National Park Service: CCC and the National Park Service

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    Acknowledgements

    Brief History of the CCC

    National Park Service Role

    NPS Camps

    Contributions

    Overall Accomplishments

     Appendix C

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The Civilian Conservation Corps and
the National Park Service, 1933-1942:
An Administrative History
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APPENDIX C: SELECTED ITEMS ON CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS CAMP LOCATIONS

The following four tables in this appendix have been retyped; however, original wording and spelling have been retained. Minor explanatory additions have sometimes been made.

Table C-1: Directory of All CCC Camps Supervised by the NPS (updated to December 31, 1941). (~675K)

Table C-2: Projects Now in Operation Including CCC and Emergency Relief Administration under Supervision of National Park Service Branch of Recreation and Land Planning, May 12, 1942.

Table C-3: Number of CCC Camps by Fiscal Year.

Table C-4: Distrubtions of Standard CCC Camps in the Continental United States.

Table C-2

MAY 12, 1942
PROJECTS NOW IN OPERATION INCLUDING CCC AND ERA
UNDER SUPERVISION OF NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
BRANCH OF RECREATION AND LAND PLANNING

Regions NP
Camps NP(D)
Camps SP
Camps CP
Camps MA
Camps LD
Proj. State Camp or Project Number

I 0 0 2 0 0 0 Alabama SP-6,17

III 1 0 0 0 0 0 Arizona NP-2

III 0 0 1 0 0 0 Arkansas SP-9

IV 6 3 0 0 0 0 California NP-1,9,11,20,28,32 NP(D)-1,2,3

II 2 0 0 0 0 0 Colorado NP-11,12

III 1 0 0 0 0 0 Colorado NP-13

I 0 1 0 0 0 0 Connecticut NP(D)-1

I 0 0 0 0 0 0 Delaware No camps

I 0 1 0 0 0 0 Dist. of Col. NP(D)-1

I 0 0 1 1 0 0 Florida SP-4 CP-1

I 1 1 0 0 0 0 Georgia NP-6 NP(D)-1

IV 0 0 0 0 0 0 Idaho No camps

II 0 1 3 3 0 0 Illinois NP(D)-1 SP-11,60,61 CP-7,9,11

II 0 2 1 0 0 2 Indiana NP(D)-1,2 SP-9 LD-5,6

II 0 0 0 0 0 0 Iowa No camps

II 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kansas No camps

I 2 2 1 0 0 1 Kentucky NP-2,4 NP(D)-1,2 SP-10 LD-4

I 0 0 0 0 0 0 Louisiana No camps

I 1 0 0 0 0 0 Maine NP-1

I 0 3 0 0 0 0 Maryland NP(D)-1,2,3 CPS-3

I 0 0 0 0 0 0 Massachusetts No camps

II 0 0 1 1 0 2 Michigan SP-3 CP-1 LD-4,6

II 1 0 1 0 0 0 Minnesota NP-1 SP-19

I 0 1 0 0 0 0 Mississippi NP(D)-1

II 2 0 2 0 0 1 Missouri NP-1,3 SP-22,27 LD-6

IV 1 0 0 0 0 0 Montana NP-9

II 0 0 0 0 0 1 Nebraska LD-5

III 1 0 0 0 0 0 Nevada NP-7

I 1 0 0 0 0 0 New Hampshire NP(D)-1

I 0 1 1 0 0 0 New Jersey NP(D)-1 SP-4

III 0 1 1 0 0 0 New Mexico NP(D)-1 SP-8

I 0 2 2 0 0 0 New York NP(D)-1,2 SP-47,58

I 3 12 0 0 0 0 North Carolina NP-5,21,22 CPS-19 NP(D)-1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,11,12,13

II 0 0 0 0 0 0 North Dakota No camps

I 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ohio No camps

III 0 0 1 0 0 0 Oklahoma SP-21

I 0 0 1 0 0 0 Oregon SP-21

I 0 0 0 0 0 0 Pennsylviana No camps

I 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rhode Island No camps

I 0 0 0 0 0 1 South Carolina LD-12

II 0 0 1 0 0 0 South Dakota SP-4

I 4 0 1 0 0 0 Tennessee NP-2,4,11,15 TVA-P-16

III 0 3 2 0 0 0 Texas NP(D)-1,2,3 SP-61,65

III 2 0 0 0 1 0 Utah NP-4,7 MA-1

I 0 0 0 0 0 0 Vermont No camps

I 3 11 0 0 0 0 Virginia NP-15,27,29 NP(D)-1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 CPS-19

IV 3 0 0 0 0 0 Washington NP-8,9,10

I 0 0 1 0 0 0 West Virginia SP-5

II 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wisconsin No camps

II 1 0 0 0 0 0 Wyoming NP-1

NUMBER OF CAMPS BY REGION

Regions NP Camps NP(D) Camps SP Camps CP Camps MA Camps LD Projects

I 15 35 9 1 0 2

II 6 3 9 4 0 6

III 5 4 5 0 1 0

IV 10 3 1 0 0 0

36 45 24 5 1 8

TERRITORIAL PROJECTS

Hawaii National Park NP-1

Territory of Hawaii TH(D)-1
TH(D)-2
TH(D)-3
TH(D)-10 Scofield Reservation
Keanae
Kauai
(Enrollees transfered to HNP-1, 60 man side camp at TH-10 for defense work)

