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Web Articles about Pennsylvania
Designation
| General Location
| Detailed Location (Current Status)
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PH-07 | Richboro | web page Nike Base - PH07A,
Richboro, Bucks County, Pennsylvania By
Doug Crompton
C - 2 N Richboro, E of PA 232 ((P) Council Rock School District; offices
L - 1 E Richboro, N side PA 332 ((P) Northampton Tennis & Fitness Center)
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PH-15 | Newportville / Croydon |
K, William, [Jan 4, 2021]
This site is completely gone, the I95/PA Turnpike connector has been completed and all traces
of the PH-15 site have been erased. I attached a couple of photos of the location.
PH-15-IFC.jpg, PH-15-Control.jpg
---------- web site - new location as of July 2013 C - 0.5 W PA 413, S of I 276 ((O) private owner) [{Crystal, W} [Feb 2009] The radar towers have been removed sometime late 2008, early 2009 and this site will be completely gone probably over the next 1-3 years. This area is going to become part of the long awaited I-95/PA Turnpike connector ramps and roadways. (Now the homeless just have to be relocated.) ] [{Gale, M} [2004] I would like to see you change control from O to P as I personally saw 3 intact radar towers. Some foundations of buildings remain but no other structures. Perimeter fence remains also. The location could be enhanced to read "behind Bristol Plaza Shopping Center, Durham Rd." ] [(Murdock, S) GPS=40-07-40 074-53-14 ]
L - 0.5 W PA 413, S side Ford Rd ((P) USAR Center; 157th Bde (Separate)(Mech)
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Ft. Dix | SE Wrightstown | Temporary site - (/55- /56)
Fort Dix: USAR/ArNG Regional Training Center |
PH-32 | Marlton | C - 0.5 N Tomlinson Mill, Kettle Run Rd (O)
L - 0.8 NE Tomlinson Mill, N of Tomlinson Mill Rd (P) Evesham Board of Education |
PH-41/43 | Berlin/Clementon | C - Williamstown Rd (P) Private owner
L - Cross Keys & Terlon Rds. N of Atlantic City Expressway (P) US Government, abandoned |
PH-49 | Pittman | C - 1 WNW Pittman, Richwood Rd (P) Glouster County Christian School
L - Pittman-Jefferson Rd. (P) Kraemer Construction Company |
Ft. Mott | Salem | temporaty site
7 WNW Salem - currently Fort Mott State Park; wildlife refuge |
PH-58 | Swedesboro |
[{Lewis,R} [April 2016] I?m working on the blog post for this site,
but there are photographs on my website and I will be adding a bunch more soon. Here is a link
to the photos on my site. There are also photographs of the Lumberton site and NY-56
http://richardlewisphotography.com/galleries/cold-war-nike-missile-sites/ The site is still intact, but the buildings are in bad shape with many collapsed roofs. According to Woolwich Township officials the DOD which is still responsible for the Launcher area and has plans to demolish everything above ground, although it is not known when that will happen. The IFC is for sale by the township for redevelopment but there are no serious offers on the table at this point. ] C - 1 NNE Paulsboro Rd & US 322 (I) private owner L -1.4 NNE, off Paulsboro (P) US Government? |
PH-64DC | Pedricktown | US 130, 2 NE Penns Grove - current USAR Center; 550th MI Battalion, Salem Community College |
PH-67 | Chester /Village Green/ Media |
C - PA 452, N of US 322 ((P) Penn Del County School District; S. H. Smith Environmental Center) [{Gale, M} [Feb 2005] I sadly confirm the status of PH-67 control area as obliterated. Reconstruction of the school saw the remaining radar tower removed for good. I got 1 last picture of some wires sticking out of the ground. The original buildings were also razed in 2004. RIP ] [{Gale, M} [2000] One IFC tower remains converted to some kind of nature center. ]
L - N of Cherry Tree and Westchester Rds ((P)Chickester School Board /
Hilltop Elementary School
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PH-75 (double) | Edgemont / Delaware City | web site
C - 1.2 W Castle Rock, N of PA 3 ((P) county road maintenance facility [{Gale, M} [March 2000] IFC area is about to undergo major change. It previously went unchanged for years ( 3 towers remain, 2 buildings remain totally overgrown and untouched) Well I went there 3 weeks ago to find much brush clearing and cleanup and stakes in the ground as if the property may have changed hands or something. ... is at the northeast corner of Pa. RT. 3 and Delchester RD. and is visible from RT. 3.]
