Fort CavazosTX
A town, settled in 1942.
Is Fort Cavazos a good place to live?
The biggest park or preserve is Walker Village Greenspace, at 114 acres. We don’t grade Fort Cavazos yet; the figures below are still real.
Moving to Fort Cavazos: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Fort Cavazos, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
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Fort Cavazos has a very low natural-hazard risk, chiefly from tornadoes
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in just over four fifths of U.S. communities. FEMA puts nearly a third of Fort Cavazos’s expected hazard losses down to tornadoes, and 31% to inland flooding. Federal disaster aid has reached households in Fort Cavazos once, in 2024.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The schools Fort Cavazos’s kids attend
Three of the 8 schools are below, and why each made the list. Public schools: Killeen ISD. The 6 public schools in Fort Cavazos teach 3,964 students between them.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meadows ElLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 912 | B− |
| Killeen Isd Early College H SLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 960 | A+ |
| Montague Village ElTop results in townGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 548 | A |
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Expect mild winters and hot summers in Fort Cavazos
July afternoons reach 96°, January nights drop to 37° and snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Open space protected for good: 0.6% of Fort Cavazos
For Fort Cavazos, the trail density is 0.8 miles per square mile. In 14 parks and preserves, walkers have 15 miles of trail.
| Fort Cavazos | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.8 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 0.6% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Eagle Nature Preserve | 0.4 mi | 27 |
| 2. Walker Village Greenspace | — | 114 |
| 3. Sadowski Field | — | 48 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Fort Cavazos
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Fort Cavazos
About Fort Cavazos
US Army post near Killeen, Texas
Fort Hood is a United States Army post located near Killeen, Texas. The post is located halfway between Austin and Waco, about 60 mi (100 km) from each, within the U.S. state of Texas. The post is the headquarters of III Armored Corps and First Army Division West and is home to the 1st Cavalry Division and 3rd Cavalry Regiment, among others. The post was originally named after Confederate General John Bell Hood, commander of the Texas Brigade during the American Civil War. In 2023 it was renamed Fort Cavazos for Gen. Richard E. Cavazos, a native Texan and the US Army's first Hispanic four-star general. In 2025, it was renamed back to Fort Hood, after Col. Robert Hood. Its origin was the nee…
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- Established
- 1942
- Area
- 16 sq mi
- Elevation
- 909 ft
- ZIP code
- 76544
Fort Cavazos’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Fort Cavazos.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Cavazos | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Killeen | #622 | D− | C− | C− | C− | C− |
| Copperas Cove | #403 | C− | C+ | C | C+ | B− |
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Is Fort Cavazos, TX a good place to live?
We don’t grade Fort Cavazos yet; the figures below are still real.