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![]() Underground wires and sensors connected the facility with 10 missile silos under the surrounding prairie farmland. Three people were on duty at all times, with M-16 rifles at the ready. ![]() When India-Zero was functioning, a crew of 10 to 30 missileers - as they were known - manned the missile alert facility around the clock. GSA is awarding former missile silo property to people who bid more than $6,000. Others have gone for a few thousand less. The highest price the GSA has received at auction is $17,800 for a similar launch control facility. It also includes a detached two-bay garage containing 960 square feet and two overhead doors that can accommodate vehicles as much as 12 feet high. It includes: a one-story, 7,000-square-foot building with seven bedrooms and three baths, including one with two showers large kitchen with a serving area utility room large dining/recreation room. Morken will farm the 10 acres outside the chain-link fence. He said one reason to buy was to have some control over the property, and who takes it over. "It was real reasonable, dirt cheap," Morken said, declining to disclose the purchase price. Morken and Rod Meyer, a real estate agent and longtime friend, are marketing it as a potential hunting camp or a bed-and-breakfast operation in the heart of North Dakota's prairie pothole region and less than five miles from Pekin, N.D., and from Stump Lake, a year-round fishing destination that is connected to Devils Lake. The buildings were built in the mid-1960s and have steel siding. The alert/launch control facilities generally include about 20 acres of land, including 10 acres inside a 10-foot-high chain-link fence. Some farmers and ranchers in the region bought the property as an investment, either to develop or to sell for a quick profit. The few remaining silo sites are expected to be sold by spring. Those that weren't sold that way have been put up for auction.Įarlier this week, the federal agency closed bidding on a similar missile launch control facility, Foxtrot-Zero, located near Lawton, N.D., according to William Morgan, GSA project manager. General Services Administration has been selling the properties, first offering them to adjacent landowners. Underground facilities have been filled with sand and concrete.ĭuring the past couple of years, the U.S. ![]() Tons of metal and cable have been salvaged. They're part of the 91st Missile Wing at Minot Air Force Base.Īfter the Air Force removed missiles in northeastern North Dakota, it began dismantling the launch control facilities and missile silos, which have been vacant for about a decade. North Dakota still has 150 Minuteman missiles, in the northwestern part of the state. When the Cold War ended, the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty between the United States and Russia meant the deactivation of the 321st Missile Wing and the removal of the 150 Minuteman III missiles in northeastern North Dakota. ![]()
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