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Austin is the capital of Texas and the 12th-most populous city in the United States with 961,855 residents as of the 2020 census, while its metropolitan area of 2.55 million ranks 25th nationally. Located in Central Texas within the Hill Country and incorporated on December 27, 1839, Austin is the county seat of Travis County and has been one of the fastest-growing large cities in the U.S. since 2010. Known officially as "The Live Music Capital of the World" due to its vibrant music scene and the PBS series Austin City Limits, the city also earned the nickname "Silicon Hills" in the 1990s following rapid growth of technology companies including IBM (1967), Texas Instruments (1969), and Motorola (1974), with Fortune 500 firms like Apple, Google, Dell, Intel, and Tesla now headquartered or maintaining major offices there. Austin's economy has diversified from its historical foundation in government and education to become a major tech hub, and the city is home to the University of Texas at Austin with over 50,000 students. The region has supported human habitation since at least 9200 BC, with the Clovis culture represented at the Gault Site, and Austin itself is situated approximately 80 miles from San Antonio along the I-35 corridor within a combined metropolitan region of 5 million people. Georgetown, Texas is the county seat of Williamson County located 30 miles north of Austin with a population of 67,176 at the 2020 census, growing to an estimated 101,344 by 2024. Named for George Washington Glasscock who donated the land, Georgetown developed from an agrarian community centered on cotton production and the cattle-driving Shawnee Trail into a regional hub after Southwestern University's establishment in 1873 and railroad construction in 1878. The city is renowned for its Victorian architecture, with a historic district containing 46 contributing structures listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and it earned the title "Red Poppy Capital of Texas" for its wildflower plantings and annual Red Poppy Festival held each April that attracts tens of thousands of visitors. Southwestern University, founded in 1840, remains the oldest university in Texas and continues to anchor the community. Modern development accelerated dramatically after 1960 due to Austin's expansion, with Lake Georgetown, created by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam completed in 1979, now providing water resources for the growing metropolitan area. Bastrop is a city and county seat of Bastrop County, Texas, located approximately 30 miles southeast of Austin within the Greater Austin metropolitan area, with a 2020 population of 9,688. Named after Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop, a Dutch-born official who assisted Stephen F. Austin with land grants, the town was platted in 1832 and incorporated under the Republic of Texas in 1837. The Lost Pines Forest, comprising loblolly pines and the westernmost stand of the southern pine forest, became central to Bastrop's economy beginning in 1839 when the town started supplying lumber to Austin, San Antonio, and beyond. Bastrop earned recognition as "Most Historic Small Town in Texas" after 131 buildings and sites were admitted to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, with most downtown structures postdating a destructive 1862 fire. The city gained national attention following the devastating 2011 Bastrop County Complex fire, Texas's worst wildfire in history, which destroyed 1,691 homes and caused $325 million in insured property damage.