List of Texas County Seat Name Etymologies

County Seat	County	Named for
Gail	Borden	Gail Borden, Jr., businessman, publisher, surveyor, and inventor of condensed milk
Gainesville	Cooke	United States General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, a sympathizer of the Texas Revolution
Galveston	Galveston	Bernardo de Gálvez, a Spanish governor of the Louisiana Territory and an ally of the United States during the American Revolution
Garden City	Glasscock	Old Garden City, which had been intended to be Gardner City after a local store owner but was misnamed due to typographical error
Gatesville	Coryell	Nearby Fort Gates on the Leon River, which was named after Bvt. Mj. Collinson Reed Gates, a hero of the Mexican War
George West	Live Oak	George Washington West, a rancher who founded the town, paid the railroad to build through it, and paid to build the courthouse after county voters approved moving the county seat
Georgetown	Williamson	George Washington Glasscock, soldier of the Texan Revolution and politician, who donated the land for the site
Giddings	Lee	Uncertain: Most likely railroad official Jabez Deming Giddings, but possibly his brother, the politician Dewitt Clinton Giddings
Gilmer	Upshur	Captain Thomas W. Gilmer, United States Secretary of the Navy, who was killed along with county namesake Abel Parker Upshur when a new naval gun exploded during a demonstration aboard the USS Princeton on the Potomac.
Glen Rose	Somervell	An inversion of the original Rose Glen, selected by the wife of donor T.C. Jordan as a reminder of her native Scotland
Goldthwaite	Mills	Joe G. Goldthwaite, railroad official for the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway who auctioned the town lots
Goliad	Goliad	An anagram of the name of Mexican hero Father Miguel Hidalgo
Gonzales	Gonzales	Rafael Gonzales, governor of Coahuila y Tejas
Graham	Young	Gustavus A. and Edwin S. Graham, early settlers in the area
Granbury	Hood	Hiram B. Granbury, Confederate General
Greenville	Hunt	Thomas J. Green, a general in the Texas Army in the war for independence from Mexico and, later, a member of the Congress of the Republic of Texas
Groesbeck	Limestone	Abram Groesbeeck, a director of the Houston and Texas Central Railway
Groveton	Trinity	A grove of blackjack trees situated between the town and the nearby lumber mill
Guthrie	King	W.H. Guthrie of Kentucky, a major stockholder of the Louisville Land and Cattle Company which owned much of the surrounding area