Bunker search in Oregon

[oremike]

I'm pipe dreaming of getting some rough land in Eastern Oregon. For buildings I was thinking of Shipping contaiers half buried in the ground with the excavated dirt put on top of the container and replanted. Then it dawned on me that such structures probably could be found as old ammo bunkers. How does one go about finding such bunkers? I know about Umatilla and the back scatter radar site out Chritmas Valley way but there has to other bunkers out there somewhere.

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[Provincial]

I am not an expert, but my impression is that those were Quonset huts that were covered with dirt. They are essentially a bottomless corrugated culvert made with bolt-together plates. Nowadays you will need a real foundation, which could be anything from a reinforced slab with thickened edges up to real footings like a stick-built house. The internet has many sellers of quonset hut kits.

 

[It-That]

There's one under the butte between Powell and division on the east edge of 205.

 

[Longwalkhome]

I'm pipe dreaming of getting some rough land in Eastern Oregon. For buildings I was thinking of Shipping contaiers half buried in the ground with the excavated dirt put on top of the container and replanted. Then it dawned on me that such structures probably could be found as old ammo bunkers. How does one go about finding such bunkers? I know about Umatilla and the back scatter radar site out Chritmas Valley way but there has to other bunkers out there somewhere.

As I recall, Umatilla was the nation's storage facility for chemical weapons and they had to build an incinerator to destroy them. I would not want anything to do with containers from that area.

Umatilla Chemical Depot - Wikipedia

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[oremike]

As I recall, Umatilla was the nation's storage facility for chemical weapons and they had to build an incinerator to destroy them. I would not want anything to do with containers from that area.

Umatilla Chemical Depot - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Yep, I'm not looking to move to Umatilla, but the bunkers are cool anyway. I know the whole of eastern oregon was a training area during WWII and there are bunkers up and down the coast. Camp White somewhere near Medford has bunkers they used for training to take out enemy pill boxes. Also the main lodge at Sunriver was the headquarters for the maneuvers. I'm guessing that scattered out there somewhere are smaller bunkers or underground magazines that they kept the training ammo in, you know mortar ammo near the mortar pits and stuff like that.

 

[2Wheels4Ever]

There's one under the butte between Powell and division on the east edge of 205.

Yep, up on Kelly butte. It used to be open, but they sealed the entrance in the early 2000s. Growing up, that's where the homeless used to live in the area.

 

[It-That]

Yep, up on Kelly butte. It used to be open, but they sealed the entrance in the early 2000s. Growing up, that's where the homeless used to live in the area.

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[nehalemguy]

I once met a guy in North Plains who had tried the buried shipping container idea. He contacted the company I worked for looking for solutions on how to stop in from collapsing in on itself.

They are engineered to be stacked, not buried.

-E-

 

[belshawelk]

Buried for a nuclear war? Many many things will happen before a nuclear war.

 

[It-That]

Buried for a nuclear war? Many many things will happen before a nuclear war.

But the opportunity to build a shelter is before it. This is the subject here.

 

[41mag]

Bunker survival in itself is complex enough. Post nuke survival pure speculation

 

[jayR]

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[belshawelk]

But the opportunity to build a shelter is before it. This is the subject here.

Just move to Arkansas. Nothing there to nuke.

 

[oremike]

My idea isn't to have an EOTWAWKI Bunker. More like a low impact, easy to heat and cool secure Hobbit house. Way out in the sticks off grid, on enough land to get land owner preference points.

 

[It-That]

My idea isn't to have an EOTWAWKI Bunker. More like a low impact, easy to heat and cool secure Hobbit house. Way out in the sticks off grid, on enough land to get land owner preference points.

This is the most realistic and achievable goal without some serious background in engineering or extremely high mechanical adeptuity.
Most people can't change the brushes on a regular AC motor, or understand power generation without being able to just buy a DIY "kit".. nevermind the impossibility of being able to pick up a working knowledge with radiation. Even if by chance you're a nuclear engineer by trade, there is the aspect of making/up keeping equipment with only whats available on hand