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Kimball "Missile Center USA" is the center of the largest complex of Intercontinental Ballistics Missiles in the world. Two hundred Minuteman III ICBM's are harbored in silos in the immediate Tri-State area of Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming. This giant obsolete Titan I missile stood 100 feet tall at Gotte Park in Kimball. If you wish to visit it, go to the intersection of Highways 71 and 30, turn east and go nine blocks. The missile was damaged a couple of years ago, and is missing the top section.

The Titan I was designated as HGM-25C by the Air Force. The HGM designates a surface launched missile for above ground battle.

The Titan I was fueled by kerosene and liquid oxygen. The missile was stored in a hardened silo and was raised to the surface for launch, being fueled while being raised. The process took about 30 minutes. The first base was activated in early 1962. The last missile was removed from service in late 1965 or early 1966. The missile in Kimball entered and left service from a silo near Chico, California. Titan I was based in Denver with 18 missiles, Rapid City, Moses Lake Wash, Mountain Home Idaho, and Marsyville, California each with 9 missiles.

When deactivated, the sites were abandoned, and returned to the original property owners. Treaty obligations today require the site to be destroyed.

The missile weighed 221,500 lbs. at launch. Stage I generated 430,000lbs of thrust and stage II 80,000lbs. The engines were manufactured by Aerojet, then a division of General Tire Co. The missile in Kimball was built in Denver, Colorado and cost approximately 1.5 million.

Reaching for the sky, Lance Terrill jumps from the high diving board at the Kimball Swimming Pool on a summer evening in Gotte Park. Young and old take advantage of the pool to survive the heat.
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Youngsters have a whale of a good time at the Kimball pool.

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