A county-by-county inventory of suspected and confirmed military sites closed prior to 1988. The information comes from the Army Corps of Engineers Formerly Used Defense Sites database,
obtained by The Bee through the federal Freedom of Information Act. The database was updated in April 2006. California has 1,094 of these sites, more than any other state.
Information on each site comes directly from the database and does not reflect independent verification by The Bee or any updates the government may have in other records.
Click a county's name, either on the map or this list, to see the county's former military sites
