Jordan, Texas | |
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Coordinates: 29°56′27″N97°21′17″W / 29.94083°N 97.35472°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Texas |
County | Bastrop |
Elevation | 436 ft (133 m) |
Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
Area code(s) | 512 & 737 |
GNIS feature ID | 1380013 [1] |
Jordan is an unincorporated community in Bastrop County, Texas, United States. [1]
Jordan is served by the Bastrop Independent School District.
Bastrop County is located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in Central Texas and its county seat is Bastrop.
Bastrop is a city and the county seat of Bastrop County, Texas, United States. The population was 9,688 according to the 2020 census. It is located about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Austin and is part of the Greater Austin metropolitan area.
Camp Swift is a census-designated place (CDP) in Bastrop County, Texas, United States. The population was 7,943 at the 2020 census. Camp Swift began as a United States Army training base built in 1942. It is named after Major General Eben Swift.
Circle D-KC Estates is a census-designated place (CDP) in Bastrop County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,588 at the 2020 census.
George Washington Jones was an American politician who served as lieutenant governor of Texas and was a Greenback member of the United States House of Representatives.
Bastrop Independent School District is a public school district in Bastrop, Texas, United States. The district serves the communities of Bastrop, Camp Swift, Cedar Creek, Circle D-KC Estates, Paige, Red Rock, Rockne, Wyldwood, and other rural areas of Bastrop County.
Bastrop State Park is a state park in Bastrop County, Texas, United States. The park was established in 1933 and consists of stands of loblolly pines mixed with post oak and junipers.
The Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos metropolitan statistical area, or Greater Austin, is a five-county metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Texas, as defined by the Office of Management and Budget. The metropolitan area is situated in Central Texas on the western edge of the American South and on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, and borders Greater San Antonio to the south.
The Federal Correctional Institution, Bastrop is an administrative-low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Camp Swift, Texas. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has an adjacent satellite prison camp that houses minimum-security offenders.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bastrop County, Texas.
Felipe Enrique Neri was a Dutch businessman and land owner known for his money in Anglo-American settlement of Texas.
Cedar Creek is an unincorporated community in Bastrop County, Texas, United States, located 11 miles (18 km) west of Bastrop at the intersection of State Highway 21 and Farm to Market Road 535. Cedar Creek has a post office with a ZIP code 78612. The community takes its name from Cedar Creek, a tributary of the Colorado River.
Paige is an unincorporated community in Bastrop County, Texas, United States. Paige has a post office with the ZIP code 78659.
Red Rock is an unincorporated community in Bastrop County, Texas, United States.
Pettytown is an unincorporated community in Bastrop and Caldwell counties in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the Handbook of Texas, there are currently no population estimates available for the community. It is located within the Greater Austin metropolitan area.
Bastrop High School is a public high school in Bastrop, Texas (USA) the UIL classifies as a 5A school. It is part of the Bastrop Independent School District located in central Bastrop County. In 2015, the school was rated "Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency.
The Bastrop County Complex fire was a conflagration that engulfed parts of Bastrop County, Texas, in September and October 2011. The wildfire was the costliest and most destructive wildfire in Texas history and among the costliest in U.S. history, destroying 1,696 structures and causing an estimated $350 million in insured property damage. An exceptional drought, accompanied by record-high temperatures, affected Texas for much of 2011. Vegetation consequently became severely parched throughout the state, and over the year an unprecedented amount of land in the state was burned by numerous wildfires. In early September 2011, the presence of Tropical Storm Lee to the east produced strong northerly winds over the state, exacerbating the preexisting dry weather to produce critical fire conditions. On the afternoon of September 4, 2011, three separate fires ignited in the wildland–urban interface east of Bastrop, Texas, after strong winds caused by the nearby tropical storm snapped trees onto power lines. Within 48 hours, fires merged into one blaze that quickly consumed parts of Bastrop State Park and parts of the Lost Pines Forest, as well as homes in nearby subdivisions. Most of the conflagration's spread and destruction occurred within a week of ignition, as the forward advance of the wildfire mostly stopped after September 7. The wildfire was largely contained in September, though the firebreak was briefly breached in early October. On October 10, the Bastrop County Complex was declared controlled and the fire was declared extinguished on October 29 after 55 days of burning within the fire perimeter.
Phelan is a ghost town in Bastrop County, Texas, United States. It is located 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Bastrop near the intersection of Farm to Market Road 157 and Farm to Market Road 36. It is on private property.
Salem is an unincorporated community in Bastrop County, Texas, United States. The town is one of 17 communities named Salem in the state. It is located within the Greater Austin metropolitan area.
Swiftex is an unincorporated community in Bastrop County, located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is located within the Greater Austin metropolitan area.