Camp Wood, Texas
Camp Wood is a small town on the Nueces River in the Nueces Canyon of Real County, tucked into the western edge of the Hill Country about 91 miles northwest of San Antonio. The site traces its roots to an 18th-century Spanish mission and later to a cedar-cutting company that laid out the modern town. Camp Wood is also remembered as the place where a young Charles Lindbergh, years before his transatlantic flight, made a forced landing on the main street and crashed while attempting to take off again.
Place essentials
Official Census snapshot- Census place type
- City
- July 2025 population
- 509
- Change from 2020 base
- -3%
- Land area
- 0.5 sq. mi.
- County footprint
- Real County
Place type, county footprint, and land area use the Census Bureau's January 1, 2025 geography. Population uses Vintage 2025 estimates through July 1, 2025; change compares that estimate with the April 1, 2020 estimates base. Geography file | Population file
Property here runs through the appraisal district and tax office for Real County. The homestead exemption, appraisal cap, protests, and any MUD, PID, or special districts all sit at the parcel level.
Official routes
Use the office for the parcel address; a mailing city is not always the governing city.
County context
What to know around Camp Wood
County lines carry much of the property, land, water, and outdoors context around Camp Wood.
Park History
The CCC Built Garner State Park in the 1930s
Depression-era workers from the Civilian Conservation Corps built most of what you see at Garner State Park between 1935 and 1941.
Property Tax
Who Handles Property Tax in Real County
The Real County Appraisal District in Leakey values all property and handles exemption applications, while separate taxing units set their own rates.
County History
How Real County Came to Be — and Why Goats Were Central
Real County was carved out of three counties in 1913, largely because residents were too isolated from the nearest courthouses, and its early economy ran on angora goats.
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