JAPANESE INTERNMENT CAMPS

JAPANESE INTERMENT CAMP NAMES

• Tule Lake (largest camp)
• Amache (smallest camp)
• Manzanar
• Heart Mountain
• Gila River

JAPANESE INTERMENT CAMPS ; PART II

• Jerome
• Minidoka
• Poston
• Rohwer
• Topaz

MANZANAR, CA

• 6,000 acres
• Opened: March 22, 1942
• Date of peak: September 22, 1942
• Closing date: November 21, 1945
• Origin of population: mostly came from LA (8,828)

AMACHE, CO

• Opened: 1942
• Closed: 1945
• Smallest internment camp
• It became the tenth largest concentration of people in Colorado

TULE LAKE, CA

• Opened: May 27, 1942
• Closed: March 20, 1946
• 26,000 acres
• Mostly from Sacramento (4,671)
• Climate: relatively mild for a war relocation center

HEART MOUNTAIN, WY

• 46,000 acres
• Opened: August 12, 1942
• Closed: November 10, 1945
• Most people were from LA ( 6,448)
• Climate: severe, even by WRA standards; winter lows dipping to -30 degrees

TOPAZ, UTAH

• Opened: September 11, 1942
• Covered about 19,800 acres
• Population peak: March 1943
• Peak number; 8,130
• The population of the camp was primarily from California

JEROME, AR

• 10,000 acres
• Population peak; 8,497
• Opening date; October 6, 1942
• Closing date: June 30, 1944
• Date of peak: February 11, 1943

Rohwer, ar

• 10,161 acres
• Date of peak: March 11, 1943
• Opening date: September 18, 1942
• Closing date: November 30, 1945
• Origin of camp population: Mostly from LA (4,324) and San Joaquin (3,516) 

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