place around the end of 1963. In 1966 Whiteman became the first base to undergo an upgrade to Minuteman II which was completed by October 3 1967. Under the START-I treaty, Whiteman's missiles were phased out and the sites destroyed. The first silo was imploded on December 8 1993 and the last on December 15 1997.

A discussion of Missouri environmental cleanup projects includes Whiteman, see http://www.dnr.mo.gov/pubs/pub2087.pdf (link died, try http://web.archive.org/web/20070415070845/http://www.dnr.mo.gov/pubs/pub2087.pdf).

All of the USGS photographs were taken at some point during destruction or after destruction; in many cases you can see a hole where the silo was, which was an intentional demonstration to Russian satellites that the facility was no longer active. The holes were later filled and graded flat. The Google imagery is newer.

Missile Alert Facility Oscar-1 (O-1) was preserved. I understand tours can be arranged between early April and early October, on the first Tuesday of each month, by contacting the 509th Bomb Wing Public Affairs office by phone at (660) 687-6123 (per http://www.whiteman.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123059736).

http://www.whiteman.af.mil/guide/oscar/oscar.html (link now inactive, though there is a copy at http://web.archive.org/web/20020807225337/http://www.whiteman.af.mil/guide/oscar/oscar.html)
http://www.af.mil/news/airman/0897/oscar.htm though the link died, try http://web.archive.org/web/20080628174237/http://www.af.mil/news/airman/0897/oscar.htm as well as http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123075045.
Scott Murdock visited the museum July 14, 2006, and took lots of photos, see: http://www.airforcebase.net/trips/missouri/missouri.html.

508th SMS 509th SMS 510th SMS 351st MW
(Patch images courtesy of USAFPatches.com. Note that the squadrons were probably Missile Squadrons, not Strategic Missile Squadrons, by the time they were inactivated but I could only find images for the latter).

The people: Whiteman's missiles were manned by the 508th MS (flights A-E, activated May 1 1963, deactivated ???), 509th MS (flights F, I, M-O, activated June 1 1963, deactivated ???), and 510th MS (flights G, H, J-L, activated June 1 1963, deactivated ???), under the 351st MW (activated February 1 1963, deactivated July 31 1995).

Today Whiteman is the home of the B-2 bomber. And their web site doesn't even mention missiles.

References include:

http://www.strategic-air-command.com/bases/Whiteman_AFB.htm History and discussion of Whiteman AFB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteman_afb Wikipedia entry for Whiteman AFB
http://globalsecurity.org/wmd/agency/351mw.htm History of the 351st Missile Wing
http://www.strategic-air-command.com/wings/0351mw.htm Brief history of the 351st
http://www.af.mil/news/Jul1995/n19950731_811.html (link inactive, try http://web.archive.org/web/20011002040332/http://www.af.mil/news/Jul1995/n19950731_811.html) The 351st SMW, the last Minuteman II wing, was inactivated July 31st 1995.
http://www.af.mil/news/Nov1995/n19951106_1228.html (link inactive, try http://web.archive.org/web/20011214160154/http://www.af.mil/news/Nov1995/n19951106_1228.html) M-6 was imploded by Secretary of Defense William Perry and Russian Minister of Defense Gen. Pavel Grachev.
http://www.af.mil/news/Dec1997/n19971222_971628.html (link inactive, try http://web.archive.org/web/20020214164128/http://www.af.mil/news/Dec1997/n19971222_971628.html) The last Minuteman II site, H-11, was destroyed December 15, 1997.
http://www.th-record.com/1997/12-17-97/minute.htm Another discussion of H-11's destruction, but this link died and the Times Herald-Record no longer has archives that go all the way back to the previous century (sarcasm, in fact to them 10 days is all they need to keep). Try: http://web.archive.org/web/20060325091716/http://www.th-record.com/1997/12-17-97/minute.htm.

Each squadron was 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 #1 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 2 through 11 and are connected to the MAF/LCC by the Hardened Intersite Cable System (HICS) which also interconnects flights.

In June of 2004 it was discovered there are ten former launch facilities for sale. Basically all you would get is a fenced and graveled enclosure. The sale is briefly discussed at http://propertydisposal.gsa.gov/Property/PropforSale/ShowProperty.ASP?PropertyID=979 (the link died, try http://web.archive.org/web/20060104053917/http://propertydisposal.gsa.gov/Property/PropforSale/ShowProperty.ASP?PropertyID=979) with a PDF file describing the property in detail, and terms of sale. The sale closing date was July 1 2004. D-10 is one of the sites (a photo of it is on the web site) but I haven't bothered to determine the rest. Some of the terms of sale include an agreement that the buyer will not install a water well, and will not excavate farther than two feet down. For perusal after the sale, I have saved the 44-page description here. In July 2005 I discovered another sale of Whiteman LFs, see http://propertydisposal.gsa.gov/Property/PropforSale/ShowProperty.ASP?PropertyID=1327 (the link died, try http://web.archive.org/web/20060103204937/http://propertydisposal.gsa.gov/Property/PropforSale/ShowProperty.ASP?PropertyID=1327), and I saved the Invitation for Bid here.

