Editing Nevada Test and Training Range (section)

==References==
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<ref name="2010Census">{{cite web |format=spreadsheet text |year=2010 |title=Download the 2010 Census Tract to Military Area |url=https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/docs/centract_military.txt |access-date=February 9, 2013 |quote=<!--
* STATEFP,COUNTYFP,TRACTCE,POPDEC,HOUSING,MTFCC,DISPLAYNAME,SUMAREA,TOTALAREA,PCT_TRACT_COVERED
: ...
: 32,003,005902,1433,567,K2110,Nevada Test and Training Range ,1465337815,5651469816,25.93
: 32,003,006001,4289,2157,K2110,Nellis AFB ,4923819,9766803,50.41
: ...
: 32,003,007500,6314,1105,K2110,Nevada Test and Training Range ,34521,1768430667,0
: 32,003,007800,2757,933,K2110,Nellis AFB ,55795809,138353485,40.33
: ...
: 32,017,950200,2661,1219,K2110,Nevada Test and Training Range ,3160371105,18028461037,17.53
: ...
: 32,023,980500,0,0,K2110,Tonopah Test Range ,8516311,10843014928,0.08
: 32,023,980500,0,0,K2110,Nevada Test and Training Range ,7334373420,10843014928,67.64--> |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202111944/http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/docs/centract_military.txt |archive-date=February 2, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;also available [http://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/tigerwebmain/Files/tigerweb_acs11_military_us.html as a graphic table with NTTR lat/lon:]{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} +37.3067987 -116.1698524</ref>

<ref name="2011Factsheet">{{Cite report |date=March 10, 2011 |title=Nevada Test and Training Range |url=http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=9856 |format=AFHRA Fact Sheet |publisher=[[Air Force Historical Research Agency]] |access-date=February 6, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130220102021/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=9856 |archive-date=February 20, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
<ref name="2012FactSheet">{{Cite report |date=July 12, 2012 |title=Nevada Test and Training Range |url=http://www.nellis.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=18506 |format=99th ABW Fact Sheet |publisher=[[99th Air Base Wing]] Public Affairs |access-date=February 9, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130217021903/http://www.nellis.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=18506 |archive-date=February 17, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

<!-- unused <ref name="DOE/NV-1046">National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office, ''Plutonium Dispersal Tests at the Nevada Test Site'', April 2010, [http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/factsheets/DOENV_1046.pdf DOE/NV-1046] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927020910/http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/factsheets/DOENV_1046.pdf |date=September 27, 2011 }}</ref> unused -->

<!-- unused <ref name="DOE/NV-209">U.S. Department of Energy / Nevada Operations Office, ''United States Nuclear Tests - July 1945 through September 1992'', December 2000, [http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/publications/historical/DOENV_209_REV15.pdf DOE/NV-209 Rev 15] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061012160826/http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/publications/historical/DOENV_209_REV15.pdf |date=October 12, 2006 }}</ref> unused -->

<ref name="EO9019">{{Citation |year=1942 |title=Executive Order 9019}}{{Full citation needed|date=February 2013}} <!-- '''NOTE''': EO9019 returned about {{Convert|937730|acre|sqmi}} of the Las Vegas General Range to the [[Department of the Interior]] and by 1953, about {{Convert|154584|acre|sqmi}} of the former Tonopah General Range were relinquished. "These two tracts of land comprise Area A, approximately 708,621 acres ... in Lincoln and Nye Counties north and northeast of the present-day boundaries of the Nellis Air Force Range ... the majority of the area is used for wildlife conservation and is controlled by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) [and] The remainder of the land is owned by various private landowners.... The majority of Area A is still used today as a [[Military Operations Area]] (MOA) for flyovers by the pilots from Nellis Air Force Base ... and is not part of ... Nellis Air Force Range." --> (GlobalSecurity.org)</ref>

<ref name="FFACO">{{Cite report |date=<!-- "took effect on May 10, 1996": quote about FFACO date from Wagner p. 3-2--> |title=FFACO Facility Descriptions & Maps: Federal Facility Agreement & Consent Order |url=http://ndep.nv.gov/boff/ffco1.htm |publisher=Nevada DEP Bureau of Federal Facilities |access-date=February 10, 2013 |quote=<!-- Public Land Order 2568 (December 19, 1961), and under the authority of Executive Order 10355 on May 26, 1952, approximately 318,000 acres of the Nellis Air Force Range was transferred from the Air Force to the AEC -->|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606051915/http://ndep.nv.gov/boff/ffco1.htm |archive-date=June 6, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

