Operation Roller Coaster was a series of nuclear tests conducted at a reservation located in what county?
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Operation Roller Coaster Operation Roller Coaster was a series of 4 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1963 at the Nevada Test Site. These tests followed the "Operation Storax" series and preceded the "Operation Niblick" series.
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Nevada Test Site The Nevada National Security Site (N2S2),(though the abbreviation NNSS is still used), previously the Nevada Test Site (NTS), is a United States Department of Energy reservation located in southeastern Nye County, Nevada, about 65 miles (105 km) northwest of the city of Las Vegas. Formerly known as the Nevada Proving Grounds, the site was established on 11 January 1951 for the testing of nuclear devices, covering approximately 1,360 square miles (3,500 km) of desert and mountainous terrain. Nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada Test Site began with a 1-kiloton-of-TNT (4.2 TJ) bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat on 27 January 1951. Many of the iconic images of the nuclear era come from the NTS. NNSS is operated by National Security Technologies, LLC, a joint venture of Northrop Grumman, AECOM, CH2M Hill, and Babcock & Wilcox.
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John and Louise Seier National Wildlife Refuge John and Louise Seier National Wildlife Refuge is located in the U.S. state of Nebraska and includes 2,400 acres (9.71 km). The refuge protects a portion of the largest remaining area of tall and mid grass prairie remaining in the U.S. Collectively known as the Sand Hills region of Nebraska, the dunes were the end result of the last ice age known as the Pinedale glaciation. During the Holocene glacial retreat the sand dunes that been deposited in their current location by the vast continental glaciers, were exposed and grasses eventually took over. The refuge is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and along with Fort Niobrara and Valentine National Wildlife Refuges, form the Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge Complex.
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Rapid Valley, South Dakota Rapid Valley is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated community in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States, and a suburb of Rapid City. The population was 8,260 at the 2010 census. Rapid Valley has been a retreat for people living in Rapid City due to its low crime, cheap land, and views of the Black Hills. Rapid Valley is home to many industrial and financial businesses, and is the headquarters for many corporations specializing in transport and engineering. The Rapid City Regional Airport is located in Rapid Valley.
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Operation Storax Operation Storax was a series of 47 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1962-1963 at the Nevada Test Site. These tests followed the "Operation Fishbowl" series and preceded the "Operation Roller Coaster" series.
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Eureka, Nevada Eureka is a census-designated place in and the county seat of Eureka County, Nevada, United States. With a population of 610 as of the 2010 census, Eureka is by far the largest community in Eureka County. Attractions include the Eureka Opera House (built in 1880 and restored in 1993), Raine’s Market and Wildlife Museum (built 1887), the Jackson House Hotel (built 1877), and the Eureka Sentinel Museum (housed in the 1879 "Eureka Sentinel" Newspaper Building).
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Oglala, South Dakota Oglala (Lakota: "Oglála"; "he scatters his own") is a census-designated place (CDP) in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 1,290 at the 2010 census. Its location is northwest of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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Steely Hollow, Oklahoma Steely Hollow is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 206 at the 2010 census.
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Glacier County, Montana Glacier County is located in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 13,399. The county is located in northwestern Montana between the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, known to the Blackfeet as the "Backbone of the World". The county is geographically and culturally diverse and includes the Blackfeet Native American Reservation, Glacier National Park, and Lewis and Clark National Forest. The county is bordered by 75 miles of international boundary with two ports of entry (Piegan and Del Bonita) open year-round and one seasonal (Chief Mountain) international border crossing into Alberta, Canada.
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Macomb Reservation State Park Macomb Reservation State Park is a 600 acre state park in the Town of Schuyler Falls in Clinton County, New York, United States. The park is located on the Salmon River, outside the Adirondack Park, and 2 mi west of the hamlet of Schuyler Falls.
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Pine Ridge Indian Reservation The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (Lakota: "Wazí Aháŋhaŋ Oyáŋke" ), also called Pine Ridge Agency, is an Oglala Lakota Native American reservation located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Originally included within the territory of the Great Sioux Reservation, Pine Ridge was established in 1889 in the southwest corner of South Dakota on the Nebraska border. Today it consists of 3,468.85 mi2 of land area and is the eighth-largest reservation in the United States, larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined.
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Yellowstone National Cemetery Yellowstone National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located 1 mile north of Laurel, Yellowstone County, Montana, at 55 Buffalo Trail Road (state highway 532), administered by the US Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration. The 10.5 acre cemetery began as a satellite cemetery of Black Hills National Cemetery; Sturgis, South Dakota. On 18 May 2015, the Department of Veterans Affairs created five national areas of responsibility, and Fort Logan National Cemetery, Denver, Colorado, assumed supervisory responsibility for Yellowstone National Cemetery. Yellowstone National Cemetery is the first of eight smaller national burial grounds the Department of Veterans Affairs plans in its Rural Veterans Burial Initiative for largely rural states in America..
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Rimrock, Montana Rimrock is a populated place located in Yellowstone County at .
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Devils Hole Devils Hole is a geologic formation located within the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, in Nye County, Nevada in the Southwestern United States.
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Bunkerville, Nevada Bunkerville is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States. The population was 1,303 at the 2010 census.
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Ramah Navajo Indian Reservation The Ramah Navajo Indian Reservation is a non-contiguous section of the Navajo Nation lying in parts of west-central Cibola and southern McKinley counties in New Mexico, United States, just east and southeast of the Zuni Indian Reservation. It has a land area of 230.675 sq mi (597.445 km²), over 95 percent of which is designated as off-reservation trust land. According to the 2000 census, the resident population is 2,167 persons. The Ramah Reservation's land area is less than one percent of the Navajo Nation's total area.
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Terril Mountains The Terril Mountains are located in west-central Nevada in the United States. The range is located at the northern end of the Walker River Indian Reservation where Lyon County, Mineral County, and Churchill County meet.
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Owyhee, Nevada Owyhee is a census-designated place (CDP) in Elko County, Nevada, United States, along the banks of the Owyhee River. The population was 953 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Elko Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is the primary town of the federally recognized Shoshone-Paiute tribe's Duck Valley Indian Reservation, which covers portions of northern Nevada and southern Idaho, and the majority of its population are Native American.
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Fort Carson Fort Carson is a United States Army installation located in El Paso County, Colorado, near the city of Colorado Springs.
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Winchester, Nevada Winchester is an unincorporated town and census-designated place (CDP) and part of Las Vegas Township in Clark County, Nevada, United States that contains part of the Las Vegas Strip. It is one of a number of CDPs in the unincorporated urbanized area directly south of Las Vegas. The population was 27,978 at the 2010 census. It is governed by the Clark County Commission with advice from the Winchester Town Advisory Board. "Winchester, NV" does not appear in postal addresses; the United States Postal Service has assigned "Las Vegas, NV" as the place name for the ZIP codes containing Winchester.
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West Point, Kentucky West Point is a home rule-class city in Hardin County, Kentucky, United States, near the edge of Fort Knox military reservation on Dixie Highway. It is located in a former meander bend of the Ohio River. The population was 797 at the 2010 census, down from 1,100 at the 2000 census.
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Duckwater Valley Duckwater Valley is a valley in Nye County, Nevada. It starts south of the northern border of Nye County, and runs south for a distance of approximately 12 miles to Railroad Valley. The Duckwater Valley is enclosed by the Pancake Range in the west and by the Duckwater Hills in the east. The Duckwater Creek crosses the valley. State Route 379 goes partially through the Duckwater Valley as well. The only populated place in the valley is Duckwater. Part of the valley is occupied by the Duckwater Reservation.