N-52 Nike Command Site (Chesapeake, Virginia)
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Virginia /
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Chesapeake, Virginia /
Minuteman Drive
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World / United States / Virginia
military, Cold War 1947-1991, nikemissile, closed / former military, missile launch facility, alternative education
This site housed the radar to guide the Nike missile fired from the nearby launch site. The guard shack can be seen at the bottom left hand corner of the box. You can still see where the radar used to be at the upper right hand side of the box. A concrete path leads out to the location. Also, at the bottom right, several concrete pads arranged in a tripod configuration show another radar location.
More information: ed-thelen.org/loc-v.html#Virginia
Was also the site of the Chesapeake Alternative School till 2009
More information: ed-thelen.org/loc-v.html#Virginia
Was also the site of the Chesapeake Alternative School till 2009
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 36°41'58"N 76°20'45"W
- Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Fentress (NFE/KNFE) 16 km
- Naval Station Norfolk (NGU/KNGU) 29 km
- Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek 29 km
- Norfolk, Virginia 30 km
- Naval Air Station Oceana (NTU/KNTU) 30 km
- Battle of Hampton Roads 35 km
- Naval Air Station Oceana - Dam Neck Annex 35 km
- Joint Expeditionary Base Fort Story 37 km
- Langley Air Force Base (LFI/KLFI) 45 km
- Fort Eustis 59 km
- Creekwood 3.7 km
- Chesapeake Regional Airport (KCPK/CPK) 4.3 km
- Deep Creek 4.3 km
- Cahoon Plantation 4.7 km
- Las Gaviotas 5.7 km
- Pleasant Grove 8.4 km
- Dover Naval Outlying Landing Field (abandoned) 11 km
- Lake Drummond 15 km
- Washington 16 km
- Great Dismal Swamp 17 km