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Bastrop (/ ˈ b æ s t r ə p,-t r ɒ p /) is a city and the county seat of Bastrop County, Texas, United States. The population was 9,688 according to the 2020 census . [ 6 ] It is located about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Austin and is part of the Greater Austin metropolitan area.
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Following the independence of Mexico, of which Texas was a part, the empresario Stephen F. Austin issued grants to settlers in what is now Bastrop and Fayette Counties. During the mid-1820s settlements were established along the Colorado River near modern La Grange. [12] The village of Mina (later renamed Bastrop) was established in 1827.
Bastrop County is located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in Central Texas and its county seat is Bastrop. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population was 97,216. [2] [3] Bastrop County is included in the Austin–Round Rock, Texas, metropolitan statistical area.
The first known pottery in Bastrop County was established by Matthew Duncan, also spelled Dunkin, in 1855 when he bought 10 acres on Alum Creek in the Bastrop Town Tract, now Bastrop State Park, to build a shop. [2] Following Duncan's death (1880), his business, Randolph Manufacturing aka Dunkin Jug Factory, was sold to Milton Stoker.
Oak Hill is a ghost town in Bastrop County, Texas, United States. It is located four miles southwest of McDade, 12 miles southeast of Elgin, 13 miles northeast of Bastrop, and 37 miles southeast of Austin on the old Bastrop-McDade Road (Farm to Market Road 2336).
The Bastrop Advertiser is a weekly newspaper covering Bastrop, Texas, and wider Bastrop County.Founded in 1853, [2] it is one of the oldest continually operating weeklies in the state of Texas; and along with papers like the Elgin Courier, is considered the newspaper of record for some of the small rural towns in the Greater Austin region.
Butler is located five miles southeast of Elgin, 20 miles north of the town of Bastrop and 31 miles east of Austin near the intersection of Farm to Market Road 696 and Farm to Market Road 106 (Old McDade Road), near Texas State Highway 290. It is also located 6 mi (9.7 km) west of McDade. [5]