An article here discusses groundwater contamination in Kansas but also mentions in passing that a treatment system "is still going strong, cleaning drinking water at a contaminated site near Warrensburg, Mo." But that link died, try http://web.archive.org/web/20070823221512/http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/cepa/pubs/may04/story16.htm. I don't know exactly which site, there are several near Warrensburg.

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

Google Maps 39-04-04  93-26-19 A-1
"Smothered Conscience"

Google Maps 39-07-03  93-22-34 A-2
"The Death of Us"

Google Maps 39-03-46  93-19-25 A-3
"Blind Pony"

Google Maps 39-00-33  93-23-32 A-4
"Take It Away"

Google Maps 38-58-24  93-27-38 A-5
"Burns and Lacerations"

Google Maps 38-57-43  93-35-04 A-6
"Gillam's"

Google Maps 38-59-45  93-40-52 A-7
"My"

Google Maps 39-02-35  93-33-11 A-8
"Lose It"

Google Maps 39-03-09  93-38-14 A-9
"Oddity"

Google Maps 39-07-57  93-37-52 A-10
"Jane's"
Incorrect coordinates (latitude of 39-03-57) were listed here until discovered and corrected 4/26/2010.

Google Maps 39-07-38  93-29-07 A-11
"Black"

Google Maps 38-55-38  93-12-42 B-1
"Military"

Google Maps 39-01-59  93-11-52 B-2
"Save the People"

Google Maps 38-58-06  93-07-33 B-3
"Stay Down"

Google Maps 38-57-23  93-01-55 B-4
"Before You Go"

Google Maps 38-53-29  93-07-34 B-5
"Minard's"

Google Maps 38-51-34  93-12-32 B-6
"Another"

Google Maps 38-46-17  93-13-23 B-7
"Not Well"

Google Maps 38-51-24  93-19-35 B-8
"Huge"

Google Maps 38-54-42  93-18-22 B-9
"We're History"

Google Maps 38-55-31  93-23-46 B-10
"Over the Cliff"

Google Maps 38-59-19  93-16-20 B-11
"All Done"

Google Maps 38-48-00  92-57-05 C-1
"Unpleasant"

Google Maps 38-52-58  92-53-42 C-2
"Anti-property"

Google Maps 38-56-29  92-50-09 C-3
"Lela's"

Google Maps 38-48-47  92-50-47 C-4
"Thomas Eagleton"
Thomas Eagleton was a Missouri senator from 1968 to 1987.

Google Maps 38-44-01  92-51-04 C-5
"Pounce On"

Google Maps 38-43-50  92-56-34 C-6
"Toy"

Google Maps 38-40-35  93-00-02 C-7
"More of the Same"

Google Maps 38-41-28  93-05-09 C-8
"Smith's"

Google Maps 38-45-20  93-07-33 C-9
"Pass the Buck"

Google Maps 38-46-34  93-02-34 C-10
"Animal Rights"

Google Maps 39-00-37  92-57-12 C-11
"Located"

Google Maps 38-36-45  92-47-15 D-1
"Tip Over"

Google Maps 38-40-50  92-46-36 D-2
"Tonnage"

Google Maps 38-42-46  92-40-28 D-3
"Colton"

Google Maps 38-38-28  92-40-47 D-4
"Earl's"

Google Maps 38-27-10  92-43-01 D-5
"Excel"

Google Maps 38-27-38  92-48-26 D-6
"Versed"

Google Maps 38-32-04  92-48-03 D-7
"Fortune"

Google Maps 38-25-58  92-54-51 D-8
"Versatile"

Google Maps 38-26-42  93-01-59 D-9
"Shove It"

Google Maps 38-33-51  92-58-49 D-10
"Hidden"

Google Maps 38-39-32  92-53-01 D-11
"Cause It"

Google Maps 38-33-46  93-06-34 E-1
"Ban It"

Google Maps 38-37-44  93-03-34 E-2
"Flat Creek"

Google Maps 38-30-52  93-02-17 E-3
"Pay It Out"

Google Maps 38-28-20  93-07-55 E-4
"Crock of"

Google Maps 38-26-09  93-13-41 E-5
"Cold"

Google Maps 38-30-34  93-12-11 E-6
"More"

Google Maps 38-33-58  93-18-21 E-7
"Manila"

Google Maps 38-34-37  93-12-11 E-8
"Spring Fork"

Google Maps 38-37-23  93-16-24 E-9
"Sedate It"
Unusually long driveway.

