Rank | Name | Named For | Locator (hover over any row to display a map) |
1 | Anderson | K.L. Anderson (1805-45) |  |
2 | Andrews | Richard Andrews (?-1835) |  |
3 | Angelina | the Angelina River |  |
4 | Aransas | the Aransas River |  |
5 | Archer | Branch T. Archer (1790-1856) |  |
6 | Armstrong | a Texas pioneer family, now unknown |  |
7 | Atascosa | Spanish for "boggy" |  |
8 | Austin | Stephen F. Austin (1793-1836) |  |
9 | Bailey | Peter James Bailey III (1812-36) |  |
10 | Bandera | the Bandera Mountains |  |
11 | Bastrop | Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop (1759-1827) |  |
12 | Baylor | Henry W. Baylor (1818-54) |  |
13 | Bee | Barnard E. Bee Sr. (1787-1853) |  |
14 | Bell | Peter H. Bell (1812-98) |  |
15 | Bexar | Bejar, the hometown of the Spanish viceroy |  |
16 | Blanco | Blanco River |  |
17 | Borden | Gail Borden Jr. (1801-74) |  |
18 | Bosque | Bosque River |  |
19 | Bowie | James Bowie (1796-1836) |  |
20 | Brazoria | the county seat |  |
21 | Brazos | the Brazos River |  |
22 | Brewster | Henry P. Brewster (1816-84) |  |
23 | Briscoe | Andrew Briscoe (1810-49) |  |
24 | Brooks | James Brooks (1855-1944) |  |
25 | Brown | Henry S. Brown (1793-1834) |  |
26 | Burleson | Edward Burleson (1798-1851) |  |
27 | Burnet | David G. Burnet (1788-1870) |  |
28 | Caldwell | Matthew Caldwell (1798-42) |  |
29 | Calhoun | John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) |  |
30 | Callahan | James H. Callahan (1812-56) |  |
31 | Cameron | Ewen Cameron (1811-43) |  |
32 | Camp | John L. Camp (1828-91) |  |
33 | Carson | Samuel P. Carson (1798-1838) |  |
34 | Cass | Lewis Cass (1782-1866) |  |
35 | Castro | Henri Castro (1786-1865) |  |
36 | Chambers | Thomas Jefferson Chambers (1802-65) |  |
37 | Cherokee | the Cherokee tribe |  |
38 | Childress | George C. Childress (1804-41) |  |
39 | Clay | Henry Clay (1825-29) |  |
40 | Cochran | Robert E. Cochran (1810-36) |  |
41 | Coke | Richard Coke (1829-97) |  |
42 | Coleman | Robert M. Coleman (1799-1837) |  |
43 | Collin | Collin McKinney (1766-1861) |  |
44 | Collingsworth | James Collinsworth (1806-38) |  |
45 | Colorado | the Colorado River |  |
46 | Comal | the Comal River |  |
47 | Comanche | the Comanche tribe |  |
48 | Concho | the Concho River |  |
49 | Cooke | William G. Cooke (1808-47) |  |
50 | Coryell | James Coryell (1803-37) |  |
51 | Cottle | George Washington Cottle (1811-36) |  |
52 | Crane | William C. Crane (1816-85) |  |
53 | Crockett | David Crockett (1786-1836) |  |
54 | Crosby | Stephen Crosby (1808-69) |  |
55 | Culberson | David B. Culberson (1830-1900) |  |
56 | Dallam | James W. Dallam (1818-47) |  |
57 | Dallas | George M. Dallas |  |
58 | Dawson | Nicholas M. Dawson (1800-42) |  |
59 | Deaf Smith | Erastus "Deaf" Smith (1787-1837) |  |
60 | Delta | the county's triangular shape |  |
61 | Denton | John B. Denton (1806-41) |  |
62 | DeWitt | Green DeWitt (1787-1835) |  |
63 | Dickens | James R. Dimpkins (?-1836) |  |
64 | Dimmit | Philip Dimmitt (1801-41) |  |
