Naval Weapons Station Yorktown

Welcome to Naval Weapons Station Yorktown

The land of Naval Weapons Station Yorktown is rich in colonial history. The station sits amidst a setting of natural beauty surrounded by the distant echo of the first settlers in Virginia and the battle cries of the Revolutionary War. Long before the world ever conceived of such things as the testing and evaluation that now go on at the weapons station, the infantry of the American Revolution and the Civil War slogged along the Old Williamsburg Road where today it runs through the station. The oldest structure onboard the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station is the Lee House, built around 1649, where many generations of the family lived out their lives before the property was acquired by the U.S. government.

Installation Information

Naval Weapons Station Yorktown hosts 37 tenant commands which include the Naval Munitions Command, the Naval Ophthalmic Support and Training Activity, the Marine Corps Second Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team, Fleet Industrial Supply Center Detachment, Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group, Naval Expeditionary Medical Support Command, Navy Cargo Handling Battalion One and 19 departments.

P.O. Drawer 160
Yorktown, VA 23691-0160

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Testing will be conducted March 5-8 //

Naval Weapon Station (WPNSTA) Yorktown is planning to conduct a vibration and noise measurement program at on- and off-base locations, March 5-9, to document the effects from open and buried detonations to the permitted Net Explosive Weight (NEW) limit at the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) range. The purpose of this effort is to evaluate vibration and noise levels [resulting from] EOD detonation operations at the maximum allowed NEW limits and resulting impacts on the surrounding community.