Virgin Islands V-2

EIGHTEENTH PERIOD CHANGES NOT CONSUMMATED

Camps to be Occupied Camps to be Evacuated

Florida

SP-4 Myakka River State Forest Park

Kentucky

NP-4 Mammoth Cave National Park

North Carolina

NP(D)-14
NP(D)-15 Fort Bragg
Camp Davis

Tennessee

NP-4 Chickamauga-Chattanooga Nat'l. Mil. Park

Utah

NP(D)-1 Dugway Proving Ground
(to be established June 1) MA-1 Provo River Metropolitan Park
(to be terminated June 1)

NINETEENTH PERIOD CHANGES NOT CONSUMMATED

Camps to be Occupied Camps to be Evacuated

Alabama

SP-6
SP-17 Gulf State Park
Cheaha State Park

California

NP-2
NP-21
NP-31
SP-4 Sequoia National Park
Yosemite National Park
Kings Canyon National Park
Cuyamaca State Park NP-11
NP-25
NP-34 Death Valley National Monument
Pinnacles National Monument
Kings Canyon National Park

Colorado

NP-13 Mesa Verde National Park

Florida

CP-1 Matheson Hummock State Park

Georgia

NP-6 Hard Labor Creek RDA

Illinois

CP-7
CP-9
CP-11
SP-11
SP-60
SP-61 Des Plaines
Thornton
Sag Forest
Giant City State Park
Kickapoo State Park
Pere Marquette State Park

Michigan

SP-3 Dodge Burner

Minnesota

NP-1 St. Croix RDA

Missouri

SP-22 Dr. Edmund A. Babler State Park

Montana

NP-11 Glacier National Park

New York

SP-47 Clarence Fahnstock Memorial State Park

North Carolina

NP-22 Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Oregon

SP-9 Silver Creek Falls State Park

Tennessee

NP-15
TVA-P-16 Montgomery Bell RDA
Booker T. Washington State Park

Utah

NP-7 Arches National Monument

Washington

NP-11 Mount Rainier National Park

Wyoming

NP-12
NP-16 Grand Teton National Park
Yellowstone National Park

SUMMARY OF CHANGES FOR PERIOD APRIL 23 TO MAY 12, 19420

IN OUT

Ind.
Ind.
Miss.
N.M.
N.C.
Va. NP(D)-1
NP(D)-2
NP(D)-1
NP(D)-1
NP(D)-11
NP(D)-12 Camp Atterbury
Camp Atterbury
Keelser Field
Air Corps Bombing Range
Marine Corps Training Base
Chopawamsic 5/1/42
5/1/42
4/30/42
5/6/42
5/1/42
4/25/42 Calif.
Ga.
Ind.
Miss.
N.M.
N.Y.
N.Y.
N.C.
Va. NP-25
SP-15
NP-1
SP-11
NP-1
NP-2
SP-36
NP-23
NP-16 Pinnacles Natl. Mon.
Ft. Mountain St. Pk.
Versailles RDA
Magnolia St. Pk.
Carlsbad Cavern NP
Saratoga NHP
Fair Haven Beach SP
Great Smoky Mtns NP
Chopawamsic 4/25/42
4/30/42
4/30/42
4/30/42
5/5/42
5/5/42
5/6/42
4/30/42
4/25/42

Table C-3

NUMBER OF CCC CAMPS BY FISCAL YEARS

Fiscal
Year National
Parks State
Parks

1933 70 102

1934 102 263

1935 115 475

1936 92 393

1937 83 337

1938 77 245

1939 83 227

1940 109 201

1941 91 194

1942 19 70*

Total Camp Years 841 2,507

*Fifty of these camps were operated by the National Park Service on military reservations doing defense work.

Source: Conrad L. Wirth, Parks, Politics, and the People (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980), p. 127.

Table C-4

DISTRIBUTION OF STANDARD CCC CAMPS IN CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES

CCC
Period Dates Embraced by CCC Period National
Park Service

1 June 1, 1933, to Sept. 30, 1933 172

2 Oct. 1, 1933, to Mar. 31, 1934 304

3 Apr. 1, 1934, to Sept. 30, 1934 428

4 Oct. 1, 1934, to Mar. 31, 1935 429

5 Apr. 1, 1935, to Sept. 30, 1935 561

6 Oct. 1, 1935, to Mar. 31, 1936 489

7 Apr. 1, 1936, to Sept. 30, 1936 430

8 Oct. 1, 1936, to Mar. 31, 1937 426

9 Apr. 1, 1937, to Sept. 30, 1937 379

10 Oct. 1, 1937, to Mar. 31, 1938 320

11 Apr. 1, 1938, to Sept. 30, 1938 305

12 Oct. 1, 1938, to Mar. 31, 1939 311

13 Apr. 1, 1939, to Sept. 30, 1939 311

14 Oct. 1, 1939, to Mar. 31, 1940 310

15 Apr. 1, 1940, to Sept. 30, 1940 310

16 Oct. 1, 1940, to Mar. 31, 1941 308

17 Apr. 1, 1941, to Sept. 30, 1941 223

18 Oct. 1, 1941, to Mar. 31, 1942 78

19 Apr. 1, 1942, to Sept. 30, 1942 39

Source: Conrad L. Wirth, Parks, Politics, and the People (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980), p. 149.

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