Mustard Gas Disposal Area
USA /
Nevada /
Hawthorne /
World
/ USA
/ Nevada
/ Hawthorne
World / United States / Nevada
Second World War 1939-1945, military, recovery of waste
This disposal site was used between 1940 and 1946 for the destruction of munitions containing mustard, phosgene, and cyanogen chloride gas.
ndep.nv.gov/hwad/hwada05.htm
ndep.nv.gov/hwad/hwada05.htm
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 38°30'30"N 118°31'25"W
- Hawthorne Army Depot - Southern Magazines 11 km
- Babbitt (site) 12 km
- Hawthorne Army Depot - Central Magazines 13 km
- Hawthorne Army Depot - Headquarters 14 km
- Hawthorne Army Depot - Northern Magazines 23 km
- Hawthorne Army Depot 34 km
- Airport Sandflat 90 km
- Manzanar National Historic Site 200 km
- Mount Campbell Rifle Range (site) 216 km
- Howard Auxiliary Field (site) 240 km
- Sweetwater Ranch Company Whisky Flat Unit 20 km
- Whisky Flat 23 km
- Borealis Mine 24 km
- Cottonwood Canyon 26 km
- Garfield Flat 26 km
- Walker Lake 27 km
- Mud Spring Lava 28 km
- Alkali Valley 32 km
- Long Valley 34 km
- Walker River Indian Reservation 56 km