FSBO, Unique Fixxer-Upper Opportunity
This Fairdale, North Dakota, missile silo and bunker is up for auction in August. (Pifer)
Category: None
Subscribe
If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to receive more just like it.
Get On Board
Enter your email address below to receive updates each time we publish new content.
It doesn’t come with the missile?
Dave, can you get the Soviet to translate “OROCHENKO”? It’s painted on the top of one of the surface structures. I assume that’s for the purpose of the START Treaty and telling the Russkies it’s decommissioned?
Mason – looks like the owners name(minus the ‘V’)
Yup, owner’s name is Volochenko
https://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/mandan-man-puts-cold-war-era-missile-site-up-for-auction/article_1ed59638-48b4-5e09-81da-e296746e44f1.html
Right you guys are. Funny.
https://valorguardians.com/blog/?attachment_id=103399
Are there any lost wrenches at the bottom of the silo?
It was a different type of missile. Don’t sweat it. (smile)
Probably not… The site for sale is a Sprint missile site(anti-ballistic missile) –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile).
Think you might be thinking of the 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion(Titan II Inter Continental Ballistic Missile) –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_explosion ☢️
You mean…. we don’t got no NORAD and no more missiles in them there hills any more?
Aww, nuts! What’s the point to ending the Cold War, then?
Here’s the link and I’ve got to admit, this site looks exceedingly cool – https://www.pifers.com/listing/4948-acre-missile-site-walsh-county-nd
Weird. I have something coming up later about a missile attack on Kansas.
Note how the yearly taxes are a whole $326 a year. However also note there is no power or water.
Looking at the pictures it seems there’s plenty of water. 😉
Here is the link covering AW1Ed’s Story:
“This Cold War-Era Missile Silo Is The Ultimate Fixer-Upper”
https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2020/08/07/this-cold-war-era-missile-silo-is-the-ultimate-fixer-upper/
“Want to buy a Cold War-era command center and missile silo? Well, you’re in luck. One in Fairdale, North Dakota, is now available for auction, and it’s got everything … except the ordnance.”
“Located just south the Canadian border, the site, which was commissioned in the 1970s, was defunded before it was ever put to use, according to property manager David Keller.”
“The whole site was commissioned and ready to go … but had already been defunded when it became active,” Keller told Military Times.”
“The defunct site, one of many built to protect the United States from Soviet attacks over the Arctic, was armed with defensive missiles intended to shoot down any indirect fire.”
“This particular site was part of the Sprint Missile Defense System,” Keller said. “This was a defensive system, it was designed to shoot down any incoming missiles.”
“Sprint was an ICBM interceptor missile from the 1960s that was considered the final line of defense, a last-ditch option in the event of a Soviet missile-launch.”
“Currently the place is owned by a private buyer who originally intended to refurbish the property and return it to its former glory.”
“Leslie Volochenko bought it and had plans to restore it, but it never came to be,” Keller noted.”
As Ex Coelis noted in the above comment, the auction for this particular plot, which encompasses roughly 50 acres, is set for August 11.
Be interesting to follow this auction. Fifty acres of raw land, with buildings, but no utilities (power, water, sewage). And colder than a polar bears behind for who knows how long each year.
Any trees to burn in a wood burning stove?
The Niky base in Point Lookout Long Island NY was put up as part of the DEW line but is now vacant and flooded. Don’t know if anyone bought the property.
When was that base shut down? 1990s?
Ex;
The Point Lookout/Lido Niky base was shut down in the mid 1960’s and the Long Beach School District uses some of the buildings according to my friend Whom I called before typing this out.
Lot’s of Cold War former targets out there for sale. The Dakotas, KS, and NE are full of them. In addition to the “fixer up” status, they most probably still have the “target” status. Despite the spapos seagull’s accusations that many of us are still stuck in a Cold War Era mentality, most of us know and understand that what was a target 50 years ago is still a viable target today. There were 4 Nike sites perched around Middle Georgia to help protect Robins. It was known when they were built that it was just whistling in the dark.
Being assigned to the Missile Silos, ICBM or Nike, was not exactly fun duty. Just as it was in the tactical nuke game where we just hoped we’d have time to launch the birds. Had a good friend that spent a good portion of his AF Air Police Career in the Missile Fields. He made mention once that part of his mission was to insure that the launch officer turned his key at the appointed time. No matter what it took.
Maybe we should bid on it and turn the place into a Summer Camp for TAH ‘weeds and ‘weedettes?
I would like to have one of the old AT&T long lines sites
with the giant free standing tower and bunker.
You could talk to God from there.
When I was stationed at White Sands (67-68) I got the chance to witness a Sprint missile launch, if you blinked you missed it. Absolutely unbelievably FAST, more like a controlled explosion.
Looks like a commercial for mesothelioma litigation.
Now -that- is “the back of beyond”.
Big time. There are easier and cheaper ways to be miserable than trying to renovate an old silo.
These things were built in a rush in the 60’s and have 50+ years of neglect to boot. “Underground” facilities need lots of maintenance as water and critters tend to come in from the most unlikely places.
I was talking to someone online years ago who assured me that it would only take a little work for those “deactivated” silos to become active. I laughed and pointed out to him that it would be easier and cheaper for the military to buy a vacant piece of land and build a brand new silo from scratch than it would be to try to reactivate one of these old, decrepit facilities.
With regard to the Sprint/Spartan missiles and Micklesen Safeguard Complex itself, even in an era of mind-boggling military spending the Safeguard program stood out. From the Wikipedia: