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El CampoWharton County,TexasPearl of the PrairieThe Texas state capital is Austin. What would you like to know about El Campo
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The population of El Campo is approximately 10,511 (1990).
The amount of land area in El Campo is 14.781 sq. kilometers.
Return to Index El Campo location: about eighty miles south of Houston
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History & History Related Items El Campo history: In the late 1800s cowboys would drive cattle to the train tracks in the middle of the prairie here and would set up camp. This wasbefore El Campo was founded. A beacon that "gleamed like a pearl in the night" was located at the train tracks where the men camped and the cattle would be loaded on the train. Hence the name El Campo which is translated The Camp, and Pearl of the Prairie for the shining light.
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