<ref name="GlobalSecurity">{{Cite web |date=<!-- before October 2001 when 98th RG replaced 99th RG --> |title=Nellis Range Complex: Nellis Air Force Range (NAFR) |url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/nellis-range.htm |publisher=[[Global Security]] |access-date=February 1, 2013 |quote= <!-- Detachment 1 of the 99th Range Squadron is responsible for supporting all ACC activities at [[Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field]] and the Southern Ranges of the NAFR.... Detachment 2 of the 99th Range Squadron is responsible for, and directs, all ACC activities at [[Tonopah Test Range Airport|Tonopah Test Range Airfield]] and the Northern Ranges.... Approximately 816,400 acres of the NAFR have been withdrawn from the Desert National Wildlife Range (DNWR). The Air Force and USFWS jointly manage this area. -->}} <!-- '''NOTE''': Plate No. 1 of the ASR shows the smaller DNWR area after the withdrawal --> (pdf p. 154).</ref>

<ref name="GNIS">
{{Cite gnis |2511961 |Nevada Test and Training Range (2511961) |quote=373136N 1161153W |access-date=February 12, 2013}}<br>
{{Cite gnis |2090215 |Tonopah Air Force Station (2090215)      |access-date=February 7, 2013}}<br>
{{Cite gnis |864133  |Tonopah Airport (864133)                 |access-date=February 7, 2013}}<br>
{{Cite gnis |2096585 |Tonopah Army Air Field (2096585)         |access-date=February 7, 2013}}<br>
{{Cite gnis |844361  |Tonopah Beacon (844361)                  |access-date=February 7, 2013}}<br>
{{Cite gnis |tbd     |Tonopah Manhattan Stage Route (tbd)      |access-date=February 7, 2013}}<br>
{{Cite gnis |tbd     |Tonopah Stage Route (tbd)                |access-date=February 7, 2013}}
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<ref name="Huntley">{{cite report |last=Huntley |first=Chris, Proj. Mgr. |date=August 2008 |title=... Patriot Communications Exercises in Lincoln County, Nevada |url=http://www.nellis.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-080404-038.pdf |format=Final Environmental Assessment |publisher=Aspen Environmental Group |access-date=February 6, 2013 |quote=<!-- Proposed Action: Obtain a 15-year Communications Use Lease (CUL) ... to support ground-based Radar/Communications exercises. The sites are located in an area encompassing approximately 2.5 million acres of public lands in the [[Sand Springs Valley]], Coal Valley, [[Delamar Valley]], and [[Dry Lake Valley]] under [[Military Operations Area|MOA airspace]].... thirteen (13) 5.7 acre sites totaling approximately 74.1 acres located in Lincoln County... (Use of location 112C will not be approved at this time.) ... the Key Pittman WMA is ... in the general area of the proposed sites.... associated with the creation of an Integrated Air Defense System (IADS) using Patriot radar communications ... the NTTR does not possess the required resources to train both ground and air systems against a full-spectrum battlefield environment. In March 2005, the BLM granted the USAF a temporary CUL for eight sites in the [[Delamar Valley]] area to conduct Red Flag Exercises [using] ground-to-air, air-to-air, and air-to-ground combat scenarios ... US Army Patriot and Avenger Batteries and Sentinel Radar Systems were used ... Landing Strip pdf 143--> |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130304014049/http://www.nellis.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-080404-038.pdf |archive-date=March 4, 2013 |df=mdy-all}} [just N of [[Rachel, Nevada]]]</ref>

<ref name="USACE2001">{{cite report |author=[author(s) not identified] |date=December 2002 |title=Findings: Tonopah Bombing Range (Archives Search Report--ASR) |series=Project Number - J09NV1114 |publisher=[[United States Army Corps of Engineers|U1SACE]] St. Louis District |quote=This site is located approximately 60 miles east of Tonopah, adjacent to the current Nellis Air Force Range.}}</ref>

<!--ASR pdf 40--><ref name="Chaffin">{{cite letter |author1=Lt Col A. D. Chaffin Jr |date=June 28, 1949 |title=Gunnery Range, Tonopah Air Force Base |publisher=USACE San Francisco District <!--|access-date=February 4, 2013--> |quote=The Gunnery Range of the [[Tonopah Air Force Base]] is approximately fifteen miles East of the City of Tonopah, Nevada, and is bounded on the South by U.S. Highway No. 8. The Gunnery Range consists of approximately thirty square miles and is all open flat desert}} {{Specify|which valley?|date=February 2013}}</ref>

