Is that a FEMA Camp? is a blog dedicated to investigating claims of FEMA camp locations.
Below is some of their findings. Enjoy ![]()

The claim: Newly built detention camp at Camp Dawson Army Reservation. More data needed on Camp Dawson.
What it really is: Camp Dawson is a West Virginia Army National Guard training camp that opened in 1909.
There are a few large and newer buildings there, but none of them look like something you would find at a prison camp.
The claim: FEMA detention facility.
What it really is: A bogus claim.
Looking at the area via Google maps, other then the local elementary school and a couple of industrial buildings, I can’t find anything that would even come close to looking like a prison camp, and even these places would be hard to mistake…
The claim: Federal prison camp located in northern WV; just north of Kingwood.
What it really is: it’s a minimum security Federal prison that holds 1,140 inmates.
• Beckley – Alderson – Lewisburg, West Virginia
The claim: Former WWII detention camps that are now converted into active federal prison complexes capable of holding several times their current populations. Alderson is presently a women’s federal reformatory.
What it really is: Alderson was opened in 1928. It is minimum security, it has always been a Federal prison for women.
The Federal prison in Beckley is medium security with a minimum security prison camp.
There are no prisons in Lewisburg at all.
Also, none of these places were the sites of World War Two POW camps.
• South Central part of state, Nebraska
The claim: Many old WWII sites – some may be renovated.
What it really is: It is a very vague claim that actually doesn’t really tell anything, nor give an exact location.
• Northwest, Northeast corners of state, Nebraska
The claim: FEMA detention facilities – more data needed.
What it really is: Most likely bogus.
The lack of information, plus actual locations, indicates that this was just made up.
The claim: WWII German POW camp (renovated?).
What it really is: There was a POW camp there that closed in 1946. There isn’t much information about the camp, but from what I have found, there is probably nothing left of it anymore.
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