Anonymous ID: 30bb24 Feb. 12, 2025, 5:38 p.m. No.22572254   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2284 >>2288

>>22572206

There's also another underground archive of govt records.

 

Lees Summit MO

https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2012/07/23/working-in-the-national-archives-caves/

 

There's also another one closer to DC- will find and post

Anonymous ID: 30bb24 Feb. 12, 2025, 5:43 p.m. No.22572288   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2318

>>22572254

Today, the National Archives has four underground facilities. In 2003 the Archives opened an underground FRC facility in Lenexa, Kansas. In addition to serving as a records center, Lenexa has two archival cold storage rooms. With temperatures maintained at 25°F and 35°F, staff have nicknamed the space the "Ice Cube."

 

In addition to Lee's Summit and Lenexa, a third cave in the region, in Kansas City itself, opened in 2012.

 

The Kansas City FRC is in "Subtropolis," another excavated mine. In addition to having sufficient space and conditions to store records, Subtropolis—which is dubbed the "World's Largest Underground Business Complex"—has several miles of illuminated, paved roads and railroad tracks; houses a paintball and laser tag course; and holds an annual 5k and 10k Groundhog Run.

 

In 2008, a limestone cave in Valmeyer, Illinois—about 40 miles southeast of St. Louis, Missouri—opened as an annex to the National Personnel Records Center for records of former military and civilian employees of the federal government. This was the first time the Archives used underground space outside the Kansas City area.

 

https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2016/spring/historian-frcs.html