World War II Facilities
Map-
Google Map
Click on the map below to see the location of facilities across the U.S.:
World War II Facilities Map-
Knight LAB Map
This map, created through the Northwestern University Knight Lab, shows eight kinds of incarceration camps that held more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent during World War II.
See the Map
historic sites
Many of the War Relocation Authority Camps where people of Japanese ancestry were sent during WWII are now National Historic Landmarks, Monuments, or Sites that can be visited.
They are listed below in alphabetical order by state with links to their websites. Some do not have visitor centers or much of a web presence yet. The best source for general information about Gila River and Poston in Arizona and Jerome in Arkansas is the National Park Service’s “Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of WWII Japanese American Relocation Sites.”
For information about the various other types of WWII assembly, detention, internment, isolation camps or prisons, see “Sites of Incarceration” in the Densho Encyclopedia.
Arkansas:
Rohwer
Colorado:
Granada (Camp Amache)
Idaho:
Minidoka (National Historic Site)
Utah:
Topaz
Wyoming:
Heart Mountain