Camp Swift is a census-designated place (CDP) in Bastrop County, Texas, United States.

[3] Camp Swift began as a United States Army training base built in 1942.

The Army signed a $25 million contract in January 1942 to build a training camp on 56,000 acres north of Bastrop, Texas.

Twenty-seven hundred buildings were built during World War II, but none of those remain on the site today.

A memorial scholarship in his honor has been active at his alma mater, Regis University, for most of the period since 1952 and has the backing of former NBA All Star Chauncey Billups.

The U.S. government retained 11,700 acres as a military reservation as well as a smaller parcel for FCI Bastrop.

[6] The Texas Wing of the Civil Air Patrol, the Auxiliary of the Air Force has held its encampment, a one-week high intensity simulated military training program for Cadet (leaders in training) members in Camp Swift since 2011.

[7] Camp Swift is currently owned by the United States Army Corps of Engineers,[8] but is managed by the Texas Military Forces headquartered on Camp Mabry in Austin and acts as a training center for the National and State Guard, active armed forces, law enforcement, JROTC and the Civil Air Patrol.

[9] Camp Swift is also the primary site for pre-mobilization training for the Texas Army National Guard.

Texas State Highway 95 forms the western edge of the community, connecting Bastrop to the south with Elgin to the north.