65 | Donley | Stockton P. Donley (1821-71) |  |
66 | Duval | Burr H. DuVal (1809-36) |  |
67 | Eastland | William M. Eastland (1806-1843) |  |
68 | Ector | Matthew Ector (1822-79) |  |
69 | Edwards | Hayden Edwards (1771-1849) |  |
70 | Ellis | Richard Ellis (1781-1846) |  |
71 | El Paso | a local mountain pass |  |
72 | Erath | George B. Erath (1813-91) |  |
73 | Falls | falls on the Brazos River |  |
74 | Fannin | James W. Fannin (1805-36) |  |
75 | Fayette | Lafayette (1757-1834) |  |
76 | Fisher | Samuel Rhoads Fisher (1794-1839) |  |
77 | Floyd | Dolphin W. Floyd (1804-36) |  |
78 | Foard | Robert L. Foard (1831-98) |  |
79 | Fort Bend | blockhouse (small fort) on a river bend |  |
80 | Franklin | Benjamin C. Franklin (1805-73) |  |
81 | Freestone | a stone used in masonry |  |
82 | Frio | the Frio River |  |
83 | Gaines | James T. Gaines (1776-1856) |  |
84 | Galveston | the county seat |  |
85 | Garza | family of Jose Antonio de la Garza (1776-1851) |  |
86 | Gillespie | Robert A. Gillespie (1815-46) |  |
87 | Glasscock | George Washington Glasscock (1810-68) |  |
88 | Goliad | the county seat |  |
89 | Gonzales | the county seat |  |
90 | Gray | Peter W. Gray (1819-74) |  |
91 | Grayson | Peter W. Grayson (1788-1838) |  |
92 | Gregg | John Gregg (1828-1864) |  |
93 | Grimes | Jesse Grimes (1788-1866) |  |
94 | Guadalupe | the Guadalupe River |  |
95 | Hale | John C. Hale (1806-36) |  |
96 | Hall | Warren D.C. Hall (1788-1867) |  |
97 | Hamilton | James Hamilton Jr. (1786-1857) |  |
98 | Hansford | John M. Hansford (?-1844) |  |
99 | Hardeman | Bailey (1795-1836) and T.J. Hardeman (1788-1854) |  |
100 | Hardin | family of William Hardin (1801-39) |  |
101 | Harris | John R. Harris (1790-1829) |  |
102 | Harrison | Jonas Harrison (1777-1836) |  |
103 | Hartley | Oliver C. (1823-59) and Rufus K. Hartley |  |
104 | Haskell | Charles R. Haskell (1817-36) |  |
105 | Hays | John C. Hays (1817-83) |  |
106 | Hemphill | John Hemphill (1803-62) |  |
107 | Henderson | James Pinckney Henderson (1808-58) |  |
108 | Hidalgo | Miguel Hidalgo (1753-1811) |  |
109 | Hill | George Washington Hill (1814-1860) |  |
110 | Hockley | George Washington Hockley (1802-51) |  |
111 | Hood | John Bell Hood (1831-79) |  |
112 | Hopkins | family of David Hopkins (1825-1906) |  |
113 | Houston | Sam Houston (1793-1863) |  |
114 | Howard | Volney E. Howard (1809-89) |  |
115 | Hudspeth | Claude B. Hudspeth (1877-1941) |  |
116 | Hunt | Memucan Hunt Jr. (1807-56) |  |
117 | Hutchinson | Anderson Hutchinson (1798-1853) |  |
118 | Irion | Robert A. Irion (1804-61) |  |
119 | Jack | Patrick (1808-44) and William (1806-44) Jack |  |
120 | Jackson | Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) |  |
121 | Jasper | William Jasper (1750-79) |  |
122 | Jeff Davis | Jefferson Davis (1808-89) |  |
123 | Jefferson | Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) |  |
124 | Jim Hogg | James S. Hogg (1851-1906) |  |
125 | Jim Wells | James B. Wells Jr. (1850-1923) |  |
126 | Johnson | Middleton Tate Johnson (1810-66) |  |
