List of Texas County Seat Name Etymologies

County Seat	County	Named for
Abilene	Taylor	Abilene, Kansas, a famous cowtown
Albany	Shackelford	Albany, Georgia, the former home of an early settler
Alice	Jim Wells	Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg, the daughter of Richard King and wife of Robert Justus Kleberg III of the King Ranch
Alpine	Brewster	its location in mountainous West Texas
Amarillo	Potter	nearby Amarillo Lake and Amarillo Creek, in turn probably named for the yellow soil along their banks and shores (Amarillo is the Spanish word for yellow)
Anahuac	Chambers	the Anahuac region of Mexico, the ancient capital of the Aztecs
Anderson	Grimes	Kenneth Lewis Anderson, the last vice president of the Republic of Texas
Andrews	Andrews	Richard Andrews, the first Texan soldier to die in the Texas Revolution
Angleton	Brazoria	the wife of George W. Angle, a railroad official who had been prominent in making Velasco, Texas a deep-water port
Anson	Jones	Anson Jones, the last president of the Republic of Texas
Archer City	Archer	Branch Tanner Archer, a commissioner for the Republic of Texas
Aspermont	Stonewall	the Latin word for rough mountain
Athens	Henderson	hopes that the town would be a cultural center in the vein of Athens, Greece
Austin	Travis	Stephen F. Austin, who facilitated the Anglo American colonization of Texas and is known as the Father of Texas