About the Sites

Most of the 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans forcibly removed from the West Coast during the spring and summer of 1942 were sent to concentration camps—ten prison camps with military-style barracks and armed guards, located in remote and isolated parts of the country. Incarceration usually began with a stay of about three months in temporary Assembly Centers located at racetracks, fairgrounds, and stockyards while arrangements for the camps were made.

More than 5,500 Japanese nationals (Issei) were held in numerous temporary Immigration Detention Stations, Department of Justice Internment Camps, and U.S. Army Internment Camps.

While no mass removal and incarceration occurred in Hawai‘i, approximately 1,200 Japanese and Japanese Americans were arrested on the islands and held at various detention centers. Most were eventually sent to mainland concentration camps until the war ended.

War Relocation Authority Camps

Gila River
Granada (Amache)
Heart Mountain
Jerome
Manzanar
Minidoka
Poston (Colorado River)
Rohwer
Topaz
Tule Lake

Department of Justice Camps

Crystal City (Texas)
Fort Lincoln (North Dakota)
Fort Missoula (Montana)
Fort Stanton (New Mexico)
Kenedy (Texas)
Kooskia (Idaho)
Old Raton Ranch (New Mexico)
Santa Fe (New Mexico)
Seagoville (Texas)
Temporary Assembly Centers
Fresno
Marysville
Mayer
Merced
Owens Valley
Parker Dam
Pinedale
Pomona
Portland
Puyallup (Camp Harmony)
Sacramento
Salinas
Santa Anita
Stockton
Tanforan
Tulare
Turlock

Citizen Isolation Centers

Leupp (Arizona)
Moab (Utah)
U.S. Army Internment Camps
Camp Blanding (Florida)
Camp Forrest (Tennessee)
Camp Livingston (Louisiana)
Camp McCoy (Wisconsin)
Florence (Arizona)
Fort Bliss (Texas)
Fort Howard (Maryland)
Fort Lewis (Washington)
Fort McDowell (California)
Fort Meade (Maryland)
Fort Richardson (Alaska)
Fort Sam Houston (Texas)
Fort Sill (Oklahoma)
Griffith Park (California)
Honouliuli (Hawaii)
Lordsburg (New Mexico)
Sand Island (Hawaii)
Stringtown (Oklahoma)

Immigration Detention Stations

East Boston
Ellis Island
San Francisco
San Pedro
Seattle
Sharp Park (California)
Tuna Canyon (California)