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About Fort Hood Neighborhoods
Weaver Texas publishes Fort Hood Neighborhoods as an independent information resource for military moves to Fort Hood and the Killeen area. The pages are an information resource. They are not a real estate service, a lending service, or a legal service.
The name on the installation
The post in these pages is Fort Hood, Texas. From 2023 through 2025 it was Fort Cavazos. It was renamed Fort Hood on June 11, 2025. The redesignation ceremony was July 28, 2025. The namesake is Col. Robert B. Hood. A housing listing, a school portal, or a GPS label saved in those Cavazos years can still carry the old name. The gate hours and the town drives use Fort Hood.
Sources: garrison home; June 11, 2025 announcement; July 28, 2025 ceremony.
Four towns, one gate
Killeen, Harker Heights, Belton, and Temple are in Bell County. Their mornings are measured to Bernie Beck Main Gate, which is open 24/7, beside the Marvin Leath Visitors Welcome Center. Killeen is the short drive and the lowest appraisal mean. Harker Heights is the short I-14 drive and the highest mean. Belton brings its own school district. Temple brings four. A map pin that says Clear Creek is a different gate from Bernie Beck.
Layout and hours: base guide. Towns: comparison.
How to read a figure
The methodology page records the source and the check date. Read the printed figures this way:
- A price figure is a mean market value from the Bell Central Appraisal District 2025 certified ARB totals for Category A single-family accounts, dated 8/4/2025. It is not a median and not a sale price. Harker Heights and Temple also show a homestead average from that same report. The average is a separate line from the Category A mean.
- A drive time is Google's typical range, typical to worst, for a Monday, October 5, 2026, 7:00 a.m. Central departure from one named public address to the Bernie Beck / Marvin Leath area. The range was corroborated to the OpenStreetMap Bernie Beck pin. The wait at the gate is outside it.
- A school line names a district, and it still asks for an address check. Killeen and Harker Heights are Killeen ISD by address. Belton is Belton ISD. Temple is four districts.
- A BAH rate is the 2026 Department of Defense figure for one pay grade in TX286, Fort Hood / Killeen, tied to duty ZIP 76544. Town pages repeat three with-dependents grades. They stop there.