Google Maps 38-42-04  93-20-39 E-10
"Dated"

Google Maps 38-37-44  93-09-12 E-11
"Eat It"

Google Maps 38-28-48  93-26-00 F-1
"Abandon It"

Google Maps 38-37-54  93-22-12 F-2
"Slime"

Google Maps 38-32-12  93-23-04 F-3
"Ill"

Google Maps 38-30-00  93-17-17 F-4
"Exit"

Google Maps 38-26-56  93-20-58 F-5
"Abe's"

Google Maps 38-22-43  93-20-06 F-6
"Presidential Directive"

Google Maps 38-24-26  93-27-17 F-7
"Pale Pinto"

Google Maps 38-19-59  93-32-39 F-8
"Tightwad"

Google Maps 38-26-39  93-31-58 F-9
"D. Brook Bartlett"
D. Brook Bartlett was a judge of the US District Court for western Missouri. I'm not sure what the connection with nuclear deterrence is.

Google Maps 38-33-28  93-31-46 F-10
"Winds of War"

Google Maps 38-36-51  93-28-22 F-11
"Fudge"

Google Maps 38-11-00  93-51-06 G-1
"Sue's"

Google Maps 38-15-10  93-48-50 G-2
"Deepwater"

Google Maps 38-12-18  93-45-36 G-3
"Hot Water"

Google Maps 38-07-10  93-42-28 G-4
"Low Down"

Google Maps 37-59-43  93-41-13 G-5
"Awful"

Google Maps 37-53-35  93-38-29 G-6
"Call for Help"

Google Maps 37-55-07  93-44-18 G-7
"Clark and Mary Beth's"

Google Maps 37-58-25  93-47-07 G-8
"Raygun"

Google Maps 38-07-37  93-54-24 G-9
"Take It"
In the older USGS photo, I just think it's interesting the way the road to the site just disappears. Usually a dead-end road makes an abrupt transition but this one slowly tapers to nothing. In newer Google imagery the road continues south.

Google Maps 38-11-07  93-57-13 G-10
"Zip"

Google Maps 38-14-32  93-54-25 G-11
"William Casey's"

Google Maps 37-51-37  94-04-01 H-1
"No More Cheese"
Immediately southeast from a junk yard, now strangely appropriate.

Google Maps 37-55-08  94-00-28 H-2
"Ruins"

Google Maps 37-57-15  93-52-04 H-3
"Rot"

Google Maps 37-52-39  93-52-13 H-4
"See Saw"

Google Maps 37-51-43  93-56-47 H-5
"Choncho"

Google Maps 37-43-39  93-55-00 H-6
"Marc's"

Google Maps 37-45-58  93-59-04 H-7
"Fill It"

Google Maps 37-46-34  94-04-16 H-8
"Molly's"

Google Maps 37-48-48  94-09-09 H-9
"Mary's"

Google Maps 37-52-07  94-11-54 H-10
"Dead Like"

Google Maps 37-55-03  94-07-18 H-11
"Children's"
This was the last Minuteman II silo to be destroyed, on December 22 1997. See notes at the top of this page.

Google Maps 38-28-49  93-44-57 I-1
"Close It Down"
Just one of those interesting angled MAFs.

Google Maps 38-37-30  93-43-13 I-2
"Shanghai"

Google Maps 38-35-23  93-38-08 I-3
"Tons"

Google Maps 38-31-21  93-39-35 I-4
"Big Mo"

Google Maps 38-30-00  93-35-01 I-5
"No Pal of Mine"

Google Maps 38-26-58  93-40-02 I-6
"Nuclear Free"

Google Maps 38-21-52  93-38-01 I-7
"Crumby"

Google Maps 38-26-32  93-50-01 I-8
"Ladon, Kathy & Erny's"

Google Maps 38-27-35  93-55-57 I-9
"Drudge"

Google Maps 38-36-27  93-48-15 I-10
"Depression"
In the newer Google imagery the upper half of the LF is obliterated.

Google Maps 38-33-12  93-45-31 I-11
"Oppression"

Google Maps 38-08-10  94-06-27 J-1
"Roy's"

Google Maps 38-15-59  94-01-10 J-2
"Wasted"
Interesting the way they had to locate the site, and run the driveway around some sort of hole in the ground.

Google Maps 38-11-34  94-03-28 J-3
"Nobody's"

Google Maps 38-06-29  93-59-53 J-4
"Eve of Destruction"

Google Maps 38-04-27  94-04-11 J-5
"Times Are Changing"

Google Maps 37-59-08  94-02-05 J-6
"Universal Soldier"

Google Maps 37-58-48  94-07-06 J-7
"We Want Our Rights"

Google Maps 38-05-29  94-10-27 J-8
"Sweet Sympathy"
September 17, 2005, for sale by the GSA. See http://www.auctionrp.com/auctions2/default.cfm?action=viewAuction&catId=3299 (oddly, they re-use the same URL for auctions so the current version has nothing to do with this, try the archived 1/1/2006 version at http://web.archive.org/web/20060101181310/http://www.auctionrp.com/auctions2/default.cfm?action=viewAuction&catId=3299). The Invitation for Bid (IFB) is at http://www.auctionrp.com/auctions2/documents/item/ACFB111.pdf. January 3, 2006, I noticed the auction was over as of 12/20/2005. The highest bid was $2,700 by a bidder named "shaka".

