Camp Verde, Texas

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Camp Verde, Texas
Unincorporated community
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Camp Verde
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Camp Verde
Coordinates: 29°53′37″N99°6′17″W / 29.89361°N 99.10472°W / 29.89361; -99.10472 Coordinates: 29°53′37″N99°6′17″W / 29.89361°N 99.10472°W / 29.89361; -99.10472
Country United States
State Texas
County Kerr
Elevation
491 ft (150 m)
Population
 (2000)
 • Total41
Time zone Central (CST)
ZIP
78010
Area code(s) 830
GNIS feature ID1332015 [1]

Camp Verde is an unincorporated community in Kerr County. The town is approximately the halfway point between Bandera and Kerrville along SH 173 in the Texas Hill Country.

Kerr County, Texas County in the United States

Kerr County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 49,625. Its county seat is Kerrville. The county was named by Joshua D. Brown for his fellow Kentucky native, James Kerr, a congressman of the Republic of Texas.

Bandera, Texas City in Texas, United States

Bandera is the county seat of Bandera County, Texas, United States, in the Texas Hill Country, which is part of the Edwards Plateau. The population was 857 at the 2010 census. It is part of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Kerrville, Texas City in Texas, United States

Kerrville is a city in Kerr County, Texas, United States. It is the county seat of Kerr County. The population of Kerrville was 22,347 at the 2010 census and an estimated 23,386 in 2017.

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History

The town of Camp Verde came about from the Old Camp Verde military camp. The town grew around the old Williams community store (opened in 1857), which was built to serve the soldiers stationed at the base. After Williams died in 1858, German immigrant Charles Schreiner acquired the store. After the camp was abandoned, the store continued to operate as a post office to area residents.

Old Camp Verde United States historic place

Camp Verde was a United States Army facility established on July 8, 1856 in Kerr County, Texas along the road from San Antonio to El Paso.

The first post office opened in 1858, running out of Screiner's store. This post office closed 1866. When the post office reopened in 1887, Charles C. Kelly served as post master. However, this post office was also closed in 1892. Walter S. Nowlin re-established the post office and store in 1899. [2]

The Camel Experiment

In 1854, Secretary of War Jefferson Davis (who later became the president of the Confederacy), pushed for the use of camels by the American Army. The initiative was passed by Congress on March 3, 1855 and the first camels arrived in the area in April 1856. After the fort was deactivated in 1869, the experiment died with it. [3]

Jefferson Davis President of the Confederate States

Jefferson Finis Davis was an American politician who served as the only President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865. As a member of the Democratic Party, he represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives prior to switching allegiance to the Confederacy. He was appointed as the United States Secretary of War, serving from 1853 to 1857, under President Franklin Pierce.

Confederate States of America (de facto) federal republic in North America from 1861 to 1865

The Confederate States of America — commonly referred to as the Confederacy — was a white supremacist unrecognized republic in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865. The Confederacy was originally formed by seven secessionist slave-holding states—South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas—in the Lower South region of the United States, whose economy was heavily dependent upon agriculture, particularly cotton, and a plantation system that relied upon the labor of African-American slaves. Convinced that white supremacy and the institution of slavery were threatened by the November 1860 election of Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. presidency on a platform which opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories, the Confederacy declared its secession in rebellion to the United States, with the loyal states becoming known as the Union during the ensuing American Civil War. Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens described its ideology as being centrally based "upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition".

Camp Verde General Store

The Camp Verde General Store is still in operation to this day, having been in operation for over 150 years. [4] The store has become somewhat of a tourist attraction in the area. The store also runs the post office and operates a restaurant.

Climate

The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Camp Verde has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. [5]

Humid subtropical climate category in the Köppen climate classification system

A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters. These climates normally lie on the southeast side of all continents, generally between latitudes 25° and 35° and are located poleward from adjacent tropical climates. While many subtropical climates tend to be located at or near coastal locations, in some cases they extend inland, most notably in China and the United States, where they exhibit more pronounced seasonal variations and sharper contrasts between summer and winter, as part of a gradient between the more tropical climates of the southern coasts of these countries and the more continental climates of China and the United States’ northern and central regions.

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References

  1. ↑ "Camp Verde (Kerr County, Texas): Miscellaneous Information". Roadside Thoughts. Retrieved December 4, 2013.Cite web requires |website= (help)
  2. ↑ "CAMP VERDE, TX-The Handbook of Texas Online-Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)". Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved December 4, 2013.Cite web requires |website= (help)
  3. ↑ "History-Camp Verde General Store-Camp Verde, Texas". Camp Verde General Store. Retrieved December 4, 2013.Cite web requires |website= (help)
  4. ↑ "Camp Verde General Store-Camp Verde, Texas". Camp Verde General Store. Retrieved December 4, 2013.Cite web requires |website= (help)
  5. ↑ Climate Summary for Camp Verde, Texas
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