Photograph of Quebec-One Missile Alert Facility — Photograph by Jayron32, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Quebec 01 Launch Control Facility

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

From the record

“The Quebec-One Missile Alert Facility, also known as Quebec-01 or Q-01, located 30 miles north of Cheyenne, Wyoming, near Chugwater, was a United States Air Force ICBM launch control facility. It was operated by the 400th Missile Squadron constructed in 1962.”
Wikipedia article Quebec-One Missile Alert Facility, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Laramie County · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 2025 Road 238 (southwest of Exit 39, Interstate 25), Chugwater, 82009
Category. district
Census division. Cheyenne West
National Register reference number. 100009836 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Quebec 01 Launch Control Facility in 2005, burning about 3,000 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
17 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3,000 acres	Fort Laramie National Historic Site	LITTLEBEAR

Every fire recorded in Laramie County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009836 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Laramie County	All 60 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.