This list of Prisoner of War Camps, Italian Service Unit Camps, and Prisoner of War Hospitals is based on weekly reports located on NARA microfilm #66-538 (population lists June 1942-June 1946). Additional locations based on newspapers, interviews, and other NARA records (at College Park and Regional Archives). Many thanks to William Thomas of the Pikes Peak Library District for his assistance regarding Camp Carson.
The POW Camps in Colorado during World War II included:
Ault, Weld County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Bob's Creek, Lincoln County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Brighton, Adams and Weld Counties, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Brush, Morgan County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Carson (Camp Christopher "Kit"), near Colorado Springs, El Paso County, CO (base camp), now Fort Carson, an active military installation.
Center, Rio Grande and Saguache Counties, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Crowley, Crowley County, CO, 300 Jamaicans and POWs lived and worked at the National Sugar Manufacturing Company facility at Bob's Creek camp.
Deadman Mountain, Boulder County, CO (branch camp under Greeley)
Delta, Delta County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Eaton, Weld County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Fitzsimmons General Hospital, Denver, Denver County, CO, was US Army General Hospital; built in 1918, renamed in 1920, then renamed Fitzsimmons Army Hospital. Closed June 30, 1996 under the Defense Base Realignment and Closure Act (BRAC) of 1990. Rebuilt in/around 2000 as the Rocky Mountain Regional Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Fort Collins, Larimer County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Fraser, Grand County, CO (branch camp under Greeley)
Fruita, Mesa County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Galeton, Weld County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Gilcrest, Weld County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Glenwood Springs, Garfield County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Gould (Camp), Jackson County, CO (branch camp under Greeley)
Grand Junction, Mesa County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Greeley (Camp), Greeley, Weld County, CO (base camp)
Hale (Camp Irving), Pando, Eagle County, CO (branch camp under Trinidad, sometimes a base camp), dismantled in 1965 (see Pando)
Holly, Prowers County, CO (branch camp under Carson, later under Trinidad)
Johnstown, Larimer and Weld Counties, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Keenesburg, Weld County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Kersey, Weld County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Kremmling, Grand County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Lamar, Prowers County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Las Animas, Bent County, CO (branch camp under Trinidad)
Logan (Fort John A.), Denver, Denver County, CO (base, sometimes branch camp under Carson)
Longmont, Boulder and Weld Counties, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Loveland, Larimer County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Minturn, Eagle County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, CO (branch camp under Trinidad)
Montrose, Montrose County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Morgan (Fort), Morgan County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
New Castle, Garfield County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Ovid, Sedgwick County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Palisade, Mesa County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Pando, Eagle County, CO (branch camp under Greeley) (see Hale)
Pierce, Weld County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Pueblo Ordnance Depot, Pueblo, Pueblo County, CO (ISU) now Pueblo Chemical Depot
Rocky Ford, Otero County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Commerce City, Adams County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Springfield, Baca County, CO (branch camp under Trinidad,)
Sterling, Logan County, CO (branch camp under Carson, sometimes Scottsbluff, NE)
Sugar City, Crowley County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Trinidad (Camp), Trinidad, Las Animas County, CO (base camp)
Walden, Jackson County, CO (branch camp under Greeley)
Walsh, Baca County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Weston (Stonewall), Las Animas County, CO (branch camp under Trinidad)
Wiggins, Morgan County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Yuma, Yuma County, CO (branch camp under Carson)
Enemy alien internment camp:
Granada, Prowers County, CO (Japanese)
Trinidad, Las Animas County, CO (Japanese community with it's own post office, population brought from Granada for agricultural work)
Cemeteries:
Camp Carson, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, CO (four WWII POW burials transferred to Fort Riley, KS)
Camp Trinidad, Las Animas County, CO (4 German WWII POW burials transferred to Fort Riley, KS)
Fort Logan Post Cemetery, Denver (city and county), CO (One German WWII POW burial). Now Fort Logan National Cemetery)
There were 4 base camps, 46 branch camps, 1 hospital, 1 ISU, 1 internment location, and 3 cemeteries in CO. More information and source citations in my book titled Prisoner of War Camps Across America, available in Kindle format at Amazon. The updated version of the book is available at www.gentracer.org/milpublications.html
Also, my book American Prisoner of War Camps in Colorado is available at Amazon.
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