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Jerome Relocation Center was the last center to open and the first to close. The early closure of Jerome was cited by the War Relocation Authority as a sign of success in placing Japanese Americans in jobs and homes outside of the West Coast Restricted Zone.
Jerome Relocation Center was the site of the only known shooting of evacuees by local civilians. A tenant farmer on horseback on his way home from deer hunting came across three Japanese Americans on a work detail in the woods. He fired one round of buckshot, wounding two internees. The farmer claimed that he thought the Japanese Americans were trying to escape and that the Caucasian engineer supervisor that was present was trying to aid the escape.

Jerome had a sawmill that produced goods for internal consumption. The sawmill produced more than 280,000 board feet of lumber and over 6,000 cords of firewood.

Jerome had the second highest percentage of person answering the loyalty questionnaire negatively, giving qualified answers to refusing to answer.

Jerome Relocation Center had the second lowest percentage of eligible male citizens inducted into the armed forces (0.9%). Tule Lake had the lowest.

After the relocation center was closed, it was converted into a prisoner of war camp for German soldiers.