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Digital History>eXplorations>Japanese American Internment>Internment Resources>Chart Showing Relocation Center Population Data
See also: Map
showing Department of Justice Internment Camps and Relocation
Centers
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| Eleanor
Roosevelt at Gila River, Arizona at Japanese,American Internment
Center, 04/23/1943
Item from Collection FDR-PHOCO: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Public Domain Photographs, 1882 - 1962 |
Statistics
State |
Name
of Camp |
Opened |
Closed |
Total
Time Open |
Peak
Population |
| Arkansas |
Rohwer |
Sept.
18, 1942
|
Nov.
30, 1945 |
3
years, 3 mos. |
8,475 |
Jerome |
Oct.
6, 1942
|
June
30, 1944
|
1
year, 8 mos |
8,497 |
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| Arizona |
Poston |
May
8, 1942 |
Nov.
28, 1945 |
3
years, 6 mos. |
17,814 |
| Gila
River |
July
20, 1942 |
Nov.
10, 1945 |
3
years, 4 mos. |
13,348 |
|
| California |
Tule
Lake |
May
27, 1942
|
Mar.
20, 1946 |
3
years, 10 mos. |
18,789 |
Manzanar |
Mar.
21, 1942
|
Nov.
21, 1945 |
3
years, 8 mos. |
10,046 |
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| Colorado |
Amache
(aka Granada) |
Aug.
27, 1942
|
Oct.
15, 1945 |
3
years, 2 mos. |
7,318 |
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| Idaho |
Minidoka |
Aug.
10, 1942
|
Oct.
28, 1945 |
3
years, 2 mos. |
10,046 |
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| Utah |
Topaz |
Sept.11,
1942
|
Oct.
31, 1945 |
3
years, 1 mos. |
8,130 |
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| Wyoming |
Heart
Mountain |
Aug.
12, 1942
|
Nov.
10, 1945 |
3
years, 3 mos. |
10,767 |
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| Total
People under WRA control |
120,313 |
In
all, 120,313 people were under WRA control.
- 90,491
were transfered from assembly centers
- 17,491
were taken directly from their homes
- 5,918
were born to imprisoned parents
- 1,735
were transferred from INS internment camps
- 1,579
were moved here after being sent from assembly centers to work
crops
- 1,275
were transfered from penal and medial institutions
- 1,118
were taken from Hawaii
- 219,
mostly non-Japanese spouses, entered voluntarily.
Of
these 120,313:
- 54,127
returned to the West Coast after their incarceration
- 52,798
relocated to the interior
- 4,724
moved (or were moved) to Japan
- 3,121
were sent to INS internment camps
- 2,355
joined the armed forces
- 1,862
died during imprisonment
- 1,322
were sent to institutions
- 4
were classified as "unauthorized departures."
Source:
Roger Daniels, Sandra Taylor, and Harry Kitano (Eds.) ; Japanese
Americans, from Relocation to Redress; University of Utah
Press; Salt Lake City, Utah; 1986.
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