Discover Camp Swift: A Growing Community in Bastrop County
Published: December 9, 2005
Updated: September 20, 2023
Camp Swift is a rural community located off State Highway 95 about five miles north of Bastrop in north central Bastrop County. Named for Camp Swift, the military training facility, this dispersed residential development began around the mid-1980s and represented the increasing construction in the area of Lake Bastrop. The 1990 census reported a population of 2,681. That number had increased to 4,731 in 2000.
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The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry.
Laurie E. Jasinski, “Camp Swift, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed March 09, 2026, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/camp-swift-tx.
Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
TID:
HGC21
- December 9, 2005
- September 20, 2023
