Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Camp Wood, TX

Camp Wood was founded in 1920 by workers of the Uvalde Cedar Company, who came to harvest the area's abundant cedar for fence posts and telephone poles, and it became the northern terminus of the Uvalde and Northern Railroad.

The town takes its name from Camp Wood, a United States Army outpost established in May 1857 near the site and named for Captain George W. F. Wood of the First Infantry.

The town's water is supplied by the same spring that served San Lorenzo de la Santa Cruz Mission, a Franciscan mission established for the Lipan Apache that stood nearby from 1762 to 1771.

Camp Wood was incorporated in 1936, sixteen years after the town was founded.

In March 1924 a young Charles A. Lindbergh, lost while flying to California with Leon Klink three years before his famous solo Atlantic crossing, landed on Camp Wood's main street, then clipped a telephone pole on takeoff and crashed into the paint section of a local hardware store.

In 1976 Camp Wood renamed its city park for Lindbergh and a street for Klink, and a state historical marker at Lindbergh Park on State Highway 55 commemorates the aviators' unplanned visit.

The 2020 census counted 517 residents in Camp Wood, living in 183 households.

Camp Wood sits on the Nueces River in the Nueces Canyon, at the southern edge of the Edwards Plateau on the Balcones Escarpment, at the junction of State Highway 55 and Farm Road 337 in far southwestern Real County.

Local students attend schools in the Nueces Canyon Consolidated Independent School District.

Ranching, especially sheep and Angora goats, remains central to the economy around Camp Wood, and much of the surrounding land has been bought by outsiders for hunting and vacation use.