Smithville, Texas Smithville, Texas Location of Smithville, Texas Location of Smithville, Texas State Texas Smithville is a town/city in Bastrop County, Texas, United States, near the Colorado River.
The populace was 3,817 at the 2010 census. Smithville is part of the Greater Austin urbane area.
Thomas Jefferson Gazley appeared in 1827 and set the pace of evolution for Smithville by building the first home and establishing the first store, which served incoming pioneer and the friendly Lipan and Tonkawa Indians.
He later served in the Mexican government and helped write the Texas Declaration of Independence and the first Constitution, and became a true Texas hero.
They also owned a store and were early influences on the area, including the naming of Smithville where about seventeen families lived on the south bank of the Colorado River.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas took over the Taylor, Bastrop, and Houston Railroad in 1891.
In 1894, the MK&T established central shops in Smithville, giving rise to expansion which resulted in Smithville becoming the biggest town in Bastrop County for nearly fifty years.
In 1895, this grow town was officially incorporated into the City of Smithville.
Almost immediately, the town/city fathers recognized the importance of education by creating the Smithville School District; and Smithville has been fortunate amid its evolution to have forward-thinking men and women who were stalwart and industrious and who paved the way to the fine town/city and enviable way of life its people appreciate today.
Smithville is positioned in southeastern Bastrop County at 30 00 26 N 97 09 18 W. It is 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Bastrop and 42 miles (68 km) southeast of Austin.
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,901 citizens , 1,491 homeholds, and 990 families residing in the city.
There were 1,672 housing units at an average density of 476.9 per square mile (183.9/km2).
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 78.01% White, 14.53% African American, 0.31% Native American, 0.41% Asian, 5.10% from other competitions, and 1.64% from two or more competitions.
The average homehold size was 2.53 and the average family size was 3.15.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 27.2% under the age of 18, 7.3% from 18 to 24, 27.3% from 25 to 44, 19.3% from 45 to 64, and 18.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $35,586, and the median income for a family was $45,163.
About 12.1% of families and 15.9% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 21.2% of those under age 18 and 17.9% of those age 65 or over.
Smithville is served by the Smithville Independent School District and home to the Smithville High School Tigers.
Long Railroad Museum, positioned at the intersection of First and Main streets in Smithville, contains exhibits and relics from Smithville's barns history.
The Smithville postal service contains an petroleum on canvas mural, The Law, Texas Rangers, painted in 1939 by Minette Teichmueller.
Born in Smithville and later moved to Houston.
Climate data for Smithville, Texas According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.5 square miles (9.1 km2), of which 3.5 square miles (9.1 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) (0.85%) is water.
Smithville has its own music and film commission and continues to promote itself as a Film Friendly Community, a designation it received from the Texas Film Commission in 2008.
Following is a list of productions that had recording locations in Smithville.
Was set and filmed in Smithville, and was released at theaters athwart the country on May 29, 1998.
The Tree of Life starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain was filmed in Smithville, and was released in May 2011.
The film, which was directed by Terrence Malick, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011.
The film Natural Selection starring Rachael Harris was filmed in Smithville and released in 2011.
The film Doonby starring John Schneider was filmed in Smithville in 2010, and was released in 2011.
The Richard Linklater-directed film Bernie was filmed in Smithville.
The horror-thriller film Beneath the Darkness starring Dennis Quaid, Tony Oller and Aimee Teegarden was released in 2012.
Smithville has also been the locale for a several commercials, prominently Valero Energy Corporation and Dairy Queen.
Smitty the Gingerbread Man stands as a reminder of Smithville's Guinness World Record for baking the biggest gingerbread man at the time.
On December 2, 2006, at the city's 16th Annual Festival of Lights, Smithville broke the Guinness World Record for the world's biggest gingerbread man.
Long Railroad Park in Smithville.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Smithville city, Texas".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Texas State University.
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Cities in Bastrop County, Texas - Cities in Texas - Cities in Greater Austin - Populated places established in 1827 - 1827 establishments in Texas
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