Photograph of Rohwer War Relocation Center — Photograph by Brandonrush, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Rohwer Relocation Center Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Rohwer War Relocation Center was a World War II Japanese American concentration camp located in rural southeastern Arkansas, in Desha County. It was in operation from September 18, 1942, until November 30, 1945, and held as many as 8,475 Japanese Americans forcibly evacuated from California.”
Wikipedia article Rohwer War Relocation Center, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Desha County · listed in 1974 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. AR 1, Rohwer, 71670
When was it listed? July 1974
Category. site
Township. Richland township
National Register reference number. 74000474 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Rohwer Relocation Center Site between 2002 and 2011, burning about 140 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 June 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 April 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 October 2010	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 October 2010	Debris and open burning	130 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	DESHA

Every fire recorded in Desha County

Storms near this property

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rohwer, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 3 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Rohwer	$50,000	Roofs were peeled back or blown off of several outbuildings and several trees were snapped.
March 2026	Hail	Rohwer	-	Lime-sized hail fell in the town of Rohwer.
July 2021	Heavy Rain	Rohwer	-	The COOP observer at Rohwer reported 6.55 inches of rain in the last 24 hours ending at 845 AM CST.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Rohwer	-	Highway 1 was under water and imipassible, and eventually closed.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Rohwer	-	A few trees were down in the area.
May 2015	Heavy Rain	Rohwer	-	Heavy rainfall of 2.23 inches was observed.
August 2012	Heavy Rain	Rohwer	-	Rainfall measured 4.99 inches in 24 hours.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Rohwer	-	Water was reported over one lane of Arkansas Highway 1.
March 2018	Hail	Rohwer	-	no account filed
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Rohwer	-	no account filed
April 2000	Flash Flood	Rohwer	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Desha County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Rohwer Relocation Center Memorial Cemetery	0.5 miles	1992
	Kemp Cotton Gin Historic District	0.7 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000474 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Desha County	All 26 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.