Jumbo
Jumbo is in Socorro, New Mexico.Photo: Samat Jain, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include McDonald Ranch House.
McDonald Ranch House
Building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The McDonald Ranch House in the Oscura Mountains of Socorro County, New Mexico, was the location of assembly of the world's first nuclear weapon. The active components of the Trinity test "gadget", a plutonium Fat Man-type bomb similar to that later dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, were assembled there on July 13, 1945. McDonald Ranch House is situated 2 miles southeast of Jumbo.
Jumbo
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: disused containment vessel at the Trinity Site
- Categories: containment structure and tourism
- Location: Socorro, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.67313° or 33° 40′ 23″ northLongitude
-106.47641° or 106° 28′ 35″ westOpen location code
855MMGFF+7COpenStreetMap ID
node 938299288OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q135990814
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