L - 1/2 W Castle Rock, S of PA 3 ((P) USAR Center; 157th Support Battalion
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PH-82 | Paoli / Valley Forge | Interesting document found by Thomas Page
C - 1 SW Valley Forge NHP, N of Yellow Springs Rd ((I) Univ. of Penn;
Valley Forge Research Center)
L - near intersection of Wsedesford & Leboutillier Rds ((P) private owner)
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PH-91 | Worcester /Center Square | Web page C - S Worcester, Church Rd ((O) Worcester Nike Park) [(Murdock, S) GPS=40-10-57, 75-21-00
L - Berks Rd ((P) USAR Center; 330 thh Combat Engineer Battalion
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PH-99
(double) | Warrington /Eureka |
a web site
C - 2 NNW NAS Willow Grove, N side Folly Rd ((P) Warrington Township; Igoe-Porter-Wellings Memorial Park, Twin Oaks Summer Camp [{Buffington, J} ... township, has done a great job of developing the fire control area into a memorial park, dedicated to the memory of three enlisted men from there who were killed in Vietnam. The launch area has playground equipment (active and passive recreation areas). ... I called the parks and recreation department director at Warrington and told her that they did a great job of developing the area ... but that one thing was missing: a marker making note of the fact that over a period of several years, several thousand young men spent two or three years out of their lives in defense of the area at the peak of the cold war. I pointed out that the kids who used the facilities daily don't have a clue about what went on there some forty years ago. For that matter, the youngsters think Nike means shoes, shirts, caps and shorts.
The township government picked up on the idea immediately, and one supervisor has
advised me he is talking to the local historic commission about the marker. I am
researching the history of the unit, Btry B, 3d Missile Battalion (Nike-Hercules)
60th Artillery in order to write a brief history for them. ]
L - 2 NNW NAS Willow Grove, W side Folly Rd ((P) Warrington Township Lower Nike Site;
partially destroyed)
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PI-02 | Rural Ridge | C - S Rural Ridge, Rich Hill Rd ((P)Teen Challenge; drug & alcohol rehab
[(Murdock, S) GPS 40-34-16, 79-49-48 ]
L - 0.4 N Rural Ridg ((P) Penna. Dept. of Transportation; road equipment yard
[anonymous, 7/99, "The owner of the old west penn airport is planing on buying
the launch area to extand his runway"] |
PI-03 | Dorseyville /Indianola |
15 miles N.E. Pittsburgh on Route 910 in West Deer Township C - Saxonburg Blvd ((I) American Indian Center Singing Winds Site) [(Murdock, S) GPS 40-34-50, 79-53-43 ] [{Linhart, B} (April 2001) The Fire control site is still part of the Three Rivers American Indian Council and is in good condition. ]
L - 1.3 N Dorseyville ((I) Northwest Deer Township Senior Citizens Center
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PI-25 | Murrysville /Monroe[ville] | C - 713 New Texas Rd ((P) Univ. Pittsburgh Primate Research Lab)
[(Marak, R) August 2009 - The site is located in Plum, PA, quite near where the borders of Monroeville (not Monroe, located in the opposite end of the state), Plum & Murrysville meet. I drive past it all the time. When I was a kid, you could see the missles on the hill across the valley from the lot at the end of my street in Monroeville. [(Darrall, M) Both sites are actually in Plum Borough, northeast of Pittsburgh and immediately north of the borough of Monroeville. Murrysville is a town east of Monroeville and southeast of Plum.
L - 428 Presque Ile Rd ((O) A.E. O'Block Elementary School, A.E. Stevenson High
School)
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PI-36 | Irwin | C - 1 NNE North Irwin, 1600 block Morris Rd ((P) Norwin Soccor Club,
Norwin YMCA, Oak Hollow Seniors Center)
[(Murdock, S) GPS=40-20-42 79-41-57 ] [(Jones, Donnie Jr) Oct 27, 2018 - Across the turnpike where the command and control center was everything is pretty much still intact including the block house with bomb door still intact inside of the snack bldg that is attached to it ! ]
L - 2 NW Manor, W of South Sandy Hill Rd, End of Nike Rd. ((P) private)
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PI-37 | Cowansburg /Hermine web site |
Donald Wellman sent the image of the
plaque "dedicated during our August 2011 Reunion."
and this
link to newspaper coverage. "The newspaper article has some basic facts wrong, but it seems that reporters seem to have trouble relaying the facts nowadays!!!"
C - 2 NNW Herminie ((?) abandoned) [{Hashash, B}"Gutted"] [(Murdock, S) GPS=40-16-22 79-45-49 ]
L - 2.5 NW Herminie ((I) Private)
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PI-42 | Elizabeth | C - 1 E Hillsdale, W of PA 48 ((P) Elizabeth Forward School District
[(Murdock, S) GPS= 40-15-01 79-51-27 ]
L - 1 W Mustard, N of Pineview Rd ((I) Twin Pines Council of Governments Police
Firing Range)
Housing -
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PI-43 | Elrama | C - 1.3 W Elrama ((P) PAArNG; D/876th Engineer Battalion)
[(Murdock, S) GPS 40-15-08, 79-57-07 ]
L - 2.2 W Elrama ((I) PAArNG; B/1/110th Infantry)
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PI-52 | Finleyville | C - 1.2 S Finleyville, Finleyville Rd ((P) South Hills Christian School
[{Morgan, M} 1992 - PI-52C is on the ridge to the north,
fairly intact and was serving as the South Hills Christian School.
