Forestry and Agriculture Sites

The Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.)'s Camp Cross housed Co. 182, S-51, and operated from June 20, 1933 to Apr. 1, 1941. It was based "in the rock-strewn valley of the Housatonic River." According to the CCC Museum, work included the "creation of 12 miles of truck trails, including Gold Road and Titus Road," and "clean-up work after the 1936 flood of the Housatonic River." CCCLegacy.org: "For eight years Camp Cross was set up in the Housatonic Meadows State Park in Sharon. The enrollees were World Was I veterans who pitched their tents across the road from the Housatonic River. They built 12...

In October 1933, a company of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees arrived at the recently completed CCC Camp Devil's Flat in Azalea OR. From that date to April 1935, enrollees of Company #1305 built roads and fought fires in the Umpqua National Forest. The young men, primarily from Oregon, excelled in their work as "fire eaters" and gained recognition by earning the District Flag. The company of approximately 200 moved on in the spring of 1935, relocating to CCC Camp South Umpqua Falls. Today the remains of the CCC camp is limited to a couple of fire hydrants that had been...

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Elgin occupied an eight-acre site on the Weston-Elgin Highway just outside of Elgin from October 1939 to August 1941. During the majority of that time, the Elgin enrollees worked on forest management projects on private land. Elgin historian Bernal D. Hug, Sr. attributes a long list of accomplishments to these young “tree troopers,” recording the construction of a bridge at Minam, a guard station, and a number of roads and truck trails as well as stringing telephone line for forest management purposes. Because enrollees from other CCC camps near Elgin had worked on Union County projects...

The Civilian Conservation Corps built CCC Camp F-3-W in the Bighorn National Forest, in 1939.  

In 1934, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) set up Camp F-30 in Hobble Creek Canyon, about six miles east of Springville.  It was a summer season camp, consisting only of tents on wooden platforms.  Hobble Creek Camp (F-30) was located in what is now Cherry Campground (moving there from another nearby location in 1934). The US Forest Service website says that F-30 only operated in 1934-36, with operations shifted to Camp F-40 in Provo, a few miles north of Springville, up to 1941. Baldridge (p 122) contradicts this, saying that F-30 continued to be used as a summer spike camp until...

The Civilian Conservation Corps built Camp F-37-W, Company 4803, in Douglas, Wyoming in 1936.

Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) worked in Big Cottonwood and Little Cottonwood Canyon in Salt Lake County, Utah from 1935 to 1942.  The corps established a camp, F-38, at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon, which  housed Company 3340 throughout that period.   Company 3340 worked under the direction of the US Forest Service. The hundreds of CCC enrollees assigned to camp F-38 made many improvements to recreational facilities along the Wasatch Front east of Salt Lake City, including work in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Little Cottonwood Canyon and Mill Creek Canyon. They built trails, roads, bridges, campgrounds, shelters, ski facilities, amphitheaters and more,...

In 1935, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) set up Camp F-40 at the Provo Fairgrounds (now the Provo Airport).  It was a permanent camp with wooden buildings that operated until 1941.  It housed CCC Company 958, which moved there from Camp F-30 in Hobble Creek Canyon -- first in the winters of 1934 and 1935, then full time from 1936 on. The letter F meant that CCC projects at this camp were carried out under the direction of the US Forest Service, in what was then the Wasatch National Forest (now Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest). The name "Rock Canyon" may be a...

The Civilian Conservation Corps built camp F-42 at the Saint Joe National Forest, Idaho.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established Camp F-5 in Timpanogos Cave National Monument in the summer of 1933. Company 940 was sent there from training at Fort Douglas, with its 200-man contingent including both young enrollees and a large complement of "experienced men" from Salt Lake City. During summer 1933 and through the winter of 1933-34 (Baldridge, p. 164), the CCC made many improvements to the national monument. Baldridge (p. 33) states that:  "..much was accomplished, as the men built roads, bridge, and trails; poisoned rodents; construct picnic tables for many campsites; and constructed Forest Service facilities, including the South Fork Ranger...

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established camp F-6 on Soapstone Creek, about 20 miles up highway 150 from Kamas, in 1933 and it operated in the summers through 1937. Camp F-6 worked under the U.S. Forest Service and the enrollees did a variety of jobs in the area, such as working on the Mirror Lake highway, developing Mirror Lake and Scout Lake (Steiner Camp) for recreation, and creating fire breaks and fighting fires.   The Park (City) Record reported on the CCC's activities in the 1930s; an article on a 2008 reunion of CCC "boys" (men), reported that,  "The legacy of the Soapstone...

