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| Website | http://www.co.bastrop.tx.us/ |
| Established | December 18, 1837 |
| Disbanded | Still Active |
| Last Modified | RP December 28, 2022 11:12pm |
| Description | One of the original 23 counties, Bastrop County is named for Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop (actually a commoner named Philip Hendrik Nering Bogel wanted for embezzlement in the Netherlands), an early Dutch settler who assisted Stephen F. Austin in obtaining land grants in Texas. Its county seat is Bastrop.
Before the Congress of the Republic of Texas changed the county name to Bastrop in 1837, it was known as Mina Municipality. |
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April 14, 1874 -
BASTROP lost to creation of LEE.
(Texas Laws 1874, 14th leg., reg. sess., ch. 75/pp. 94-97)
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July 28, 1856 -
April 14, 1874
BASTROP exchanged with BURLESON and WILLIAMSON.
(Texas Laws 1856, 6th leg., adj. sess., ch. 88/p. 7)
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January 26, 1850 -
July 28, 1856
BASTROP lost to CALDWELL.
(Texas Laws 1849, 3d leg., reg. sess., ch. 73/p. 82)
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January 25, 1840 -
January 26, 1850
BASTROP lost to creation of TRAVIS.
(Texas Repub. Laws 1839, 4th cong./pp. 181, 254)
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December 18, 1837 -
January 25, 1840
MINA renamed BASTROP; BASTROP exchanged with BEXAR; part of BASTROP reverted to Non-County Area 3.
(Texas Repub. Laws 1837, 2d cong., 1st sess./pp. 90-91)
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