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El Campo is a city in Wharton County, Texas, United States. The population was 12,350 at the 2020 Census , making it the largest city in Wharton County. Geography
Take a tour of historic El Campo and discover some road trip worthy hidden gems in the "pearl of the prairie"
20th Century Technology Museum. The list of museums in the Texas Gulf Coast encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Wharton County, Texas – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category.
El Camino Real de los Tejas routes in Spanish Texas. Alonso de León, Spanish governor of Coahuila, established the corridor for what became El Camino Real de Tierra Afuera in multiple expeditions to East Texas between 1686 and 1690 to find and destroy a French fort near Lavaca Bay, [2] established by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle on what de León considered to be Spanish lands.
The monument of the fallen men of the Dawson Massacre and the ill-fated Mier Expedition.. On September 18, 1848, the remains of Texans killed in the Dawson Massacre and the Black Bean Episode, which had been retrieved from their original burial sites, were reinterred in a common tomb with a sandstone vault at the location now known as Monument Hill.
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Fannin County, Texas. There are one National Historic Landmark , one district, six individual properties, and one former property listed on the National Register in the county.
Several family members and employees of Rosenberg-based Hartman Newspapers, L.P. publish a group of 11 small daily and semiweekly newspapers in Texas, including Rosenberg, Rockport, Port Lavaca, Katy and Alvin. In March 2024, the Wharton Journal-Spectator and the El Campo Leader-News were merged to form the Wharton County Leader-Journal. [2]