Demolition Area
USA /
California /
Beckwourth /
World
/ USA
/ California
/ Beckwourth
World / United States / California
This place was used as a demolition area in 1960-1970.
The long narrow marks on the ground are the burn scars where missiles were laid, before their solid fuel motor casings were split open end-to-end by an explosive shaped-charge. With the solid-fuel exposed to the air they could then be safely burned to dispose of them.
Declassified files in The National Archives, London, disclose that Polaris A3T missile motors from British stocks were disposed of here in the mid-1980's.
The long narrow marks on the ground are the burn scars where missiles were laid, before their solid fuel motor casings were split open end-to-end by an explosive shaped-charge. With the solid-fuel exposed to the air they could then be safely burned to dispose of them.
Declassified files in The National Archives, London, disclose that Polaris A3T missile motors from British stocks were disposed of here in the mid-1980's.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 40°14'30"N 120°9'27"W
- Area Yellow. 2.9 km
- Warehouses 10 km
- 3 Bar A (139-250-25-11) 19 km
- 3 Bar A (139-240-04-11) 20 km
- 3 Bar A (141-030-02-11) 21 km
- 3 Bar A (141-040-17-11) 22 km
- Flanigan, Nevada 24 km
- Mountain Meadow Ranch 39 km
- Saw Mill 72 km
- Grasshopper Valley Lake 83 km
- Sierra Army Depot 4.8 km
- Military Explosives Storage 6.3 km
- Honey Lake 13 km
- Former Frenchman Creek Camp (site) 41 km
- Smoke Creek Desert 54 km
- Sutcliffe, Nevada 56 km
- Pyramid Lake 57 km
- Eagle Lake 67 km
- Mountain Meadow Reservoir 69 km
- Grasshopper Valley Lake 78 km