Redstone Arsenal
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United States Army post and census-designated place in Alabama
Key facts
- Type
- Army post
- Controlled by
- United States Army
- Website
- installations .militaryonesource .mil /in-depth-overview /redstone-arsenal
- Built
- 1941 , (85 years ago) ( 1941 )
- In use
- 1941–present
- Garrison
- U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command , U.S. Army Materiel Command , Missile Defense Agency , U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command , DEVCOM Aviation and Missile Center
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- military base
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Madison County
- Population
- 837
- Area
- 20.13106
- Operator
- United States Army
- Official website
- home.army.mil/redstone/index.php
- Image
- Redstone Arsenal bldg 7101 04.jpg
- Households
- 367
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- Commons category
- Redstone Arsenal
- native label
- Redstone Arsenal
- inception
- 1941-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 0.1855
- water area
- 0.037339
- per capita income
- 36101
- mean age
- 28.7
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Encyclopedic overview
Redstone Arsenal is a United States Army base and census-designated place in Madison County, Alabama adjacent to Huntsville, Alabama in the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge. It is part of the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. The arsenal hosts over 75 tenant agencies including many that are part of the Department of Defense such as the United States Space Command, NASA's largest field center (the Marshall Space Flight Center), and Department of Justice agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The arsenal has a government and contractor workforce that averages 36,000 to 40,000 personnel daily. The base has benefited from decisions by the Defense Base Realignment and Closure Commission and has a residential population of 837 as of 2020.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Redstone Arsenal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.