Google Maps 38-07-33  94-15-04 J-9
"The Road to Find Out"

Google Maps 38-10-03  94-11-01 J-10
"Underground Railroad"

Google Maps 38-14-01  94-09-07 J-11
"Resistance"

Google Maps 38-21-16  94-27-16 K-1
"George's"

Google Maps 38-25-21  94-27-14 K-2
"Drain"

Google Maps 38-23-47  94-22-51 K-3
"Dump It"

Google Maps 38-20-21  94-20-09 K-4
"Pass It Up"

Google Maps 38-15-41  94-16-02 K-5
"No Business"

Google Maps 38-11-07  94-16-30 K-6
"Colleen's"

Google Maps 38-17-43  94-24-36 K-7
"Ache"

Google Maps 38-05-47  94-20-18 K-8
"For the Rich"

Google Maps 38-12-32  94-23-42 K-9
"Jerry and Joe's"

Google Maps 38-18-10  94-31-48 K-10
"Virgin"

Google Maps 38-23-59  94-31-48 K-11
"Go Far Away"

Google Maps 38-29-56  94-15-10 L-1
"All Sin"

Google Maps 38-34-50  94-13-14 L-2
"Harried"

Google Maps 38-35-07  94-06-06 L-3
"No Tours"

Google Maps 38-35-07  94-00-49 L-4
"Henry's"

Google Maps 38-37-49  93-54-14 L-5
"The lies"

Google Maps 38-31-19  94-08-24 L-6
"No Garden"

Google Maps 38-33-33  93-55-56 L-7
"Air"

Google Maps 38-30-23  94-00-11 L-8
"Itch"

Google Maps 38-26-37  94-18-52 L-9
"No Thank You"

Google Maps 38-29-17  94-30-02 L-10
"Too Bad We Found It"

Google Maps 38-32-35  94-20-58 L-11
"Your Sons"

Google Maps 38-43-30  93-56-40 M-1
"John's"

Google Maps 38-50-10  93-50-11 M-2
"Colon"

Google Maps 38-50-35  93-44-34 M-3
"For the Birds"

Google Maps 38-45-54  93-51-27 M-4
"Brian's"

Google Maps 38-42-08  93-43-02 M-5
"Steve and Judy's"

Google Maps 38-42-26  93-51-21 M-6
"Norm and Nancy's"

Google Maps 38-40-01  94-00-12 M-7
"Sick Bed"

Google Maps 38-41-12  94-06-23 M-8
"Gun"

Google Maps 38-44-11  94-02-46 M-9
"The King's"
Near Kingsville, hence the nickname.

Google Maps 38-47-20  93-59-32 M-10
"The Pits"

Google Maps 38-50-49  93-57-33 M-11
"Vile"

Google Maps 38-58-14  93-53-31 N-1
"Helen and Carl's"

Google Maps 39-04-20  93-53-03 N-2
"Dottie's"

Google Maps 39-07-14  93-43-54 N-3
"Ken's"

Google Maps 39-03-17  93-43-54 N-4
"Hitch"

Google Maps 39-00-16  93-48-51 N-5
"Pruning Hooks"

Google Maps 38-56-16  93-44-15 N-6
"James Richard Sauder"
James Richard Sauder is a peace activist and author. He had a web site, sauderzone.com, which went away in 2006 but it's been archived here: http://web.archive.org/web/20060216043432/http://sauderzone.com.

Google Maps 38-53-50  93-47-49 N-7
"Ear-ache"

Google Maps 38-53-40  93-53-25 N-8
"Blinded"

Google Maps 38-53-49  94-00-47 N-9
"Peter and Paul's"

Google Maps 38-57-38  93-59-02 N-10
"No Life"

Google Maps 39-01-52  93-58-10 N-11
"Martin's"

Google Maps 38-43-14  93-33-57 O-1
"White Man's"
This Missile Alert Facility is actually on Whiteman Air Force base. The full-sized USGS photo shows O-1 near the southwest corner (it is at the center of the Google image), and the training silo a little farther NE. Because of its location on-base it was frequently used for VIP tours, not always appreciated by the alert crews who had to cover or stow classified material. It's now open to public tours, see notes at the top of this page.

Google Maps 38-53-02  93-32-48 O-2
"Lana's"
September 17, 2005, for sale by the GSA. See http://www.auctionrp.com/auctions2/default.cfm?action=viewAuction&catId=3299 (oddly, they re-use the same URL for auctions so the current version has nothing to do with this, try the archived 1/1/2006 version at http://web.archive.org/web/20060101181310/http://www.auctionrp.com/auctions2/default.cfm?action=viewAuction&catId=3299). The Invitation for Bid (IFB) was at http://www.auctionrp.com/auctions2/documents/item/ACFB111.pdf but the link died, try http://web.archive.org/web/20060115093010/http://www.auctionrp.com/auctions2/documents/item/ACFB111.pdf. January 3, 2006, I noticed the auction was over on 12/27/2005. The highest bid was $3,600 by "kermit20".

