Coos Head Naval Station Site, Oregon

The Coos Head Naval Station was a land-based low-frequency submarine communications site that operated from 1958 to sometime in the 1980s. It was one of several underwater listening stations that were part of the Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) and the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS), which were used to track Soviet submarines. The site, at the entrance to the harbor at Coos Bay, has been used by the military since 1874. The Air National Guard took operational control of most of the property in 1987 and operated the facility until 1996. In 2005, the United States deeded the 43 acre Air National Guard portion of Coos Head to the Tribes. A small compound remains under the control of the Navy.