El Campo, TX Townhome for Sale

With roughly 12,000 residents, El Campo is the largest city in quiet, rural Wharton County. Spanish for "the camp," the city began as a railroad shipping camp for prairie grass, cattle and grain. An agricultural heritage has stuck around for generations, even following El Campo's 1930s oil boom. Today, relatively newer industries are opening doors to economic development, prompting leaders to work toward growing the city's current housing market, schools and businesses. "It's not like Sugarland or Houston, where you have everything to do five m ...