Hawthorne Army Depot

Hawthorne Army Depot, also called Area 2 is a military base in southwest Nevada, mentioned by the Boomers and Rose of Sharon Cassidy.

Background
Located 250 miles northwest of Las Vegas along Highway 95, the depot was established in 1930 as Naval Ammunition Depot Hawthorne (Hawthorne NAD). Some time between then and the Great War, command of this facility was transferred to the Department of the Army.

According to Pete at Nellis Air Force Base, Area 2 was a huge military depot in Nevada, located many miles away from the Nellis AFB. The Boomers obtained their Howitzers and ammunition for them from it, dragging them across the Wasteland to Nellis AFB over several weeks. Cass identifies the weapons as originating from the Hawthorne Army Depot, a military base with a lot of history.

Appearances
The Hawthorne Army Depot is only mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the scenes
Area 2 is located in the Nevada Test Site in the Mojave Desert. The area is located 18 miles southeast of Area 51 and is part of Nellis Air Force Base. Area 2 has been the United States nuclear weapons testing facility since the 1950s with over 100 visible craters. During the testing of U.S. nuclear weapons, all of the bombs were stored in the facility 2 miles from testing site, the facility is unnamed and is only referred to as Area 2.