Google Maps 38-47-54  93-30-02 O-3
"Holly's"

Google Maps 38-49-48  93-24-10 O-4
"The Family"

Google Maps 38-45-07  93-25-35 O-5
"Don't Do It"

Google Maps 38-46-05  93-20-00 O-6
"Twisted, Sightless Wrecks of Men"
One of the more interesting Nuclear Heartland nicknames, especially for the Whiteman sites.

Google Maps 38-40-57  93-26-02 O-7
"Scott's"

Google Maps 38-38-19  93-33-51 O-8
"Soldier Blues"

Google Maps 38-41-18  93-38-19 O-9
"Mindless"

Google Maps 38-48-06  93-36-59 O-10
"Ranger's"

Google Maps 38-52-35  93-39-35 O-11
"Jeff's"

Google Maps 38-43-21  93-33-48 T-12
This is the on-base training Launch Facility (silo). It is a short distance northeast of Missile Alert Facility O-1 which was the only MAF to be constructed on a base (the irregular polygon near the lower-left of the USGS image). One oddity is that it apparently had 4 gates, to allow crews to simulate any one of the 4 possible configurations in the field. Prior to its construction around 1966 or 1967, O-8 was used for training when needed. Since Whiteman now has no active missiles, this facility was apparently destroyed (based on more recent Google Earth images which show only vague traces of it, and the adjacent parking lot has expanded partially into T-12's space). I understand the National Park Service's Rocky Mountain System Support Office (PO Box 25287, Denver CO 80225-0287, as of DEC 96) had produced a Historic American Engineering Record to document T-12 at Whiteman. It's HAER # MO-88, and titled "Whiteman Air Force Base, Minuteman Missile Launch Facility Trainer T-12 (Whiteman AFB Facility 1100)." A relevant URL is http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?pp/hh:@field(TITLE+@od1(Whiteman+Air+Force+Base,+Minuteman+Missile+Launch+Facility+Trainer+T-12,+Northeast+of+Oscar-01+Missile+Alert+Facility,+Knob+Noster+vicinity,+Johnson+County,+MO)) except that link died, so try http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/MO1801/?sid=122c6bb02c4dc65c8cfb947347296228. Although the document has not been digitized, the above link does include 3 pages of drawings and 25 photos.

Google Maps 38-43-30  93-32-20 WSA
Based on appearance, this must be the Weapons Storage Area (WSA). Notice the remnants of old runways criss-crossing just to the west of the WSA and even including the WSA.

Google Maps	39-04-04 93-26-19	A-1 "Smothered Conscience"

Google Maps	39-07-03 93-22-34	A-2 "The Death of Us"

Google Maps	39-03-46 93-19-25	A-3 "Blind Pony"

Google Maps	39-00-33 93-23-32	A-4 "Take It Away"

Google Maps	38-58-24 93-27-38	A-5 "Burns and Lacerations"

Google Maps	38-57-43 93-35-04	A-6 "Gillam's"

Google Maps	38-59-45 93-40-52	A-7 "My"

Google Maps	39-02-35 93-33-11	A-8 "Lose It"

Google Maps	39-03-09 93-38-14	A-9 "Oddity"

Google Maps	39-07-57 93-37-52	A-10 "Jane's"
Incorrect coordinates (latitude of 39-03-57) were listed here until discovered and corrected 4/26/2010.
Google Maps	39-07-38 93-29-07	A-11 "Black"

Google Maps	38-55-38 93-12-42	B-1 "Military"

Google Maps	39-01-59 93-11-52	B-2 "Save the People"

Google Maps	38-58-06 93-07-33	B-3 "Stay Down"

Google Maps	38-57-23 93-01-55	B-4 "Before You Go"

Google Maps	38-53-29 93-07-34	B-5 "Minard's"

Google Maps	38-51-34 93-12-32	B-6 "Another"

Google Maps	38-46-17 93-13-23	B-7 "Not Well"

Google Maps	38-51-24 93-19-35	B-8 "Huge"

Google Maps	38-54-42 93-18-22	B-9 "We're History"

Google Maps	38-55-31 93-23-46	B-10 "Over the Cliff"

Google Maps	38-59-19 93-16-20	B-11 "All Done"

Google Maps	38-48-00 92-57-05	C-1 "Unpleasant"

Google Maps	38-52-58 92-53-42	C-2 "Anti-property"

Google Maps	38-56-29 92-50-09	C-3 "Lela's"

Google Maps	38-48-47 92-50-47	C-4 "Thomas Eagleton"
Thomas Eagleton was a Missouri senator from 1968 to 1987.
Google Maps	38-44-01 92-51-04	C-5 "Pounce On"

