Bastrop is a city in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. It is the parish seat of Morehouse Parish. The population was 11,365 at the 2010 census, a subside of 1,623 from the 12,988 tabulation of 2000. The population of Bastrop is 73 percent African American. It is the principal city of and is included in the Bastrop, Louisiana Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Monroe-Bastrop, Louisiana Combined Statistical Area.

Bastrop was founded by the Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop, a Dutch businessman accused as an embezzler. He had fled to the later Spanish colony of Louisiana to escape prosecution, and became on the go in various house deals. In New Spain, he falsely claimed to be a nobleman. He acknowledged a large assent of land, provided that he could be the same 450 families upon it higher than the neighboring several years. However, he was unable to complete this, and correspondingly lost the grant. Afterwards, he moved to Texas, where he claimed to oppose the sale of Louisiana to the United States and became a minor dispensation official. He proved instrumental in Moses Austin’s plan (and later, that of his son, Stephen F. Austin) to bring American colonists to what was next northern Mexico.

Bastrop formally incorporated in 1857, and is the trailer and industrial center of Morehouse Parish. In the 19th century, it was notable as the western edge of the good north Louisiana swamp, but more favorable terrain resulted in the antebellum rail stock connecting to Monroe, Louisiana, further to the south.

Bastrop was a Confederate stronghold during the American Civil War until January 1865, when 3,000 cavalrymen led by Colonel Embury D. Osband of the 3rd United States Colored Cavalry Regiment, embarked from Memphis, Tennessee, for northeastern Louisiana.