Heart Mountain Relocation Center
The Heart Mountain War Relocation Center, named after nearby Heart Mountain and located midway between the northwest Wyoming towns of Cody and Powell, was one of ten concentration camps used for the internment of Japanese Americans evicted during World War II from their local communities in the West Coast Exclusion Zone by the executive order of President Franklin Roosevelt.Photo: Jeremykemp, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Protected area
- Description: American concentration camp
- Also known as: “Heart Mountain Concentration Camp”, “Heart Mountain internment camp”, “Heart Mountain Relocation Center Memorial”, and “Heart Mountain War Relocation Center”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ralston.
Ralston
Hamlet
Ralston is a census-designated place in Park County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 280 at the 2010 census. Ralston is situated 5 miles northeast of Heart Mountain Relocation Center.
Heart Mountain Relocation Center
- Categories: concentration camp, Japanese Americans relocation camp, historic site, and monument
- Location: Park, Wyoming, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.67035° or 44° 40′ 13″ northLongitude
-108.94951° or 108° 56′ 58″ westOpen location code
85PHM3C2+45OpenStreetMap ID
node 672403833OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monumentWikidata ID
Q5692049
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Portuguese—“Heart Mountain Relocation Center” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Centre de Concentració de Heart Mountain”
- Chinese: “心山”
- Chinese: “心臟山遷移中心”
- German: “Heart Mountain Relocation Center”
- German: “Heart Mountain Umzugszentrum”
- Japanese: “ハートマウンテン収容所”
- Japanese: “ハートマウンテン強制収容所”
- Japanese: “ハートマウンテン戦争移住センター”
- Japanese: “ハートマウンテン移住センター”
- Japanese: “ワイオミング州ハートマウンテン収容所”
- Persian: “مرکز جابهجایی کوه هارت”
- Portuguese: “Centro de Realocação Heart Mountain”
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