• Underground Delta-01 LCC, 44th Missile Wing/66th Strategic Missile Wing logos, topside view of Delta-09 LF

    Minuteman Missile

    National Historic Site South Dakota

Minuteman Missile Field Maps

United States Minuteman Missile Fields

Minuteman Missile sites were not really top secret during the Cold War. As a matter of fact, local landowners and citizens of the Great Plains were well aware of nearby sites. The following maps show the location of Minuteman Missile fields beginning in 1962 up until the end of the Cold War.

United States Minuteman Missile Fields

44th Strategic Missile Wing - Ellsworth AFB (western South Dakota)

Did You Know?

Launch control center key turn

A Minuteman Missile can strike a target up to 6,300 miles away in the time it takes to watch an average television sitcom, 30 minutes.