In 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) set up one of the first camps in Utah in Salt Creek Canyon a few miles east of Nephi, near what is now the intersection of highway 132  and FR015 (the Mount Nebo Scenic Byway).  The camp number was F-9, meaning it worked under the US Forest Service. Working out of Camp F-9, various CCC companies carried out extensive improvements around the southern flank of Mt. Nebo.. The first, in 1933, was building the central section of Mt. Nebo Loop Road (that was company 958, which subsequently operated out of Camps F-30 and F-40...

Organized in 1933 and operating through at least 1937, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Fall Creek Camp was the home to Company #965, accommodating approximately 200 enrollees. The site of the camp was covered by a reservoir in 1964-1966. The nearby Clark Creek Organization Camp, ten miles to the east on Fall Creek, is one of the largest projects completed by workers from Fall Creek Camp. A plaque at Clark Creek Organization Camp honors the work of the Fall Creek Camp CCC enrollees, saying: "While on the Willamette National Forest, (they) built the Fall Creek Road and bridges, the Fall Creek trail,...

The Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.)'s Camp Fechner, which housed Company #2102 at Wooster Mountain State Park in Danbury, Connecticut, conducted the following improvement and development work: "removal and burning of over 80,000 elm trees to control Dutch Elm Disease; construction of roads; forest fire suppression and prevention; forestry work; control the Pine Shoot Moth; assistance in the lower Connecticut River Valley after the Flood of 1936." The camp operated from Sept. 12, 1935 to May 24, 1937.

CCC Camp Four Mile, also known as the CCC Bandon Side Camp, served as a base for Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers from its founding in spring 1937 through 1941. Today the site is occupied by a Coos Forest Protective Association (CFPA) patrol district, and a CCC building houses the administration office for the CFPA's Four Mile Guard Station. Thus, it continues its association with firefighting and fire prevention services for the area south of Bandon, Oregon. CCC Camp Four Mile offers one example of many "side camps" that provided firefighting services in the Coos Forest Protection Association District. During the...

CCC Camp Frederick Butte (DG 68) was one of seven Civilian Conservation Corps camps established in Oregon to work with the US Grazing Service in the implementation of the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934. The Taylor Act created grazing districts as a means to regulate use of public lands by Western ranchers with the goal of improving livestock management and the management of watersheds. CCC enrollees arrived at Frederick Butte in Deschutes County in 1937. As with other DG - or Public Domain Grazing - designated camps, the CCC men planted grasses, eliminated pests believed detrimental to the rangeland, managed the...

From 1934 to 1942, CCC Camp Gap Ranch operated in Harney County under the direction of the US Grazing Service, the precursor to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Enrollees at this 200-person Civilian Conservation Corps provided labor on projects designed to manage range land. As noted in a BLM brochure, this included building range improvements such as fences and reservoirs, drilling wells, building roads, and cutting large quantities of juniper posts for fencing projects. CCC Camp Gap Ranch (DG-5) was one of seven Civilian Conservation Corps camps established in Oregon to work with the US Grazing Service in the implementation...

Among the earliest of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camps in Oregon, Camp Hebo (occasionally referred to as Camp Mt Hebo) was established in the spring of 1933 and remained active until 1936. Without the benefit of a permanent campground, the earliest enrollees arrived from Chicago to tent living and quickly learned about the rain and mud of the Oregon Coast Range's western slope. Despite difficult living conditions, the 220 young men of Company 622 went to work under the management of rangers from the Siuslaw National Forest on a variety of tasks required for the forest's management, including building...

In 1935, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers completed Camp Heppner on a site just east of the Morrow County Fairgrounds’ race course and north of the Heppner Highway. From its founding to closure in November 1941, several CCC companies resided there while assisting local ranchers by implementing soil conservation demonstration projects.  No evidence of the camp remains. The Heppner Gazette-Times, the town’s weekly newspaper, reported in early July 1935 that local carpenters and “28 CCC helpers” were running ahead of schedule in completion of the camp. The report also stated that the work had entirely eliminated unemployment in the town given the...

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Hilgard was built during the summer of 1935 to serve as a winter camp for CCC enrollees that had worked on projects in the higher elevations of the Wallowa National Forest. From that time through 1941, Camp Hilgard (P-215) served as one of the largest and most significant of the CCC camps in northeastern Oregon. For the majority of that time, however, Camp Hilgard enrollees worked on forest management projects supervised by the Oregon State Forester designed to benefit private forest land. The local newspaper, The Observer, provided a summary of the enrollees' activities in 1938, noting:...