I went up on the knoll behind the buildings and didn't find any evidence
of the radar palts, but did get a good view of Allegheny VORTAC on the next ridge over.]
L - 2 S Finleyville, Finleyville Rd ((P)Walter Long Manufacturing Company)
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PI-62 | Bridgeville /Bryant | C - 1 ESE Oakdale, Oakdale & Thoms Run Rds ((P) USAR; motor pool)
[(Murdock, S) GPS 40-23-35, 80-09-59 ]
L - 2 SE Oakdale, S side Battle Ridge Rd ((P) US Army Support Facility)
A - ((P) Headquarters, Army Readiness Group, Pittsburgh) |
PI-70DC AADB | Oakdale | 2 E Oakdale, Thoms Run Rd (USAR Charles E. Kelly Support Center;
various military, FAA radar site)
[Binder, {Michael} Nov 29, 2012 "Collier to get a brewery at former Nike missile site" ] [{Page, T} Nov 29, 2012 ... It is the most-intact of all the former air-defense radar stations in the Lower 48 of the Cold War era. All but one of the original radar towers are still standing. And one radar there is still in use today. ... Oakdale had additional significance with respect to the usual, garden-variety radar site. That is, it was a joint-use radar station for three government agencies: the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army, and the FAA. For the U.S. Air Force, the Oakdale radar site was one part of its Air Defense Command's nationwide coverage. The attending 662nd Radar Squadron actually began service at Brooksfield AFS in eastern Ohio; the squadron was relocated to Oakdale in the early 1960s specifically to maintain and operate the radars for the Army's Nike "Missile Master" command & control facility there. The Air Force's own Operations building and a few others are still in place. For the U.S. Army, the Oakdale radar site was the eyes and ears of the Pittsburgh Defense Area. The radars there at Oakdale provided the long-range radar detection for the Nike missile batteries around Pittsburgh. The aforementioned Army's Nike "Missile Master" command & control center is still intact (only ten such MM facilities were ever built, and only about half are still extant today). For the FAA, the Oakdale radar site was (and still is) one of many long-range air-route surveillance radar sites all across the country. From day one, the FAA maintained and operated the search radar at Oakdale (first their own ARSR-1 model, then later the Air Force's AN/FPS-24 model plus a backup AN/FPS-20 model on the next hill). (The Air Force maintained all the height-finder radars.) The FAA now operates an AN/FPS-67B radar (atop the old AN/FPS-24 radar tower), so to be replaced by a modern CARSR radar. For more information, please see http://www.radomes.org/museum/showsite.php?site=Oakdale+AI,+PA&squadron=&country=. Scroll down, and click on "Photographs" or "Recent Photos" or any other link of choice. ] [{Laughlin, K} former Missile Master base at Oakdale, PA (99th ARCOM) is going to be deactivated, site will be turned over to various Allegheny county departments ] |
PI-71 | Corapolis /Beacon |
C - Silver Ln, NNW of Forest Grove ((I) Robinson Dept. of Public Works)
[{Murdock, S}GPS=40-28-53, 80-08-42 TopoZone (Overall view; IFC to right, launcher to left) ]
L - Nike Rd ((P) private owner)[{Hashash, B}Demolished]
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PI-92 | Bryant /North Park | C - 2 NE Highland, Peebles Rd ((P) USAR North Hills Army Reserve Center;
128th Military Intellengence Battalion (CEWI), 446th Military
Intellengence Battalion det)
[(Murdock, S) GPS 40-34-34, 80-00-05 ]
L - 3 NE Highland, Kummer Rd ((I) Allegheny County Police & Fire Academy)
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PI-93 | West View | C - 0.8 NW West View, Gass Rd
[{Harris, W} July 2010 - In my capacity as a Cable Splicing Tech for Verizon, I frequently have access to Westview PI-93. The site is largely intact, with the addition of two cell towers and a Army Corps of Engineers building. The USACE site is a communications site and has a large HF antenna associated with it. ] [{Foster, M} July 2010 - Upon further ... of the 57 and 64 Historicaerials it appears all of the barracks and administration buildings were at the Control Area, just up Jake Bron Road. ] [{Koedel, T} July 2010 - In 2008, the Guard unit was transferred to Grove City, PA. This site is currently occupied by the United States Army Corps of Engineers for use as a communications hub for their Locks and Dams in Pennsylvania and Ohio. ] [{Poole, R} Jan 2007 - Gass Road, not Bass Road, {Ah Ha - Rings of Supersonic Steel is not purrfekt ;-| fixed - thanks} and it is still in use by the army as a signal battalion of some sort. ] [{Hashash, B} Near Camp Horne Road exit of I-279.] ((P) PAArNG, 28th Signal Battalion) [(Murdock, S) GPS 40-31-39, 80-03-45 ]
L - 1.3 NNE Emsworth ((P) Avonworth High School)
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