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Camp Fire Girls was established by Luther Halsey Gulick, M.D. and his wife, Charlotte
Vetter-Guilick in the summer of 1910. The Port Arthur council became incorporated in
1927 and the Beaumont council became incorporated in 1938. In 1995, the two
councils combined to become the Southeast Texas Council.
Until 2003, the Southeast Texas Council operated and owned 2 Camp Fire camps
(Camp Waluta and Camp Niwana). The council still continues the outdoor experience at
Camp Niwana in Woodville, TX.
In 1974 the National Camp Fire Board of Directors took a historic step and added boys
to the Camp Fire family, changing the name to Camp Fire Boys and Girls.
On September 1, 2001 National Camp Fire Board took another monumental step and
adopted the name Camp Fire USA.
Today, Camp Fire USA Southeast Texas Council programs reflect the best of our
past, the imperative of the present and our hopes for the future.
Camp Fire USA Southeast Texas Council is a leading youth development organization
celebrating over 75 years of building caring confident youth and future leaders in the 9
counties we serve. It is our belief that it is more effective and less expensive to build a
child than it is to repair one.
Camp Fire USA is a family organization. Programming is directed towards boys and girls.
Our goal is to provide, through a program of informal education, opportunities for youth
to realize their potential to function effectively as caring, self-directed individuals,
responsible to themselves and others; and, as an organization, to seek to improve
those conditions in society which affect youth.
caring confident youth
and future leaders.