Topaz War Relocation Center, Utah
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The site of an internment camp that held 9000 Japanese-Americans during World War II. Remnants at the site consist of concrete slabs and some metal debris, scattered through the brush, at the northwest corner of the dry and sparse agricultural zone around Delta, in the Sevier Desert. A prominent monument stands at the edge of the site. One of several such camps located in remote regions in the West, that imprisoned a total of 110,000 people between 1942 and 1946.