Hunt (Camp)

Hunt (Camp) (HM163K)

Location: Jerome, ID 83338 Jerome County
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Country: United States of America
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N 42° 39.744', W 114° 17.106'

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Minidoka Interment National Monument

— National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —

Excluded from their west coast homes by military authorities, more than 9000 Japanese Americans occupied Hunt Relocation Camp 4 miles north of here between 1942 & 1945.
Until they could resettle in other places, they live in wartime tarpaper barracks in a dusty desert, where they helped meet a local farm labor crisis, planting and harvesting crops. Finally a 1945 Supreme Court decision held that United States citizens no longer could be confined that way, and their camp became Idaho's largest ghost town.
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HM NumberHM163K
Series This marker is part of the Idaho: Idaho State Historical Society series
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Marker Number340
Placed ByIdaho Historical Society and Idaho Transportation Department
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Tuesday, October 7th, 2014 at 7:44am PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)11T E 722501 N 4726899
Decimal Degrees42.66240000, -114.28510000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 42° 39.744', W 114° 17.106'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds42° 39' 44.64" N, 114° 17' 6.36" W
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Area Code(s)208
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 491-499 Hunt Rd, Jerome ID 83338, US
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