Bastrop is a city and the county chair of Bastrop County, Texas, United States. The population was 9,688 according to the 2020 census. Bastrop is known for its location in the aimless pines reforest that has experienced devastating wildfires in 2011 and 2022.

Spanish soldiers lived temporarily at the current site of Bastrop as in front as 1804, when a fort was acknowledged where the Old San Antonio Road crossed the Colorado River and named Puesta del Colorado.

Bastrop’s namesake, Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop, was a commoner named Philip Hendrik Nering Bogel, who was wanted for embezzlement in his indigenous country of the Netherlands. In Texas, he assisted Moses and Stephen F. Austin in obtaining house grants in Texas and served as Austin’s land commissioner. In 1827, Austin located not quite 100 families in an Place adjacent to his earlier Mexican contracts. Austin fixed for Mexican officials to read out a new town there after the baron who died the thesame year.

On June 8, 1832, the town was platted along enjoyable Mexican lines, with a square in the middle and blocks let for public buildings. The town was named Bastrop, but two years later, the Coahuila y Tejas legislature renamed it Mina in great compliment of 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 incite to Bastrop.