[1] The retained area is the remainder of 341,726 acres (1,382.92 km2) federally acquired in 1942 under eminent domain at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (Oglala Sioux).

[2] Firing took place within most of the present day Badlands National Park with old car bodies and 55 gallon drums painted bright yellow for targets.

Family housing for the detachment "was on the western edge of Wall", a nearby town,[7] and barracks initially used for the station were shared by Boeing facility contractors for the Ellsworth Air Force Base 850th SMS's HGM-25A Titan I ICBMs.

[10] After the Badlands Bomb Plot closed, "the USAF declared most of the range excess property" in 1968, and Public Law 90-468 restored control of 202,357 acres (818.91 km2) to the Oglala Sioux Tribe.

[12] A 2008 USAF & Oglala Sioux agreement initiated "a three-month $1.6 million project to remove unexploded ordnance" on the Air Force Retained Area.