List of Texas County Seat Name Etymologies

County Seat	County	Named for
La Grange	Fayette	The name of the former home of General Lafayette, the Revolutionary War hero for whom Fayette County is named
Lamesa	Dawson	Selected in place of the grammatically correct La Mesa, so called due to flatness of surrounding region.
Lampasas	Lampasas	The nearby Lampasas River, which was possibly named for Lampazos, Mexico
Laredo	Webb	Laredo, Spain
Leakey	Real	John Leakey, an early settler in the area
Levelland	Hockley	The level topography of the surrounding South Plains
Liberty	Liberty	Uncertain. The town was originally platted as Villa de la Santísima Trinidad de la Libertad, "Town of the Most Holy Trinity at Liberty," in reference to its position on the Trinity and the recent success of the Mexican War of Independence. The mostly Anglo settlers quickly renamed it to Liberty, which is variously explained as a simple Anglicization of the Spanish name or as an homage to their hometown of Liberty, Mississippi.
Linden	Cass	Uncertain, but reportedly named after the former home of a Tennesseean immigrant
Lipscomb	Lipscomb	Judge Abner Smith Lipscomb, a Texian Secretary of State
Littlefield	Lamb	George W. Littlefield, local ranch owner and town founder
Livingston	Polk	Livingston, Tennessee, hometown of founder Moses L. Choate
Llano	Llano	The nearby Llano River, which was named for the surrounding plains
Lockhart	Caldwell	Byrd Lockhart, an assistant surveyor and reportedly the first Anglo to set foot in the county
Longview	Gregg	Supposedly, for the impressive view railroad management could see from the house of Ossamus Hitch Methvin, Sr., who sold them the land for the town. Possibly ironic, given the town's location in heavily-forested East Texas.
Lubbock	Lubbock	Thomas Saltus Lubbock, a former Texas Ranger (some sources have Lubbock's first name as Thompson)
Lufkin	Angelina	Abraham P. Lufkin, a cotton merchant and Galveston city councilman, who was the son-in-law of Paul Bremond, president of the Houston, East and West Texas Railway which developed the town