THE BASTROP LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Floodplains and Low Terraces setting.
Bastrop city has 9.84 square miles of land in Bastrop County. Its Census reference point is in Floodplains and Low Terraces, within East Central Texas Plains.
The Post Oak Savanna's irregular plains form a transition between open prairie and the Piney Woods. Post oak, grassland and locally dense clay subsoils are characteristic regional elements.
Regional context: East Central Texas Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Bastrop and Bastrop County
Bastrop is associated with Bastrop County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Bastrop by land and water
The Census records 0.18 square miles of water within Bastrop, or 1.7% of its total area. It is 0.9 percentage points higher than the 0.8% recorded for Bastrop County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bastrop city has 81.5% of the land area of nearby Camp Swift CDP (12.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