From May to October 1933, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Imnaha operated just outside the community of Imnaha in the Wallowa National Forest (WNF). Given the elevation of Imnaha (1978 ft), originally CCC administration anticipated keeping a year-around camp at this location. That was re-evaluated, however, based on winter conditions, its remote location. and the nature of their work. Early in the history of the CCC in Oregon, the enrollees of CCC Camp Imnaha (F-1) were put to work building a single-track road from Imnaha to the lookout at Hat Point, approximately twenty-four miles distance and a nearly 5000 foot rise...

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established a camp near Lovelock NV during the 1930s, officially BR-36, popularly called Camp Lovelock or sometimes Camp Pershing. It was located near the main road north of town (along what is now Interstate 80). No trace of it remains today. CCC enrollees helped with improvements to the Humboldt River Project of the Bureau of Reclamation and the irrigation system of the Lovelock Valley (then private, but today part of the Pershing County Water Conservation District). They worked on ancillary construction jobs during the final stage of construction of the Rye Patch Dam and Reservoir and...

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees arrived in the Siuslaw National Forest (SNF) in 1933. Camp Mapleton, one of the early camps located there, was established in late June 1933 on the Smith River before being moved three months later to its site one mile south of the town of Mapleton. The enrollees went to work building roads and truck trails. The Burton report on Eugene District camps listed Mapleton enrollees' projects, including: "a road to be built toward Roman Nose; a road to be built up Vincent Creek toward Scottsburg; and a continuation of the Smith River road." They also...

In 1935, Benton County authorities submitted a proposal for siting a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp on Mary's Peak, the highest peak in the Coast range. They received approval that year to develop CCC Camp Mary's Peak with the goal of constructing a road to its summit for summer and winter recreational purposes. Because of its altitude (4100 ft), the camp would not operate year around and, consequently, was a spur camp of CCC Camp Nestucca. Despite its approval in 1935, it appears that road construction did not begin until 1938. The road construction project included four miles of entirely new...

In 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established Camp McKinley as a summer and winter camp in the Oregon & California Land Grant areas of Coos County, Oregon. Working in an area described at the time as "an unbroken stretch of timber land . . . (containing) the largest block of virgin timber in the United States," the CCC enrollees constructed miles of truck trail to provide access for forest management purposes. The camp operated for the majority of the CCC's existence, closing in late August 1941. Companies assigned to the land trust forest included: #1649, #3873, #3881, #3558. The first...

Located on the western edge of the Ochocho National Forest, approximately twenty miles from Prineville, Oregon, Camp Mill Creek served as a major Civilian Conservation Corps worksite from 1933 to 1942. The entrance to the camp's location is marked in honor of the hundreds of young men who worked on projects in this national forest. As described on the roadside plaque: "The young men of Camp Mill Creek did reforestation work, fought forest fires and constructed and maintained roads, trails, telephone lines and campgrounds." CCC workers, under the supervision of the US Forest Service, are credited with constructing several buildings located...

Camp NA-1 was located in the National Arboretum, Washington, DC, and was home to Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Company 1360, an all African-American unit. Many of the enrollees in Company 1360 were young men from the city itself. Company 1360 formed on June 7, 1933 at Fort George Meade, Maryland and, after initial work assignments in Chester, Virginia (Camp P-61) and Williamsburg, Virginia (Camp SP-9), the men settled into Camp NA-1 in November 1934. From then until 1941 these young African American men made the earliest significant developments to the National Arboretum – a project of the Bureau of Plant Industry...

Located nine miles northeast of Wheeler in Tillamook County, Camp Nehalem was the home to Company #2908 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees from 1935 to approximately 1941. Company #2908 was known as the "Oregon Company," being made up entirely of Oregon enrollees. Its project designation, P-221, indicates that the company worked primarily on private forest land. When the company was formed in 1933, CCC Camp Boyington near Astoria housed the 200 enrollees of Company #2908. From 1933 - 1936, severe forest fires plagued the area and many of the CCC companies provided forest fighting services. The company was moved from its...

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Nestucca is recognized as one of five permanent CCC camps located in the Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon during the Depression. CCC Camp Nestucca's enrollees participated in many forestry projects during a period known for frequent and extensive forest fires in the region. Records mention both 1934 and 1935 as the camp's date of establishment. The other permanent camps in the Siuslaw National Forest included CCC Camps Cape Creek, Hebo, Mapleton and Angell. In addition to fire fighting, CCC enrollees from Camp Nestucca built roads and trails for forest management, strung telephone lines to improve communication,...

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established a camp on Mount Tamalpais in October 1933 and CCC enrollees did extensive work around Mount Tamalpais in Marin County CA, north of the Golden Gate.  They carried out improvements in Muir Woods National Monument on the south flank of the mountain, Mt. Tamalpais State Park which encircles the summit and Marin Water District on the north side of the mountain.  The National Park Service says this about the camp: "October 1933: Often called the "busiest month" in the history of Muir Woods, this month saw the arrival of the Civilian Conservation Corps, or the CCC,...

