Cedar Creek is an unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

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 located about 11 miles west of Bastrop

Bastrop, Texas

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there are 5340 people in Bastrop, organized into 2034 households and 1336 families. The population density is 734.8 people per square mile . There are 2,239 housing units at an average density of 308.1 per square mile...

 in Bastrop County, Texas

Bastrop County, Texas

Bastrop County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2006, the population was 71,700. Its county seat is Bastrop. Bastrop County is named for Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop , an early Dutch settler who assisted Stephen F...

, United States, around the intersection of Texas State Highway 21 and Farm to Market Road 535

Farm to Market Road 535

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. Although it is unincorporated, Cedar Creek has a post office, with the ZIP code of 78612. The community takes it name from a tributary

Tributary

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 of the Colorado River

Colorado River (Texas)

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 named Cedar Creek.

The 405-acre Hyatt

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 Regency Lost Pines Resort is located in Lost Pines.

History

In 1832, Addison and Mary Owen Litton and others settled the area around where the Old San Antonio Road

Old San Antonio Road

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 crossed Cedar Creek. A road from Austin

Austin, Texas

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 to the Gulf of Mexico

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 was laid out through Bastrop County near Cedar Creek in 1837. In 1842, the Methodist church became an important part of the community. Other churches followed, including a Presbyterian church in 1855. The first school was established in 1849. In 1852, a post office opened. In the 1883, a teacher-training school

Normal school

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 opened. By the late 1880s, the population dropped to 250. From the 1910s through the 1940s, oil played a part of the local economy and the population reached 300. In 2000, the population was 200.

Education

Students in the Cedar Creek area attend Cedar Creek Elementary School, Cedar Creek Intermediate School, Cedar Creek Middle school, and Cedar Creek High School

Cedar Creek High School (Texas)

Cedar Creek High School is a 3A high school located in Cedar Creek, Texas . It is part of the Bastrop Independent School District located in central Bastrop County. Cedar Creek opened with just freshmen and sophomores in the fall of 2010...

. All Cedar Creek schools are within the Bastrop Independent School District

Bastrop Independent School District

Bastrop Independent School District is a public school district based in Bastrop, Texas .In addition to Bastrop, the district also serves the communities of Camp Swift, Circle D-KC Estates, and Wyldwood as well as the Bastrop County portion of Mustang Ridge.In 2009, the school district was rated...

.

Parks

Cedar Creek County Park was dedicated in 2008. The 46 acre park is Bastrop County's first county park. The park features fields for football, soccer, and baseball, courts for basketball and sand volleyball, a playscape, nature trails, historic sites, picnic tables and a butterfly garden.

Notable residents

• Amanda Roberts Jones, the daughter of a slave who died at the age of 110, gained national attention by casting a vote for Barack Obama
  Barack Obama
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   in the 2008 United States Presidential Election
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