Bastrop, Texas Bastrop, Texas Bastrop City Hall Bastrop City Hall Location of Bastrop, Texas Location of Bastrop, Texas County Bastrop Bastrop (/ b str p/ bass-tr p, /-tr p/ -trop) is a town/city and the governmental center of county of Bastrop County, Texas, United States.
The Colorado River through Bastrop.
Bastrop is positioned near the center of Bastrop County along the Colorado River.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 9.1 square miles (23.6 km2), of which 9.0 square miles (23.3 km2) is territory and 0.12 square miles (0.3 km2), or 1.23%, is water. Three miles (5 km) northeast of the town, Lake Bastrop is a 906-acre (3.67 km2) reservoir on Spicer Creek directed by the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) since its impounding in 1964.
Bastrop ISD command posts The Bastrop Independent School District serves Bastrop. Some inhabitants are zoned to Mina Elementary School, while the rest are zoned to Emile Elementary School. All inhabitants are zoned to Bastrop Intermediate School, Bastrop Middle School, and Bastrop High School. Austin Community College conducts evening and closing education classes at the Bastrop High School.
According to the Bastrop Economic Development Corporation as of 2004, the area's four biggest employers are the Bastrop Independent school district, Wal-Mart, H-E-B Grocery Store and the Bastrop County government.
The Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and Spa (situated approximately 15 miles west of the City of Bastrop on 405 acres), opened on June 2, 2006, with 491 rooms and gave a boost to employment and revenue tax in the area.
The first version of The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (now The Bastrop Advertiser) was presented on March 1, 1853, giving it claim to be the earliest continuously presented weekly (semi-weekly since September 5, 1977) in the state of Texas.
The wider Bastrop County is also veiled by papers such as the Elgin Courier.
Several movies were at least partially filmed in Bastrop, including Lovin' Molly (1974), the initial The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Home Fries (1998), Courage Under Fire (1996), and the 2004 remake of The Alamo.
Recently, the remake of Friday the 13th was also partially filmed in Bastrop.
Filmed in and near Bastrop: The Life of David Gale with Kevin Spacey and Kate Winslet; Michael 1996 With John Travolta, Andie Mac - Dowell and William Hurt; Hope Floats 1998 With Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr.; True Women 1998 (TV movie) with Angelina Jolie, Dana Delany, and Michael York; The Tree of Life 2010 with Brad Pitt and Sean Penn.
Also partially filmed near Bastrop on the Buck Steiner Ranch was A Perfect World with Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood and Laura Dern.
In late 2012 and early 2013, the film Joe Ransom starring Nicolas Cage was partially filmed in Bastrop at the Lost Pines Boy Scout Park.
Prince Avalanche (2013) starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch was shot in Bastrop, Texas, after the Bastrop County Complex fire.
Boyhood (2014) starring Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke was shot in the Lost Pines of Bastrop.
Bastrop tends to be cooler than other central Texas cities, but can reach 100 F in the summer.
Climate data for Bastrop, Texas As of the census of 2000, there are 5340 citizens in Bastrop, organized into 2034 homeholds and 1336 families.
Spanish soldiers lived temporarily at the current site of Bastrop as early as 1804, when a fort was established where the Old San Antonio Road crossed the Colorado River and titled Puesta del Colorado.
Bastrop's namesake, Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop, was a commoner titled Philip Hendrik Nering Bogel, who was wanted for embezzlement in his native nation of the Netherlands.
Historic buildings with quaint shops and restaurants line Main Street in Bastrop.
The town was titled Bastrop, but two years later the Coahuila y Tejas council retitled it Mina with respect to Francisco Javier Mina, a Mexican revolutionary hero, and martyr.
The town was incorporated under the laws of the Republic of Texas on December 18, 1837, and the name was changed back to Bastrop.
Bastrop began supplying Austin with lumber in 1839 and then San Antonio, the Texas frontier, and parts of Mexico.
A fire in 1862 finished most of downtown Bastrop's commercial buildings and the county courthouse.
In 1979, the National Register of Historic Places admitted 131 Bastrop buildings and sites to its listings.
This earned Bastrop the title of the "Most Historic Small Town in Texas".
The first fire started in the improve of Circle D-KC Estates near Bastrop State Park, and the other fire started approximately 4 miles (6 km) north.
The two fires consolidated into the Bastrop County Complex fire.
Greenleaf Fisk (1807 1888), a legislator in the Republic of Texas and Bastrop County chief justice; he later moved to Brown County and became known as the "Father of Brownwood." Bastrop Christian Church is positioned adjoining to the municipal library.
The Bastrop Library is positioned in the end of the Historic District near the First Christian Church.
Calvary Episcopal Church of Bastrop is in the Historic District.
Ascension Catholic Church on Pine Street in Bastrop is athwart from the county courthouse.
Usually voted best burger in Bastrop.
Bastrop State Park Colorado River Bridge at Bastrop List of Registered Historic Places in Bastrop County, Texas "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Bastrop city, Texas".
Bastrop Independent School District.
The zone map shows which schools Bastrop is zoned to.
"Bastrop feeder pattern:" Bastrop Independent School District.
Bastrop Independent School District.
"Bastrop ISD Attendance Boundaries." Bastrop Independent School District.
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