List of Texas County Seat Name Etymologies

County Seat	County	Named for
Baird	Callahan	Matthew Baird, former owner of the Baldwin Locomotive Works
Ballinger	Runnels	William Pitt Ballinger, a Galveston attorney and railroad stockholder
Bandera	Bandera	Bandera Pass, named in turn for the Spanish word for flag
Bastrop	Bastrop	Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop, an early German settler
Bay City	Matagorda	its location on Bay Prairie
Beaumont	Jefferson	Jefferson Beaumont
Beeville	Bee	Barnard Elliott Bee, Sr., a secretary of state of the Republic of Texas
Bellville	Austin	Thomas B. Bell, one of the Old Three Hundred
Belton	Bell	its location in Bell County
Benjamin	Knox	Benjamin Bedford, a lightning victim and the son of Hilory H. Bedford, a president and controlling stockholder in the Wichita and Brazos Stock Company
Big Lake	Reagan	nearby Big Lake (which is usually dry in most years as it is located in arid West Texas)
Big Spring	Howard	nearby "big spring" in Sulphur Draw (a popular and often fought for location in arid West Texas; the spring remains active to this day and is now part of a local park)
Boerne	Kendall	Ludwig Boerne, a German author and publicist
Bonham	Fannin	James Butler Bonham, who died at the Alamo (ironically, Fannin County is named for the commander whose help Bonham enlisted to aid at the Alamo)
Boston	Bowie	Old Boston, Texas, named for store-owner W. J. Boston
Brackettville	Kinney	Oscar Bernadotte Brackett, an early merchant in the region
Brady	McCulloch	Brady Creek, which runs through the town
Breckenridge	Stephens	John Cabell Breckinridge, the fourteenth vice president of the United States (note the change in spelling)
Brenham	Washington	Richard Fox Brenham, a soldier in the Texas Revolution who had practiced medicine in the vicinity
Brownfield	Terry	a prominent ranching family in the area
Brownsville	Cameron	Fort Brown, named in turn for Major Jacob Brown, who died during an attack on the fort in the Mexican-American War
Brownwood	Brown	Henry Stevenson Brown, a commander at the Battle of Velasco
Bryan	Brazos	William Joel Bryan, a nephew of Stephen Fuller Austin who donated land for the town
Burnet	Burnet	David G. Burnet, president of the Republic of Texas