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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.
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.
The three-story tan and red brick old Bastrop County Jail, opened in 1892, also stands on the courthouse square. The jail was remodeled in 1925, including improvements to the ventilating, heating, and sewage systems. In 1971, a new jail and sheriff's office were built on the courthouse square immediately to the southeast of the courthouse.
Snailbrook is a company town under construction in Bastrop County within the Greater Austin region of Texas. It is intended as a utopian company town for the employees of The Boring Company and SpaceX. It is based on the initiative of businessman Elon Musk, who has acquired large areas of land in Texas for himself and his companies.
The town was granted a post office in 1877, although it was located in Lee County. It was moved to Bastrop County in 1879, but closed and reopened again in Lee County, only to finally move back to Bastrop County in 1883. [1] By 1884, the town had a population of 75, two churches, a steam gristmill, a cotton gin, and a district school. [2]
Bastrop County: 021: Bastrop: 1836: One of the original 23 counties: Baron Felipe Enrique Neri de Bastrop, the Dutch settler who provided essential help to Stephen F. Austin in obtaining his original land grants: 110,778: 888 sq mi (2,300 km 2) Baylor County: 023: Seymour: 1858: Fannin County
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, introduced a bill to designate the post office on Bastrop's Main Street as “Sergeant Major Billy D. Waugh Post Office.”
A one-teacher school with 19 students was known to be operating in 1905. In 1907, when Bastrop County commissioners' court divided the county into school districts, a district school was located in McDuff. The school was merged with the Elgin Independent School District in 1949. [2] During the 1940s, McDuff disappeared from county highway maps. [2]