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The Cape Caneveral Launch Complexes are numbered from 1 to 47, but curiously some numbers seem to have been skipped. The missing numbers are LC-7, LC-8, LC-23, LC-24, LC-27, LC-28, LC-33, LC-35, LC-38, LC-42 and LC-44.
Why is that? Where these sites planned but scrapped before being built?
You can read about all the launch complexes at this Air Force Space Museum page: http://afspacemuseum.org/ccafs/
The list is lengthy, but to sum up, as you surmised, some were planned and never built (for example, 7 & 8), others just no longer exist (for example, 44).