127 | Jones | Anson Jones (1798-1858) |  |
128 | Karnes | Henry W. Karnes (1812-40) |  |
129 | Kaufman | David S. Kaufman (1813-51) |  |
130 | Kendall | George W. Kendall (1809-67) |  |
131 | Kenedy | Miflin Kenedy (1818-95) |  |
132 | Kent | Andrew Kent (179?-1836) |  |
133 | Kerr | Joseph Kerr (1790-1850) |  |
134 | Kimble | George C. Kimball (1803-36) |  |
135 | King | William P. King (1820-36) |  |
136 | Kinney | Henry Kinney (1814-62) |  |
137 | Kleberg | Robert J. Kleberg (1803-88) |  |
138 | Knox | Henry Knox (1750-1806) |  |
139 | Lamar | Mirabeau B. Lamar (1798-1859) |  |
140 | Lamb | George A. Lamb (1814-36) |  |
141 | Lampasas | the Lampasas River |  |
142 | La Salle | Robert La Salle (1643-87) |  |
143 | Lavaca | the Lavaca River |  |
144 | Lee | Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) |  |
145 | Leon | Martín De León (1765-1833) |  |
146 | Liberty | the county seat |  |
147 | Limestone | the indigenous rock |  |
148 | Lipscomb | Abner S. Lipscomb (1789-1856) |  |
149 | Live Oak | the indigenous tree |  |
150 | Llano | the Llano River |  |
151 | Loving | Oliver Loving (1812-67) |  |
152 | Lubbock | Thomas S. Lubbock (1817-62) |  |
153 | Lynn | William Linn (?-1836) |  |
154 | McCulloch | Benjamin McCulloch (1811-62) |  |
155 | McLennan | Neil McLennan (1777?-1867) |  |
156 | McMullen | John McMullen (1785-1853) |  |
157 | Madison | James Madison (1751-1836) |  |
158 | Marion | Francis Marion (1732-95) |  |
159 | Martin | Wylie Martin (1776-1842) |  |
160 | Mason | the county seat |  |
161 | Matagorda | the once-indigenous canebrakes |  |
162 | Maverick | Samuel Maverick (1803-70) |  |
163 | Medina | the Medina River |  |
164 | Menard | Michael B. Menard (1805-56) |  |
165 | Midland | the county seat |  |
166 | Milam | Ben Milam (1788-1835) |  |
167 | Mills | John T. Mills (1817-71) |  |
168 | Mitchell | Asa (1795-1865) and Eli (1797-1870) Mitchell |  |
169 | Montague | Daniel Montague (1798-1876) |  |
170 | Montgomery | the county seat |  |
171 | Moore | Edwin W. Moore (1810-65) |  |
172 | Morris | William W. Morris (1805-83) |  |
173 | Motley | Junius W. Mottley (1812?-36) |  |
174 | Nacogdoches | the county seat |  |
175 | Navarro | Jose Antonio Navarro (1795-1871) |  |
176 | Newton | John Newton (1755-80) |  |
177 | Nolan | Philip Nolan (1771-1801) |  |
178 | Nueces | the Nueces River |  |
179 | Ochiltree | William B. Ochiltree (1811-67) |  |
180 | Oldham | William S. Oldham (1813-68) |  |
181 | Orange | an orange grove planted by settlers |  |
182 | Palo Pinto | the Palo Pinto Creek |  |
183 | Panola | Choctaw for "cotton" |  |
184 | Parker | Isaac Parker (1793-1883) |  |
185 | Parmer | Martin Parmer (1778-1850) |  |
186 | Pecos | the Pecos River |  |
187 | Polk | James K. Polk (1795-1849) |  |
188 | Potter | Robert Potter (1800-42) |  |
189 | Presidio | Presidio del Norte |  |
190 | Rains | Emory Rains (1800-78) |  |
191 | Randall | Horace Randal (1833-64) |  |
192 | Reagan | John H. Reagan (1818-1905) |  |