Google Maps	38-43-50 92-56-34	C-6 "Toy"

Google Maps	38-40-35 93-00-02	C-7 "More of the Same"

Google Maps	38-41-28 93-05-09	C-8 "Smith's"

Google Maps	38-45-20 93-07-33	C-9 "Pass the Buck"

Google Maps	38-46-34 93-02-34	C-10 "Animal Rights"

Google Maps	39-00-37 92-57-12	C-11 "Located"

Google Maps	38-36-45 92-47-15	D-1 "Tip Over"

Google Maps	38-40-50 92-46-36	D-2 "Tonnage"

Google Maps	38-42-46 92-40-28	D-3 "Colton"

Google Maps	38-38-28 92-40-47	D-4 "Earl's"

Google Maps	38-27-10 92-43-01	D-5 "Excel"

Google Maps	38-27-38 92-48-26	D-6 "Versed"

Google Maps	38-32-04 92-48-03	D-7 "Fortune"

Google Maps	38-25-58 92-54-51	D-8 "Versatile"

Google Maps	38-26-42 93-01-59	D-9 "Shove It"

Google Maps	38-33-51 92-58-49	D-10 "Hidden"

Google Maps	38-39-32 92-53-01	D-11 "Cause It"

Google Maps	38-33-46 93-06-34	E-1 "Ban It"

Google Maps	38-37-44 93-03-34	E-2 "Flat Creek"

Google Maps	38-30-52 93-02-17	E-3 "Pay It Out"

Google Maps	38-28-20 93-07-55	E-4 "Crock of"

Google Maps	38-26-09 93-13-41	E-5 "Cold"

Google Maps	38-30-34 93-12-11	E-6 "More"

Google Maps	38-33-58 93-18-21	E-7 "Manila"

Google Maps	38-34-37 93-12-11	E-8 "Spring Fork"

Google Maps	38-37-23 93-16-24	E-9 "Sedate It"
Unusually long driveway.
Google Maps	38-42-04 93-20-39	E-10 "Dated"

Google Maps	38-37-44 93-09-12	E-11 "Eat It"

Google Maps	38-28-48 93-26-00	F-1 "Abandon It"

Google Maps	38-37-54 93-22-12	F-2 "Slime"

Google Maps	38-32-12 93-23-04	F-3 "Ill"

Google Maps	38-30-00 93-17-17	F-4 "Exit"

Google Maps	38-26-56 93-20-58	F-5 "Abe's"

Google Maps	38-22-43 93-20-06	F-6 "Presidential Directive"

Google Maps	38-24-26 93-27-17	F-7 "Pale Pinto"

Google Maps	38-19-59 93-32-39	F-8 "Tightwad"

Google Maps	38-26-39 93-31-58	F-9 "D. Brook Bartlett"
D. Brook Bartlett was a judge of the US District Court for western Missouri. I'm not sure what the connection with nuclear deterrence is.
Google Maps	38-33-28 93-31-46	F-10 "Winds of War"

Google Maps	38-36-51 93-28-22	F-11 "Fudge"

Google Maps	38-11-00 93-51-06	G-1 "Sue's"

Google Maps	38-15-10 93-48-50	G-2 "Deepwater"

Google Maps	38-12-18 93-45-36	G-3 "Hot Water"

Google Maps	38-07-10 93-42-28	G-4 "Low Down"

Google Maps	37-59-43 93-41-13	G-5 "Awful"

Google Maps	37-53-35 93-38-29	G-6 "Call for Help"

Google Maps	37-55-07 93-44-18	G-7 "Clark and Mary Beth's"

Google Maps	37-58-25 93-47-07	G-8 "Raygun"

Google Maps	38-07-37 93-54-24	G-9 "Take It"
In the older USGS photo, I just think it's interesting the way the road to the site just disappears. Usually a dead-end road makes an abrupt transition but this one slowly tapers to nothing. In newer Google imagery the road continues south.
Google Maps	38-11-07 93-57-13	G-10 "Zip"

Google Maps	38-14-32 93-54-25	G-11 "William Casey's"

Google Maps	37-51-37 94-04-01	H-1 "No More Cheese"
Immediately southeast from a junk yard, now strangely appropriate.
Google Maps	37-55-08 94-00-28	H-2 "Ruins"

Google Maps	37-57-15 93-52-04	H-3 "Rot"

Google Maps	37-52-39 93-52-13	H-4 "See Saw"

Google Maps	37-51-43 93-56-47	H-5 "Choncho"

Google Maps	37-43-39 93-55-00	H-6 "Marc's"

Google Maps	37-45-58 93-59-04	H-7 "Fill It"

Google Maps	37-46-34 94-04-16	H-8 "Molly's"

Google Maps	37-48-48 94-09-09	H-9 "Mary's"

Google Maps	37-52-07 94-11-54	H-10 "Dead Like"

Google Maps	37-55-03 94-07-18	H-11 "Children's"
This was the last Minuteman II silo to be destroyed, on December 22 1997. See notes at the top of this page.

