Facts and Figures About the New National Personnel Records Center
Building Facts
Address: 1 Archives Drive, St. Louis, MO 63138-1002
Dunn Road near the intersection of Interstate 270 and U.S. 367, next to Hazelwood East Middle and High Schools
Facility Size: 474,500 square feet (276,000 square feet for records storage), covers more than seven acres.
Size of Property: 23.5 acres
Owner/Developer: The Molasky Group of Companies
Tenants: the National Archives and 14 other Federal agencies
Cost: $115 million (construction). 20-year Federal government lease
Record Storage Areas: 15 separate record storage bays
Records Space Capacity: 2.3 million cubic feet of records on 385,000 shelves
Shelf Height: 29 feet high
Construction Facts
- 217,000 cubic yards of fill
- 30 miles of wick drains
- 2,000 tons of rebar
- 25,000 cubic yards of concrete
- 354 separate concrete wall tilt-panels weighing from 63-160 tons each
- 1,500 tons of structural steel
- 21.5 miles of fire sprinkler piping
- 12,318 sprinkler heads
- Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) Certified facility
Records Facts
Oldest Military Record: Dates from 1841
Oldest Civilian Record: Dates from 1821
Largest Individual Military Record: Air Force General Henry "Hap" Arnold, 6,044 pages
545 miles: Distance if all 2.3 million cubic feet of record boxes were placed end-to-end (St. Louis, MO to Dallas, TX)
1,500,000: Number of records requests received at the National Personnel Records Center annually (5,000 – 6,000 per day)
56,000,000+: Number of individual military personnel files
100 million: Estimated total number of military and civil service personnel files
6.2 billion: Number of pages of documents JUST in the military personnel files
9 billion: Estimated total number of pages of record material in facility
6.5 million: Number of military personnel records recovered from the 1973 Fire
18 million: Estimated number of military personnel records lost in the 1973 Fire
2,300: Number of 53-foot trailers needed to move all 2.3 million cubic feet of records to 1 Archives Drive
115,000: Number of record streamliner carts to relocate 2.3 million cubic feet of records
6,000: Number of cubic feet of records moved each day
383: Number of 8-hour workdays to fill up 1 Archives Drive at 6,000 CF per day
49: Number of 53-foot trailer loads of furniture, equipment, and professional gear to move over 600 NARA staff to new facility
5: Number of days to relocate over 600 NARA staff from Page Avenue Facility to 1 Archives Drive