Project# 0994.06 Cultural Resources Survey of Naval Space Command Field Stations Across the Southern United States, 1999 - 2001

HHM conducted an NRHP-eligibility survey of extant resources at the nine surveillance field stations of the Naval Space Command. This radar detection system consists of three transmitting and six receiving stations across the southern United States (Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California), and a central processing center in Dahlgren, Virginia. The Department of the Navy began constructing the system in 1958, shortly after the launching of Sputnik I, the first man-made orbital satellite. As originally conceived, the system’s primary mission has been to detect, catalog, and predict the orbital patterns of all space objects, and that mission remains largely unchanged. HHM documented 97 buildings, structures, and objects at the nine field stations and recommended that the entire system possessed exceptional significance within the context of the Cold War and thus was eligible for the NRHP.