From referencing the National Park Service map, the only internment camp in the Dust Bowl region appears to be at Granada, Colorado.
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Amache (Granada), CO
Opened: August 24, 1942.
Closed: October 15, 1945.
Peak population: 7,318.
Source
Map Source
Egan, Timothy. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 2006.
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