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Keetley, Utah

During World War II, Keetley was home to a group of about 130 Japanese-Americans who relocated from California in an effort to avoid internment in government-run concentration camps. Oakland-based grocer and businessman Fred Isamu Wada organized the relocation, and rented land in Keetley to produce crops for the war effort. Throughout their tenure at Keetley, the Japanese-American community maintained close ties with those incarcerated at the Topaz Internment Camp a few hours south. Jordanelle Dam inundated Keetley in 1993.