Google Maps	38-28-49 93-44-57	I-1 "Close It Down"
Just one of those interesting angled MAFs.
Google Maps	38-37-30 93-43-13	I-2 "Shanghai"

Google Maps	38-35-23 93-38-08	I-3 "Tons"

Google Maps	38-31-21 93-39-35	I-4 "Big Mo"

Google Maps	38-30-00 93-35-01	I-5 "No Pal of Mine"

Google Maps	38-26-58 93-40-02	I-6 "Nuclear Free"

Google Maps	38-21-52 93-38-01	I-7 "Crumby"

Google Maps	38-26-32 93-50-01	I-8 "Ladon, Kathy & Erny's"

Google Maps	38-27-35 93-55-57	I-9 "Drudge"

Google Maps	38-36-27 93-48-15	I-10 "Depression"
In the newer Google imagery the upper half of the LF is obliterated.
Google Maps	38-33-12 93-45-31	I-11 "Oppression"

Google Maps	38-08-10 94-06-27	J-1 "Roy's"

Google Maps	38-15-59 94-01-10	J-2 "Wasted"
Interesting the way they had to locate the site, and run the driveway around some sort of hole in the ground.
Google Maps	38-11-34 94-03-28	J-3 "Nobody's"

Google Maps	38-06-29 93-59-53	J-4 "Eve of Destruction"

Google Maps	38-04-27 94-04-11	J-5 "Times Are Changing"

Google Maps	37-59-08 94-02-05	J-6 "Universal Soldier"

Google Maps	37-58-48 94-07-06	J-7 "We Want Our Rights"

Google Maps	38-05-29 94-10-27	J-8 "Sweet Sympathy"
September 17, 2005, for sale by the GSA. See http://www.auctionrp.com/auctions2/default.cfm?action=viewAuction&catId=3299 (oddly, they re-use the same URL for auctions so the current version has nothing to do with this, try the archived 1/1/2006 version at http://web.archive.org/web/20060101181310/http://www.auctionrp.com/auctions2/default.cfm?action=viewAuction&catId=3299). The Invitation for Bid (IFB) is at http://www.auctionrp.com/auctions2/documents/item/ACFB111.pdf. January 3, 2006, I noticed the auction was over as of 12/20/2005. The highest bid was $2,700 by a bidder named "shaka".
Google Maps	38-07-33 94-15-04	J-9 "The Road to Find Out"

Google Maps	38-10-03 94-11-01	J-10 "Underground Railroad"

Google Maps	38-14-01 94-09-07	J-11 "Resistance"

Google Maps	38-21-16 94-27-16	K-1 "George's"

Google Maps	38-25-21 94-27-14	K-2 "Drain"

Google Maps	38-23-47 94-22-51	K-3 "Dump It"

Google Maps	38-20-21 94-20-09	K-4 "Pass It Up"

Google Maps	38-15-41 94-16-02	K-5 "No Business"

Google Maps	38-11-07 94-16-30	K-6 "Colleen's"

Google Maps	38-17-43 94-24-36	K-7 "Ache"

Google Maps	38-05-47 94-20-18	K-8 "For the Rich"

Google Maps	38-12-32 94-23-42	K-9 "Jerry and Joe's"

Google Maps	38-18-10 94-31-48	K-10 "Virgin"

Google Maps	38-23-59 94-31-48	K-11 "Go Far Away"

Google Maps	38-29-56 94-15-10	L-1 "All Sin"

Google Maps	38-34-50 94-13-14	L-2 "Harried"

Google Maps	38-35-07 94-06-06	L-3 "No Tours"

Google Maps	38-35-07 94-00-49	L-4 "Henry's"

Google Maps	38-37-49 93-54-14	L-5 "The lies"

Google Maps	38-31-19 94-08-24	L-6 "No Garden"

Google Maps	38-33-33 93-55-56	L-7 "Air"

Google Maps	38-30-23 94-00-11	L-8 "Itch"

Google Maps	38-26-37 94-18-52	L-9 "No Thank You"

Google Maps	38-29-17 94-30-02	L-10 "Too Bad We Found It"

Google Maps	38-32-35 94-20-58	L-11 "Your Sons"

Google Maps	38-43-30 93-56-40	M-1 "John's"

Google Maps	38-50-10 93-50-11	M-2 "Colon"

Google Maps	38-50-35 93-44-34	M-3 "For the Birds"

Google Maps	38-45-54 93-51-27	M-4 "Brian's"

Google Maps	38-42-08 93-43-02	M-5 "Steve and Judy's"

Google Maps	38-42-26 93-51-21	M-6 "Norm and Nancy's"

Google Maps	38-40-01 94-00-12	M-7 "Sick Bed"

Google Maps	38-41-12 94-06-23	M-8 "Gun"

