Ten years later, the county’s Civil Defense shelter officer told the Democrat and Chronicle there were 584 shelters with enough room for 376,534 people. By those accounts, there were anywhere from 400 to 600.Ī Civil Defense newsletter from January 1964 read that there were 390 “fully-stocked shelters” in the county that could sustain 192,130 people for two weeks. A county spokesperson acknowledged that the county stopped maintaining public shelters after what was known as the federal Office of Civil Defense was dissolved in the 1970s, and that a list of shelter locations has been lost to time.Īrchives of news articles and Civil Defense newsletters that were issued quarterly offer the best estimates of the number of shelters. There is no telling precisely how many public fallout shelters existed in Monroe County.
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