Vaults

List of known Vaults

Designation	Description/Fate	Location	Appearances
Los Angeles Vault	The Vault-Tec demonstration vault. It was not part of the experiment, and was the Master's vault under the Cathedral in Fallout.	Southern California, near Los Angeles (Cathedral)	Fallout
Vault 0	A special vault designed to "monitor and control" other vaults, maintain the geniuses of the pre-War United States in cryogenic stasis and improve the future Wasteland conditions with a robot army.	Cheyenne Mountain (Colorado)	Fallout Tactics
Vault 3	A control vault designed to open after 20 years, but kept closed longer due to the wishes of the vault inhabitants. However, an unplanned water leak forced the occupants to open in hopes of trading with the outside. Unfortunately, all of the vault's residents were massacred by a group of raiders known as the Fiends shortly after they opened the vault door.	Mojave Wasteland	Fallout: New Vegas
Vault 8	A control vault, intended to open and recolonize the surface after 10 years and is equipped with a GECK. Vault City is the result.	Northern Nevada Vault City	Fallout 2
Vault 11	This vault was a social experiment testing human nature - most specifically the ability to sacrifice oneself for others, and the ability to place ideals above one's own life.	Mojave Wasteland	Fallout: New Vegas
Vault 12	In order to study the effects of radiation on the selected population, the vault door was designed not to close properly. This is the Necropolis vault and a large population of ghouls was the result.	Bakersfield (Necropolis)	Fallout
Vault 13	Intended to stay closed for 200 years as a study of prolonged isolation, the broken water chip forced Overseer Jacoren to improvise and use the Vault Dweller as a pawn. Later study of the Vault 13 records by the Enclave led them to their current plan to end the war.	Southern California	Fallout Fallout 2
Vault 15	Intended to stay closed for 50 years and include people of radically diverse ideologies. Gathered from what Aradesh says in Fallout, he has quite a bit of multicultural flavoring to his speech. The birthplace of three raider groups and Shady Sands (later to become the New California Republic).	Southern California	Fallout Fallout 2
Vault 17	The vault was raided in 2154 and its inhabitants taken prisoner by the Master's Army. They were subsequently turned into super mutants. It is unknown what this vault's experiment was, or if it was one of the seventeen controlled vaults.	Unknown	Fallout: New Vegas (mentioned only)
Vault 19	The vault was segregated into two groups, Red and Blue. The groups lived in separate sections of the vault and the inhabitants may have been chosen due to pre-existing paranoia.	Mojave Wasteland	Fallout: New Vegas
Vault 21	This vault's purpose was gambling, reinforced by having only compulsive gamblers admitted as vault residents, and with all conflicts within the vault to be resolved through gambling. It is one of the few non-control vaults that didn't end in failure.	Las Vegas, Mojave Wasteland	Fallout: New Vegas
Vault 22	Apparently a vault designed to develop advanced agricultural technologies. Successful experiments were executed, creating strains of plants that could grow under artificial light. However, an experiment on pest control involving a genetically-manufactured spore annihilated or transformed the vault's inhabitants.	Mojave Wasteland	Fallout: New Vegas
Vault 27 (Fallout bible)	This vault would be overcrowded deliberately. 2000 people would be assigned to enter, double the total sustainable amount.	Unknown	Fallout Bible only
Vault 27 (Eden2012)	A heavily populated Vault-Tec Vault intended by the Enclave to act as a 'continuity locale' in the event things didn't go as planned for continuity of government.	Indianopolis.	Eden2012's fanon
Vault 29	No one in this vault was over the age of 15 when they entered. Parents were intentionally redirected to other vaults. Harold is believed to have come from this vault.	Colorado	Fallout Bible (first mentioned) Van Buren
Vault 34	The armory was overstocked with weapons and ammunition and not provided with a lock. The Boomers, the weapon-crazy inhabitants of Nellis Air Force Base, descend from the inhabitants of this vault.	Mojave Wasteland	Fallout Bible (first mentioned) Fallout: New Vegas
Vault 36	The food extruders were designed to produce only a thin, watery gruel.	Unknown	Fallout Bible only
Vault 42	No light bulbs of more than 40 watts were provided.	Unknown	Fallout Bible only
Vault 43	Populated by twenty men, ten women, and one panther.	Unknown	Penny Arcade
Vault 53	Most of the equipment was designed to break down every few months. While repairable, the breakdowns were intended to stress the inhabitants unduly.	Unknown	Fallout Bible and possibly on Vault-Tec east coast computers
Vault 55	All entertainment tapes were removed.	Unknown	Fallout Bible only
Vault 56	All entertainment tapes were removed except those of one particularly bad comic actor. Sociologists predicted failure before Vault 55.	Unknown	Fallout Bible only
Vault 68	Of the one thousand people who entered, there was only one woman.	Unknown	Fallout Bible and possibly in conversation with President Richardson.
Vault 69	Of the one thousand people who entered, there was only one man.	Unknown	Fallout Bible (first mentioned) Penny Arcade Van Buren concept art and possibly in conversation with President Richardson.
Vault 70'	All jumpsuit extruders fail after 6 months. Most of the inhabitants were Mormons. The city of New Canaan was founded by the vault dwellers after they left the vault.	Salt Lake City, Utah	Fallout Bible 0 Van Buren
Vault 76	This vault was designed as a control group for the vault experiment. Like Vault 3 and Vault 8, it was intended to open and re-colonize the surface after 20 years.	Unknown (Capital Wasteland?)	Mentioned in Fallout 3
Vault 77	Populated by one man and a crate full of puppets. In Fallout 3 a Vault 77 jumpsuit is acquirable at Paradise Falls.	Unknown	Penny Arcade
Vault 87	A Forced Evolutionary Virus research and testing facility	Capital Wasteland	Fallout 3
Vault 92	Populated largely by renowned musicians, this vault was a test bed for a white noise-based system for implanting combat-oriented posthypnotic suggestions.	Capital Wasteland	Fallout 3
Vault 99	Population conditioned to fear radiation, before being forced to face that fear when the vault flooded with irradiated water.	Point Lookout	Vault Villains
Vault 101	Evaluation of performance of an omnipotent, dictatorial overseer in a closed community. This vault was intended to never open.	Capital Wasteland	Fallout 3
Vault 106	Psychoactive drugs were released into the air filtration system 10 days after the door was sealed.	Capital Wasteland	Fallout Bible (first mention) 'Fallout 3
Vault 108	The vault houses a cloning lab and all (surviving) residents are clones of one man called Gary.	Capital Wasteland	Fallout 3
Vault 110	Long-term brainwashing techniques in an effort to document and cross-reference the countless aspects that conditions specific factors of the human mind's behavior	Chicago, Illinois	Eden2012's fanon
Vault 112	Home of the Tranquility Lane virtual reality simulator.	Capital Wasteland	Fallout 3
Vault 116	Control vault	Columbia Commonwealth (20 miles from the Capital Wasteland)	Spcoklan116's fanon
Secret Vault	A secret vault dedicated to protect high-members of Vault-Tec and used to research the latest technologies (like electrical laser weapons and instant regeneration) and the Forced Evolutionary Virus.	Los Ybanez, Texas	Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel
Unfinished Vault	A fenced construction area in a small cave north of Vaults 13 and 15. It may have been the first location of Vault 13 before its relocation.	Northern California	'Fallout 2
Vault prototype	A small Vault-Tec facility used as the base of operations by the Brotherhood of Steel	Texas	Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel

Source for canon vaults is Nukapedia.