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Bastrop, Louisiana

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The city of Bastrop is located in Morehouse Parish and is the county seat.

Bastrop is 30 feet [9.14 m] above sea level.<1>

Time Zone: Bastrop lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time.

Texas has a community that is also named Bastrop.

At the time of the 2000 Census, Bastrop had a population of 12,988 people<2> (or 41.95% of the total population of Morehouse Parish). The population of Bastrop represented 0.29% of the total of Louisiana, making it the state's 26th most populous community.

From the Census Estimates for 2008, Bastrop had a population of 11,814 people. This is a decrease of 9.04% since the 2000 Census.

The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated. More information can be found on the Census Page for Bastrop.

YearPopulationChange
Since 2000		Year-to-Year Change
200811,814-9.04%-0.71% since 2007
200711,899-8.38%-1.85% since 2006
200612,123-6.66%-0.85% since 2005
200512,227-5.86% 
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200012,988The Last Census

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

 Community DirectionDistance<3>2008
Population		Change
Since 2000
 Bonita   NE16 mi [25.75 km]3058.96% decrease
 Collinston   S6 mi [9.66 km]3027.65% decrease
 Leisure Village   SW16 mi [25.75 km]---
 Mer Rouge   E6 mi [9.66 km]6598.6% decrease
 Northpark Village   SW16 mi [25.75 km]---
 Oak Ridge   SE12 mi [19.31 km]1299.15% decrease

To learn more about neighboring communities, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Bastrop.


The Commemorative Quarter for Louisiana
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People are finding Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Bastrop. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

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  RV Parts     Schools    
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Fishing/Hunting     Hospitals      
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  Dentists      
Other...     Veterinarians      

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).



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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Bastrop? Please visit the Map Page for Bastrop.


Footnotes

<1>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Bastrop - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others.

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<2>Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Bastrop.

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<3>Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Bastrop and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance.

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<4>All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint.

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