3 installations

Military bases near El Paso, TX

3 mapped installations within approximately 100 miles of the El Paso, TX postal-place center, ordered by straight-line distance.

Understand the installation mix

The locations in this directory span 1 Air Force, 2 Army. Those categories describe the map group, while each guide explains the public mission and support context. Joint bases appear in the Joint category.

Fort Bliss

The main community is adjacent to El Paso; training land extends into New Mexico.

Official sources: Fort Bliss: MilitaryINSTALLATIONS overview

White Sands Missile Range

The headquarters area is east of Las Cruces in the Tularosa Basin, with El Paso farther south.

Official sources: White Sands Missile Range: MilitaryINSTALLATIONS overview

Holloman Air Force Base

Holloman is in Otero County west of Alamogordo, New Mexico, between the broader Las Cruces and El Paso region and southern New Mexico communities.

Official sources: Holloman AFB: MilitaryINSTALLATIONS overview

Installation guides near El Paso, TX

Army

Fort Bliss

El Paso, Texas

Approximately 8 miles from the city postal-place center, straight line.

Supports rapid deployment and redeployment of forces. Provides installation infrastructure and readiness services.

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Army

White Sands Missile Range

Las Cruces, New Mexico

Approximately 46 miles from the city postal-place center, straight line.

Conducts developmental and operational test and evaluation. Supports emerging technology training and multi-service test customers.

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Plan around your actual assignment

A base name or city is a starting point. Identify the gaining organization, reporting destination and support community before choosing lodging or housing. Training sites, Reserve locations and permanent installations may have different arrangements. Use the installation guides for the published destination labels, official contacts and a saveable arrival checklist.

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Coverage and distance method

This is a curated directory, not an inventory of every military property. State lists use the state named in the installation’s listed community and do not describe every boundary or satellite site.

Metro lists include mapped points within 100 miles of an approximate center averaged from GeoNames postal-place records for El Paso, TX. A straight-line radius is not a metropolitan boundary or a driving commute. Installation map points do not identify entry gates.

Postal places adapted from GeoNames under CC BY 4.0.