Camden, Texas

Camden is an unincorporated community in east central Polk County, Texas, United States. It is located at the junction of Farm to Market Roads 942 and 62, eighty miles northwest of Beaumont. As of the year 2000, the community had approximately 1,200 residents.^[1]

The Corrigan-Camden Independent School District serves area students.

Camden Texas was a company town begun by the W. T. Carter & Brother lumber company in the early 1900s. Virtually all the housing was built by the company and was rented by the company to its employees. After the sale of the company to Champion Paper in the late 1960s, all the public buildings and housing except those owned by Carter Heirs were sold and moved. The Camden School District was merged into the Corrigan School District with a new name of Corrigan-Camden School District. By the early 1970s all that was left was a post office, Champion company offices and a few vacation homes owned by Carters and DeWalch's. There is a theory that some early Carters were familiar with Camden Maine and that is the origin of the name Camden Texas.

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v t e Municipalities and communities of Polk County, Texas, United States County seat: Livingston Cities Goodrich Onalaska Seven Oaks Towns Corrigan Livingston CDPs Big Thicket Lake Estates‡ Cedar Point Indian Springs Pleasant Hill West Livingston Other unincorporated communities Ace Blanchard Camden Dallardsville East Tempe Leggett Moscow Ghost town Laurelia Footnotes ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 30°55′02″N 94°44′04″W / 30.91722°N 94.73444°W / 30.91722; -94.73444