Fort Crowder (2)

Fort Crowder (2) (1941-1946, 1953-1958) - A World War II U.S. Army Fort first established as Camp Crowder in 1941 near Neosho, Newton County, Missouri. Named after Major General Enoch H. Crowder, (Cullum 2909), provost marshal of the United States during World War I. Abandoned in 1946, reactivated in 1953 for the Korean War and finally deactivated in 1958. Camp Crowder Aerial Photo. World War II Established in 1941 as an armor training center and repurposed as a U.S. Army Signal Corps replacement training center, an Army Service Forces training center and an officer candidate prep school. The post also found use as an infantry replacement center and later a German prisoner of war camp. The fort came to occupy 43,000 acres. Cold War The post was deactivated in 1946 and placed in caretaker status. Many of the temporary WWII barracks were declared surplus and sold. In 1953 two permanent barracks and a disciplinary barracks were built. The post was reactivated as a permanent installation and used as a reception center for newly inducted draftees. The fort was deactivated again in January 1958 and portions were transferred to the U.S. Air Force for use as a buffer zone for a liquid fueled rocket manufacturing plant. Fort Crowder Partial Commanders List (edit list) Assumed Relieved Rank Name Cullum Notes 1941-10 1942-05 Brigadier General Rumbough, William S. N/A 1942-05 1945-06 Major General Prosser, Walter E. 4402 1945-06 1946-03 Brigadier General Milliken, Charles M. N/A 1946-05 1948-03 Colonel Murphy, John B. N/A Dates are formatted in yyyy-mm-dd to sort correctly. The Cullum Number is the graduation order from the United States Military Academy by year and class rank and links to a page for the officer on the website version of the Cullum Register. Listings without a Cullum Number indicate that the person was not a graduate of the United States Military Academy. Current Status The permanent barracks, were obtained as surplus and formed the core of the community college campus for Crowder College in 1962. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers manages some 4,358 acres used by the National Guard and in the mid-1980s, the remaining parcels were transferred to various public and private entities. {"selectable":false,"width":"500"} Location: Neosho, Newton County, Missouri. Maps & Images Lat: 36.81821 Long: -94.3695 Multi Maps from ACME Maps from Bing Maps from Google Elevation: 1,260' See Also: Sources: Roberts, Robert B., Encyclopedia of Historic Forts: The Military, Pioneer, and Trading Posts of the United States, Macmillan, New York, 1988, 10th printing, ISBN 0-02-926880-X, page 456. USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) Database Entry: 2512055 Links: North American Forts - Fort Crowder Wikipedia - Fort Crowder Missouri State Archives - Camp Crowder Photograph Collection Visited: No