<!--cited by 7th Ind. on ASR pdf 43--><ref name="Harper">{{cite news |last=Harper, Robert Wells|date= June 13, 1949 |title=General Order No. 25 |publisher=Headquarters, [[Air Training Command]]}} (preceded by "Office, Director of Military Personnel" indorsement on June 1, 1949: "This headquarters approves the redesignation of the combined Ranges, Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range and Tonopah Bombing and Gunnery Range as the Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range.")</ref>
     <!--ASR pdf 109--><ref name="Madsen">{{cite report |last=Madsen |first=Col. Peter T. |date=September 21, 1999 |title=Findings of Fact |volume=Findings and Determination of Eligibility...DERP-FUDS SITE NO. J09NV1114 |publisher=[[Defense Environmental Restoration Program]] |quote=Executive Order No. 9019 was executed on January 12, 1942, to redefine the boundaries of the Tonopah Bombing and Gunnery Range. As a result of this Executive Order, lands included in Townships 1 and 2 North, Ranges 46 through 54 East and Townships 1 through 7 South, Ranges 54 through 56 East were returned to the public domain.... Executive Order No, 10355 executed in 1957 returned an additional 155,645 acres of land to the Bureau of Land Management}}</ref>
     <!--ASR pdf 71--><ref name="McMullen">{{Cite letter |last=McMullen |first=Maj Gen Clements |date=June 13, 1947 |title=Excess Declaration, Tonopah Army Air Field |quote=Pursuant to the authority contained in PAF Regulation 85-3,... this command has no longer a military need for Tonopah Amy Air Field and its auxiliary facilities,... Tonopah Army Air Field contains 21,912.09 acres of land, government-owed, transferred.to the War Department, from the Department of Interior, There are two (2) asphalt concrete runways 8910' long, 150' wide ... auxiliary facilities are declared excess: (1) Mizpah Housing Terrace (2) Butler Housing Terrace (3) Columbia Junction (gasoline unloading station) ... for retention: (1) Tonopah Bombing and Gunnery Range}}</ref>
     <!--ASR pdf 80--><ref name="CNO">{{cite letter |date=January 30, 1958 |title=Subj: West Coast Weapons Training Requirements |publisher=Office of the Chief of Naval Operations <!--|access-date=February 4, 2013--> |quote=A part (known as Tonopah) of the Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range, was made available to the Navy in February of 1957.... the NAMTC at Pt. Mugu uses the instrumented AEC range at Tonopah.... acreage made available to the Navy was 1,791,891.69. Of this, 369,280 acres is under permit to the AEC and 213,443 acres is outside of Restricted Area 271.... constructing a minimum staging base at Tonopah [with] Single runway (19,000') ... Fallon...Target B-16...B-19...B-20...B-21 ... }}</ref>
     <!--ASR pdf 86--><ref name="Valliant">{{cite letter |last=Valliant |first=Col R. D. |date=November 4, 1940 |title=Tonopah Bombing Range, Nevada |location=[[Presidio of San Francisco]] |publisher=Office of the Quartermaster General, [[Ninth Corps Area]] <!--|access-date=February 4, 2013--> |quote=Tonopah Bombing Range, Nevada. This reservation comprises approximately 3,560,000.00 acres and was withdrawn by Executive Order No, 8578 dated October 29, 1940, from the public domain.}}</ref>
     <!--ASR pdf 88--><ref name="York">{{cite report |last=York Jr |first=Lt. Col. John Y. |date=June 27, 1941 |title=Subject: Tonopah Gunnery and Bombing Range: Memorandum for the Chief of Air Staff |publisher=Air Corps |quote=The Air Force Combat Command be assigned jurisdiction of' the Tonopah Range area north of 37° 30', and this area designated as the Tonopah General Range. 2. The [[West Coast Air Corps Training Center|West Coast Training Center]] be assigned exclusive jurisdiction of the Tonopah Range area south of 37° 30', and this area designated as the "Las Vegas General Range".}}</ref>
     <!--ASR pdf 110--><ref name="Mullery">{{cite report |last=Mullery |first=Bill |date=February 2013 |title=Tonopah Bombing Range (Project Summary Sheet) |volume=DERP-FUDS OE Project No. J09NV111401 |quote=The former target area is now public property administered by the Bureau of Land Management.}}</ref>
<ref name="Wagner">{{cite report |editor=Wagner, Katrina |date=September 2004 |title=2003 Annual Site Environmental Report, Tonopah Test Range |publisher=Sandia National Laboratories}}</ref>
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