Colorado is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...

Bastrop County, Texas Bastrop County is located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in Central Texas and its county seat is Bastrop. As of the 2020 census, the population was 97,216. Bastrop County is included in the Austin–Round Rock, Texas, metropolitan ...

, United States. It is located within the

Greater Austin 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 Ce ...

metropolitan area.

History

The community was named after the state of

Colorado Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of t ...

. A church and several scattered homes marked the community on county maps in the 1940s and it only had a church and cemetery but no homes by the 1980s. It did not have any population estimates in 2000.

Geography

Colorado is located southeast of Smithville in southeastern Bastrop County.

Education

Colorado had its own school in 1905, with one teacher and 50 black students. It is said to have joined the

Smithville Independent School District Smithville Independent School District is a public school district based in Smithville, Texas (USA). Located in Bastrop County, in which it serves Smithville and Rosanky, a small portion of the district extends into Fayette County. In 2009 ...

in 1921. The community continues to be served by the Smithville ISD today.

References

Unincorporated communities in Bastrop County, Texas Unincorporated communities in Texas {{BastropCountyTX-geo-stub