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Chapter 12 Topaz Relocation Center The Topaz or Central Utah Relocation Center was located in west-central Utah, in Millard County near the town of Delta, 140 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. Named after Topaz Mountain, 9 miles northwest, the relocation center was briefly known as the "Abraham Relocation Center," after a nearby settlement (Figure 12.1). Center is about 4600 feet and the native vegetation consists mainly of high desert brush. The 19,800-acre relocation center reserve was a mixture of public domain land, farms acquired by the county for non-payment oftaxes, and several privately-held parcels purchased for a dollar an acre (Arrington 1962). Construction of the relocation center was begun July 10, 1942, by the California firm Daley Brothers with a crew of 800. The extremely flat terrain of the relocation center lies within the Sevier Desert, part of the Basin and Range province that was once covered by Pleistocene Lake Bonneville. An "Old River Bed" depicted on maps less than a mile west ofthe site drains northward to the Topaz Figure 12.1. Sign at the Great Basin Museum in Delta, Utah. The relocation center was in operation from September 11, 1942, to October 31, 1945. The maximum Slough. The most prominent physical landmark in the vicinity is Smelter Knolls, 4 miles west. Elevation at the Topaz Relocation 259 population was 8,130; most of the internees were from the San Francisco Bay area. A total of 623 buildings were constructed during TOPAZ RELOCATION CENTER t N I I () .~ \ h II / ' SmalI~ ~// Dump BLM Land .......... ~ (jPf: :r7 · r--------- ( I .'\ .-----1 \) I State ~__, I I Land I~I : ( 'r---..l--:J BLM I}· I Land •• .-J 1/ 1 Private Land Private Land L---------.:;~----_:Ir-~W~.7~~~N~~~&roffi~----~I--r-----r-----------,-JI---­ I BLM Land Relocation Center LropazMuseum Association I r-" BLM I Land I I I I _., I I I L_, L_, I I I I I I I I L ___ ~ -----, BLM I Land I ____..J Private Land Private Land Wei Tur1

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