193 | Real | Julius Real (1860-1944) |  |
194 | Red River | the Red River |  |
195 | Reeves | George R. Reeves (1826-82) |  |
196 | Refugio | the county seat |  |
197 | Roberts | brothers Oran M. Roberts (1815-98) and John S. Roberts (1796-1871) |  |
198 | Robertson | Sterling C. Robertson (1820-79) |  |
199 | Rockwall | the county seat |  |
200 | Runnels | Hardin R. Runnels (1820-73) |  |
201 | Rusk | Thomas Jefferson Rusk (1803-57) |  |
202 | Sabine | the Sabine River |  |
203 | San Augustine | the county seat |  |
204 | San Jacinto | the battle of San Jacinto |  |
205 | San Patricio | the county seat |  |
206 | San Saba | the San Saba River |  |
207 | Schleicher | Gustav Schleicher (1823-79) |  |
208 | Scurry | William R. Scurry (1821-64) |  |
209 | Shackelford | Jack Shackelford (1790-1857) |  |
210 | Shelby | Isaac Shelby (1750-1826) |  |
211 | Sherman | Sidney Sherman (1805-73) |  |
212 | Smith | James Smith (1792-1854) |  |
213 | Somervell | Alexander Somervell (1796-1854) |  |
214 | Starr | James H. Starr (1809-90) |  |
215 | Stephens | Alexander H. Stephens (1812-83) |  |
216 | Sterling | W.S. Sterling (?-1881?) |  |
217 | Stonewall | "Stonewall" Jackson (1824-63) |  |
218 | Sutton | J. S. Sutton (1817?-62) |  |
219 | Swisher | James G. Swisher (1794-1862) |  |
220 | Tarrant | Edward H. Tarrant (1799-1858) |  |
221 | Taylor | Edward (1812-36), James (1814-36), and George (1816-36) Taylor |  |
222 | Terrell | Alexander W. Terrell (1827-1912) |  |
223 | Terry | Frank Terry (1821-61) |  |
224 | Throckmorton | William E. Throckmorton (1795-1843) |  |
225 | Titus | Andrew J. Titus (1814-55) |  |
226 | Tom Green | Tom Green (1814-64) |  |
227 | Travis | William B. Travis (1809-36) |  |
228 | Trinity | the Trinity River |  |
229 | Tyler | John Tyler (1790-1862) |  |
230 | Upshur | Abel P. Upshur (1790-1844) |  |
231 | Upton | John C. (1828-1862 and William F. (1832-87) Upton |  |
232 | Uvalde | Uvalde Canyon |  |
233 | Val Verde | the Battle of Valverde |  |
234 | Van Zandt | Isaac Van Zandt (1813-47) |  |
235 | Victoria | the county seat |  |
236 | Walker | Samuel H. Walker (1817-47) |  |
237 | Waller | Edwin Waller (1800-81) |  |
238 | Ward | Thomas W. Ward (1807-72) |  |
239 | Washington | George Washington (1732-99) |  |
240 | Webb | James Webb (1792-1856) |  |
241 | Wharton | William H. (1802-39) and John A. (1828-65) Wharton |  |
242 | Wheeler | Royall T. Wheeler (1810-1864) |  |
243 | Wichita | the Wichita tribe |  |
244 | Wilbarger | Josiah P. (1801-45) and Mathias (1807?-53) Wilbarger |  |
245 | Willacy | John G. Willacy (1859-1943) |  |
246 | Williamson | Robert A. Williamson (1804?-59) |  |
247 | Wilson | James C. Wilson (1816-61) |  |
248 | Winkler | Clinton M. Winkler (1821-82) |  |
249 | Wise | Henry A. Wise (1806-76) |  |
250 | Wood | George T. Wood (1795-1858) |  |
251 | Yoakum | Henderson K. Yoakum (1810-56) |  |
252 | Young | William C. Young (1812-62) |  |
253 | Zapata | Antonio Zapata y Cisneros (1800-40) |  |
254 | Zavala | Lorenzo de Zavala (1788-1836) |  |