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Jerome Arkansas |
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Location: Chicot and Drew Counties, Arkansas Environmental Conditions: Jerome War Relocation Center is located 12 miles from the Mississippi River at an elevation of 130 feet. The area was once covered with forests, but is now primarily agricultural land. The Big and Crooked Bayous flow from north to south in the central and eastern part of the former relocation center. Acreage: 10,000 Opened: October 6, 1942 Closed: June 1944 Max. Population: 8,497 (November 1942) Demographics: Most people interned at Jerome War Relocation Center came from Los Angeles, Fresno, and Sacramento counties in California. Most came to Jerome via the Santa Anita and Fresno assembly centers. 811 people came from Hawaii. |
The Jerome War Relocation Camp was located in Southeast Arkansas in Chicot and Drew Counties. The Jerome site consisted of tax-delinquent lands situated in the marshy delta of the Mississippi River's flood plain that had been purchased in the 1930s by the Farm Security Administration. |
The constant movement of camp populations makes completely accurate statistics difficult. As of January 1943, the camp had a population of 7,932 people. Most had been farmers before the war. Fourteen percent were over the age of sixty, and there were 2,483 school age children in the camp, thirty-one percent of the total population. Thirty-nine percent of the residents were under the age of nineteen. Sixty-six percent were American citizens, and the remainder were aliens. | Notable Jerome internees |
* Violet Kazue de Cristoforo (1917–2007), a Japanese American poet. Also interned at Tule Lake |
Grace KATO Izumi |
Kazuko Tsubouchi Fujishima |