Google Maps	38-44-11 94-02-46	M-9 "The King's"
Near Kingsville, hence the nickname.
Google Maps	38-47-20 93-59-32	M-10 "The Pits"

Google Maps	38-50-49 93-57-33	M-11 "Vile"

Google Maps	38-58-14 93-53-31	N-1 "Helen and Carl's"

Google Maps	39-04-20 93-53-03	N-2 "Dottie's"

Google Maps	39-07-14 93-43-54	N-3 "Ken's"

Google Maps	39-03-17 93-43-54	N-4 "Hitch"

Google Maps	39-00-16 93-48-51	N-5 "Pruning Hooks"

Google Maps	38-56-16 93-44-15	N-6 "James Richard Sauder"
James Richard Sauder is a peace activist and author. He had a web site, sauderzone.com, which went away in 2006 but it's been archived here: http://web.archive.org/web/20060216043432/http://sauderzone.com.
Google Maps	38-53-50 93-47-49	N-7 "Ear-ache"

Google Maps	38-53-40 93-53-25	N-8 "Blinded"

Google Maps	38-53-49 94-00-47	N-9 "Peter and Paul's"

Google Maps	38-57-38 93-59-02	N-10 "No Life"

Google Maps	39-01-52 93-58-10	N-11 "Martin's"

Google Maps	38-43-14 93-33-57	O-1 "White Man's"
This Missile Alert Facility is actually on Whiteman Air Force base. The full-sized USGS photo shows O-1 near the southwest corner (it is at the center of the Google image), and the training silo a little farther NE. Because of its location on-base it was frequently used for VIP tours, not always appreciated by the alert crews who had to cover or stow classified material. It's now open to public tours, see notes at the top of this page.
Google Maps	38-53-02 93-32-48	O-2 "Lana's"
September 17, 2005, for sale by the GSA. See http://www.auctionrp.com/auctions2/default.cfm?action=viewAuction&catId=3299 (oddly, they re-use the same URL for auctions so the current version has nothing to do with this, try the archived 1/1/2006 version at http://web.archive.org/web/20060101181310/http://www.auctionrp.com/auctions2/default.cfm?action=viewAuction&catId=3299). The Invitation for Bid (IFB) was at http://www.auctionrp.com/auctions2/documents/item/ACFB111.pdf but the link died, try http://web.archive.org/web/20060115093010/http://www.auctionrp.com/auctions2/documents/item/ACFB111.pdf. January 3, 2006, I noticed the auction was over on 12/27/2005. The highest bid was $3,600 by "kermit20".
Google Maps	38-47-54 93-30-02	O-3 "Holly's"

Google Maps	38-49-48 93-24-10	O-4 "The Family"

Google Maps	38-45-07 93-25-35	O-5 "Don't Do It"

Google Maps	38-46-05 93-20-00	O-6 "Twisted, Sightless Wrecks of Men"
One of the more interesting Nuclear Heartland nicknames, especially for the Whiteman sites.
Google Maps	38-40-57 93-26-02	O-7 "Scott's"

Google Maps	38-38-19 93-33-51	O-8 "Soldier Blues"

Google Maps	38-41-18 93-38-19	O-9 "Mindless"

Google Maps	38-48-06 93-36-59	O-10 "Ranger's"

Google Maps	38-52-35 93-39-35	O-11 "Jeff's"

Google Maps	38-43-21 93-33-48	T-12
This is the on-base training Launch Facility (silo). It is a short distance northeast of Missile Alert Facility O-1 which was the only MAF to be constructed on a base (the irregular polygon near the lower-left of the USGS image). One oddity is that it apparently had 4 gates, to allow crews to simulate any one of the 4 possible configurations in the field. Prior to its construction around 1966 or 1967, O-8 was used for training when needed. Since Whiteman now has no active missiles, this facility was apparently destroyed (based on more recent Google Earth images which show only vague traces of it, and the adjacent parking lot has expanded partially into T-12's space). I understand the National Park Service's Rocky Mountain System Support Office (PO Box 25287, Denver CO 80225-0287, as of DEC 96) had produced a Historic American Engineering Record to document T-12 at Whiteman. It's HAER # MO-88, and titled "Whiteman Air Force Base, Minuteman Missile Launch Facility Trainer T-12 (Whiteman AFB Facility 1100)." A relevant URL is http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?pp/hh:@field(TITLE+@od1(Whiteman+Air+Force+Base,+Minuteman+Missile+Launch+Facility+Trainer+T-12,+Northeast+of+Oscar-01+Missile+Alert+Facility,+Knob+Noster+vicinity,+Johnson+County,+MO)) except that link died, so try http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/MO1801/?sid=122c6bb02c4dc65c8cfb947347296228. Although the document has not been digitized, the above link does include 3 pages of drawings and 25 photos.
Google Maps	38-43-30 93-32-20	WSA
Based on appearance, this must be the Weapons Storage Area (WSA). Notice the remnants of old runways criss-crossing just to the west of the WSA and even including the WSA.