Thirty miles southeast of Austin. The Colorado still does not code a deposit.
You are in Bastrop County, between post oak woods and the Colorado River, and the file is behind. This page is the remote close. There is no office here to drive to.
Bastrop County was established in 1836 and the county file lists it among the original 23 counties. The seat is Bastrop. The name is Baron Felipe Enrique Neri de Bastrop, the Dutch settler who helped Stephen F. Austin obtain land grants. In 1837 the Congress of the Republic restored the name Bastrop after the municipality had been called Mina, for Francisco Xavier Mina. The town dropped Mina the same year.
Smithville and Elgin sit with the seat on the rail line. Routes 71, 95, 21, and 304 cross the ground. Uplands carry sandy loam, plus cedar, hickory, elm, and walnut. A northwestern corner and a southeastern border turn to prairie. The Colorado River bisects the county from northwest to southeast. Near that river the handbook names the Lost Pine Forest. The McCormick site near McDade holds Neo-American traces. Tonkawa people lived on this ground, and Comanche hunters came to the river each autumn. In 1804 Spanish governor Manuel Antonio Cordero y Bustamante placed a fort at the Colorado crossing where Bastrop now stands. Austin's Little Colony grant dates to 1827. Minerals listed are clay, lignite, oil, gas, sand, and gravel.
Bastrop's own week is often woods along the Colorado plus whatever the mineral stub says.
The July 2026 Comptroller figure used here shows a county sales tax of 0.5% for Bastrop County. State sales tax is 6.25%. Where a city has its own rate, that city rate stacks on the state rate and any county rate. The combined cap is 8.25%. City rates are not listed on this page.
Business personal property renditions go to the county appraisal district for Bastrop County. Put April 15 on the calendar. That district's form says which date controls the list.
The franchise report is due May 15. Texas has no state income tax. Neither date goes away because of that.
Your pine belt and your prairie corner can both pay you before this month closes, under one county heading. Stumpage covers trees your mill scaled and hauled away. Lease money is rent on your prairie corner, and the grass remains once the rent is banked. Note stumpage on the tree check and lease on the rent check before either figure is typed into income. If a removal gets recorded as rent, the following month you may believe the pines remain standing when the scalehouse has taken them. If rent gets recorded as timber, you may schedule a cut on ground that only owed you a lease.
Keep a lignite stub, or a stub for clay, sand, or gravel, away from both labels. The stub pays you for material taken from a pit or a seam. That stub is neither a lease nor a scaled stand of pines. Copy only the mineral printed on the stub.
An invoice that prints Smithville or Elgin retains that town when you add the figure at the seat. You make the stumpage-or-lease note during the time the scale ticket stays clipped to the check. If that ticket is missing, hold the income line open until you find it, before the two figures share one total.
Book a time if the pine check and the farm ticket share one account.
Book a time to split the pine check from the farm ticket
Sources:
Handbook of Texas: Bastrop County
County sales tax is the July 2026 Texas Comptroller figure supplied in the project county file. Seat, year, name, and the county it was formed from are the same file.