The Rand National Historic Site is located on the west side of the Rogue River in southwestern Oregon, 25 miles northwest of Grants Pass and 3 miles downstream from Galice. Rand's history covers the Gold Rush, establishment of the Siskiyou National Forest and the 20th century logging era, plus the postwar recreation era that followed designation of the Rogue as a National Wild and Scenic River. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) played a central role in that history, with some of the CCC's work still very much visible.  CCC Company #1650 built and occupied Camp Rand (F-75) starting in late 1933. The...

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built CCC Camp Rangeley Lake Co. 144 P-55 in Sandy River, Maine. Excerpt  from Official annual, 1937, Civilian Conservation Corps: "The 144th Company, CCC, is located about three miles south of Rangeley, Maine on Route No. 4. This camp was established on June 5th, 1933. The location of this camp is but a few rods from the edge of the famous Rangleley Lake. The elevation at the camp site is 1650 feet above sea level. The camp is located in a small open valley nestling at the foot of the foothills of the Blue Mountain range. The majority of...

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)’s Camp Roberts, which housed Company #175, was stationed at Black Rock State Park in Thomaston, Connecticut. The camp was established May 30, 1933 and was discontinued Sept. 28, 1937. The camp's "main projects were: building miles of truck trails, survey and boundary work, gypsy moth removal, tree planting."

Members of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) #1258 arrived at CCC Camp Saddle Mountain near Seaside and Cannon Beach OR in the summer of 1935. The majority of the Company's enrollees were from New York. Although the CCC workers occupied tents upon their arrival, they began construction of bunkhouses, recreational halls, officers' quarters and other camp buildings. With the camp's completion, the encampment grew to its full strength of 200 men. Located near what was then the Nehalem Highway (now US Hwy 26), the camp's site was rented by the state to the federal government. Improvement of that land for Oregon State Park...

The Civilian Conservation Corps builtCamp Cabell in the vicinity of Culloden between 1939 and 1941. The 1940 Enumeration District Map shows the camp location.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Sisters (F-110, Company #1454) at Camp Sherman, Oregon operated near the headwaters of the Metolius River in Jefferson County from 1933 to 1942. It was just one of the average 60 CCC camps that worked each year in the state during that period. Originally planned to be near Sisters, Oregon rather than at the unincorporated Camp Sherman site, its name tends to confuse Oregonians. The CCC, however, found this position on the Metolius more in keeping with project needs so located it where the (Camp Sherman) Riverside Campground is found today. The CCC men constructed...

Soon after the establishment of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in March 1933, CCC Camp Skinner Butte was established in Eugene, Oregon to serve as the headquarters of CCC camps in what was then the Eugene District. Within a year, regional administrators reconfigured the districts and closed Camp Skinner Butte. During its year of operation, Camp Skinner (as it was dubbed) served as the headquarters for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the National Youth Administration (NYA) as well. The Camp occupied the former car camping and picnic area in Eugene's Skinner Butte Park. Although the City of Eugene established a...

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) maintained a camp on French Creek east of Custer State Park in South Dakota from 1934 to 1941.  It was officially camp SP-3 (meaning State Park #3).  The recruits worked on projects in region under the supervision of Custer State Park rangers and the National Park Service (NPS). The CCC enrollees built many miles of road, telephone lines and boundary fences. To this they added 20 bridges.  They constructed a fire lookout on Mt. Coolidge, along with a ranger's residence there, and fought fires and bark beetle infestations. They developed the Blue Bell Lodge and cabins...

In the  winter of 1935, members of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) #1629 began construction of camp administrative and barracks buildings near Squaw Butte to facilitate CCC work related to the 16,000 acre Squaw Butte Federal Experimental Range Station. Today some of those building survive to support work at the North Great Basin Experimental Range Station and continued research on the ecology and  management of rangelands. CCC Company #2504 arrived in October 1936 to further the work associated with the Squaw Butte Experiment Station and its efforts to improve grazing conditions in this very dry, sagebrush area of Harney County, Oregon. The...

Beginning in October 1935, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) located a camp near the unincorporated town of Gibbon at Squaw Creek (Iskuulpa Creek), twenty miles east of Pendleton. As a Soil Conservation Service (SCS) camp between 1935 and 1937, Camp Squaw Creek enrollees engaged primarily in project work to stabilize the soil. Local historian Dorys Crow Grover reports that the enrollees were required to take a three-month course in soil conservation to support their work. In 1937, however, the US Forest Service took control of the CCC Camp Squaw Creek and project work changed accordingly. Under the SCS, project work included...