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Bastrop County, Texas

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
101historic places
—earliest paper
1836formed
97,216pop. 2020
39cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 101 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1971; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Bastrop, Elgin, Smithville.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Texas is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Bastrop titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

97 of 101 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

101 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Allen-Bell HouseBastropBuilding1971
Baron, August, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Bastain-Haralson, Ed, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Bastrop Commercial DistrictBastropBuilding1978
Bastrop County Courthouse and Jail ComplexBastropBuilding1975
Bastrop State Park NHLBastropDistrict1997
Batts, Judge R., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Brannon, S. L., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Brieger, R. J., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Brooks, Jennie, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Brooks-Wilbarger HouseBastropBuilding1978
Buchanan, J. C., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Casino HallBastropBuilding1978
Colorado River Bridge at BastropBastropSite1990
Combs, H. B., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Cornelsum, John, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Crocheron-McDowall HouseBastropBuilding1978
Crysup, J. T., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Davis, George W., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Dawson HouseBastropBuilding1978
Duval, Mary, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Elgin Commercial Historic DistrictElginDistrict1996
Elzner HouseBastropBuilding1978
Elzner, August, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Elzner, Prince, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Erhard HouseBastropBuilding1978
Erhard, A. A., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Erhard, Adolph A., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Erhard, E. C., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Farm HouseBastropBuilding1978
Fowler HouseBastropBuilding1978
Fowler-Jenkins HouseBastropBuilding1978
Fry, P. A., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Green, Rufus A., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Griesenbeck HouseBastropBuilding1978
Griesenbeck, Alf, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Griesenbeck, Erna, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Griesenbeck, R. J., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Grimes, Dr. C. A., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Hall-Sayers-Perkins HouseBastropBuilding1978
Harlson, Eugene, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Hasler, Emelia, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Hasler, T. A., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Hill, Abraham Wiley, HouseHills PrairieBuilding1971
Hopewell SchoolCedar CreekBuilding2015
House at 1002 PineBastropBuilding1978
House at 1002 WalnutBastropBuilding1978
House at 1105 HillBastropBuilding1978
House at 1108 HillBastropBuilding1978
House at 1301 HillBastropBuilding1978
House at 1308 FayetteBastropBuilding1978
House at 1316 FarmBastropBuilding1978
House at 311 PecanBastropBuilding1978
House at 604 ElmBastropBuilding1978
House at 806 JeffersonBastropBuilding1978
Houses at 703 and 704 AustinBastropBuilding1978
Hubbard-Trigg HouseBastropBuilding1978
Iron BridgeBastropStructure1978
Jenkins HouseBastropBuilding1978
Jenkins HouseBastropBuilding1978
Jones, George Washington, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Jones, Oliver P., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Jung Storage BuildingBastropBuilding1978
Jung, Alf, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Jung, Joe, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Kerr Community CenterBastropBuilding1978
Kerr, Beverly and Lula, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Kleinert HouseBastropBuilding1978
Kohler-McPhaul HouseBastropBuilding1978
Lower Elgin Road Bridge at Wilbarger CreekUtleyStructure2017
Luckett, H. P., HouseBastropBuilding1978
MKT DepotBastropBuilding1978
Manlove, Bartholomew, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Mary Christian Burleson HouseElginBuilding2024
Maynard, Powell C., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Maynard, W. E., HouseBastropBuilding1978
McNeil, Harriet and Charlie, HouseBastropBuilding1978
McNeil, Marcellus, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Miley, Willis, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Old Bastrop Co. PavilionBastropBuilding1978
Olive, L. W., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Orgain, Elbert S., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Orgain, Sarah Jane, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Page, Paul D., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Pearcy, J. H., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Phieffer HouseBastropBuilding1978
Pledger, J. W., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Ploeger-Kerr-White HouseBastropBuilding1978
Rabensburg HouseBastropBuilding1978
Reding, Mrs. William R., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Sayers, Gov. Joseph, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Schaeffer, W. F., HouseBastropBuilding1978
Smithville Commercial Historic DistrictSmithvilleDistrict1982
Smithville Residential Historic DistrictSmithvilleDistrict1995
Starcke, Richard, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Starcke, Richard, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Taylor, Campbell and Greenlief Fisk, HouseBastropBuilding1978
Waugh HouseBastropBuilding1978
White HouseBastropBuilding1978
Wilke HouseBastropBuilding1978
Wilkes, Minnie, HouseBastropBuilding1978

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Bastrop was formed in 1836 (1836-03-02) from unknown / original county.

Mexican municipality of MINA became part of the Republic of Texas.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Bastrop County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

97k50k3,0991850188019201940196020002020
18501860188019001920194019501960198020002020
3,0997,00617,21526,84526,64921,61019,62216,92524,72657,73397,216

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

39 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 39 of 39 listed
NameLatLon
Adams Morris Thompson Cemetery30.06148-97.20609
Alexander Eldridge Cemetery30.07941-97.4454
Alta Vista Cemetery30.10142-97.30457
Alum Creek Cemetery30.06577-97.21478
Antioch Cemetery30.03839-97.32578
Antioch Cemetery30.11379-97.18485
Colorado Cemetery29.97939-97.13415
Dixon Cemetery30.20021-97.15027
Dube Cemetery30.31493-97.21082
Fairview Cemetery30.11514-97.30583
Gazley Cemetery30.00086-97.17361
Hendrix Cemetery29.97661-97.41499
High Hill Cemetery30.27993-97.16332
Hog Eye Cemetery30.30521-97.385
Jeddo Cemetery29.81439-97.31527
Lentz Cemetery29.97196-97.44121
Lower Cedar Creek Cemetery30.08855-97.5125
Meredith Family Cemetery29.99889-97.42859
Morgan Chapel Cemetery30.33944-97.27818
Mount Moriah Cemetery30.35521-97.35305
New Red Rock Cemetery29.96355-97.45611
Oak Hill Cemetery29.98328-97.16499
Old Bartons Creek Cemetery29.90272-97.23416
Old Red Rock Cemetery29.96578-97.47083
Pleasant Chapel Cemetery30.02827-97.40916
Powell Cemetery30.04189-97.1711
Robbins Cemetery29.86213-97.24043
Rosanky Cemetery29.93411-97.3111
Saint Phillips Cemetery29.84161-97.32332
Smith Cemetery30.37091-97.35972
Smith Cemetery29.95272-97.39583
Speir Cemetery30.27188-97.41444
Upper Cedar Creek Cemetery30.08383-97.52361
Walker-Watson Cemetery30.15022-97.40749
Wilson Cemetery30.25417-97.3912
Wolfenberger Cemetery30.02399-97.4184
Wrights Cemetery30.10383-97.47833
Young Cemetery29.98855-97.27388
Youngs Prairie Cemetery30.29104-97.39972
Historical populated places — 2 of 2
NameLatLon
Pleasant Grove30.38299-97.31555
Shiloh30.09188-97.38333

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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