CCC Camps in 1933

Table 1. Camps Established and Companies Assembled in 1933 (1934).
All the camps were located in a national forest or on state-owed land, and the initials F for those in the forests and S for those on state land were used in camp designation numbers.
	Camp	Co.	P.O.
F-1	Mystic	760**	Mystic
F-2	Horse Creek	791	Hill City
F-3	Este	789	Nemo
F-4	Pactola	1789	Pactola
F-5	Rochford	1790	Rochford
F-6	Roubaix	792	Roubaix
F-9	Hill City	793	Hill City
F-10	Rockerville	1794	Rapid City
F-11	Haselrodt	790	Custer
F-12	Custer	1791	Custer
F-13	Mayo	1792	Custer
F-14	Lightning Creek	1783V*	Custer
F-15	Tigerville	765*	Hill City
F-16	Oreville	766*	Hill City
F-17	Calcite	1784V	Tilford
S-1	Pine Creek	1793	Keystone
S-2	Doran	1795	Custer
SE-207	Farm Island	796*	Pierre
		Hdqtrs	Ft Meade
	Lake Kampeska	1784V	Watertown
* Enrollees from North Dakota
** Enrollees from Nebraska
Derschied, Lyle A. "The Civilian Conservation Corps in South Dakota, 1933-1942." Brookings, SD, South Dakota State University Foundation Press, 1986. No longer in print. Available at some libraries but may not be checked-out.

The U.S. Post Office had transferred a number of old wire-cage, Liberty motor driven trucks to the army at Fort Snelling, MN.

Fort Meade Conditioning Camp with "Bird Cages" in foreground (Courtesy of USFS).

These were assigned to CCC duty in the Black Hills and driven to Fort Meade where they were immediately dubbed "bird cages."

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List of first the CCC Camps. Some of them received "Bird Cages" from the US Post Office.