Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach (Seal Beach, California)
USA /
California /
Seal Beach /
Seal Beach, California /
Seal Beach Boulevard, 800
World
/ USA
/ California
/ Seal Beach
World / United States / California
arsenal / weapon and ammunition storage, military, United States Navy
800 Seal Beach Boulevard
Seal Beach, Ca 90740
(562) 626-7011
Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach consists of a headquarters command located in Seal Beach, Calif. and detachments located in Concord, Corona, and Fallbrook, Calif. The command exists to provide base operating support to the Navy's ordnance mission. Command and tenant personnel provide munitions receipt, segregation, inspection, maintenance, storage, issue, and assessment services to Navy operating forces and other Department of Defense and homeland security entities. Overall, the command supports the provisioning of missiles, torpedoes, and other ordnance to approximately one-half of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
With the official closure of Concord Naval Weapons Center in northern California, Seal Beach is now the Navy's primary munitions storage and loading facility on the West Coast (with the exception of submarine activities, which take place in Washington State). About 100 ships are loaded and unloaded here every year, either at the wharf on the edge of the base, or at sea, with weapons transported by barge and helicopter. The 5,000 acre base was established in 1944, and contains 127 earthen munitions storage magazines, all of which are in use. Seal Beach is surrounded by military and space related activities, from private companies to federal facilities. Most of the adjacent private weapons, satellite, and aerospace facilities are owned by Boeing, which acquired the McDonnell Douglas plant when it bought that company, and the Rockwell facilities, including the company's former headquarters, when it acquired that company. North of Seal Beach, the Los Alamitos base is the only other major and still active military site in Orange County.
Seal Beach, Ca 90740
(562) 626-7011
Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach consists of a headquarters command located in Seal Beach, Calif. and detachments located in Concord, Corona, and Fallbrook, Calif. The command exists to provide base operating support to the Navy's ordnance mission. Command and tenant personnel provide munitions receipt, segregation, inspection, maintenance, storage, issue, and assessment services to Navy operating forces and other Department of Defense and homeland security entities. Overall, the command supports the provisioning of missiles, torpedoes, and other ordnance to approximately one-half of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
With the official closure of Concord Naval Weapons Center in northern California, Seal Beach is now the Navy's primary munitions storage and loading facility on the West Coast (with the exception of submarine activities, which take place in Washington State). About 100 ships are loaded and unloaded here every year, either at the wharf on the edge of the base, or at sea, with weapons transported by barge and helicopter. The 5,000 acre base was established in 1944, and contains 127 earthen munitions storage magazines, all of which are in use. Seal Beach is surrounded by military and space related activities, from private companies to federal facilities. Most of the adjacent private weapons, satellite, and aerospace facilities are owned by Boeing, which acquired the McDonnell Douglas plant when it bought that company, and the Rockwell facilities, including the company's former headquarters, when it acquired that company. North of Seal Beach, the Los Alamitos base is the only other major and still active military site in Orange County.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_Beach_Naval_Weapons_Station
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 33°45'4"N 118°4'16"W
- Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos 5.6 km
- Santa Ana Army Air Base (site) 16 km
- Tustin Legacy (Former Marine Corps Air Station Tustin) 21 km
- Former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro 30 km
- Feather mount 36 km
- Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton 52 km
- Camp Horno 53 Area 67 km
- March Air Reserve Base 75 km
- Fallbrook Naval Weapons Station 80 km
- Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Camp Pendleton 81 km
- Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge 1.1 km
- Leisure World Retirement community 2.2 km
- Los Cerritos Wetlands 3 km
- College Park East- Seal Beach 3.4 km
- Huntington Harbour 3.4 km
- Boeing Plant 3.5 km
- Rossmoor, California 4.3 km
- Alamitos Bay Harbor and Marinas 4.5 km
- California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) 5.3 km
- El Dorado Park West 6.2 km
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