Statistics for How 50 Texas Cities Got Their Names

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Named For....	City	% Correct
"Father of Texas"	Austin	98%
General of the Texas Revolution	Houston	95%
Vice President of the US at the time	Dallas	89%
Spanish feast day	San Antonio	89%
Mountain pass the city sits in	El Paso	88%
Yellow wild flowers in the area	Amarillo	82%
Hero of the Mexican-American War	Fort Worth	82%
Catholic feast day on which it was explored	Corpus Christi	81%
Soldier of the Texas Revolution	Lubbock	70%
It's location midway between two railway stations	Midland	70%
It's similarity to a Ukrainian area	Odessa	68%
Robert E. Lee's Virginia House	Arlington	67%
City of the same name in Santander, Spain	Laredo	63%
Native American tribe whose village was on the current site	Waco	60%
It's important cattle counterpart in Kansas	Abilene	58%
Commander of Fort Texas during the Mexican-American War	Brownsville	58%
The US post office rejected the original name of "Santa Angela"	San Angelo	56%
University that calls this city home	College Station	54%
City of the same name in California	Pasadena	54%
US President of the time who supported Texas annexation	Tyler	54%
The Native American tribe, river, waterfall, and county that existed before the city	Wichita Falls	54%
The founders wifes, maiden name	Beaumont	46%
Early settler who donated the land the city is now on	McAllen	46%
Abundance of Pear trees in the area	Pearland	46%
Sitting Attorney General at the time	Garland	42%
The founders, wife's favorite author	Irving	42%
Captain of the Republic of Texas Army	Denton	40%
Its long, impressive views	Longview	40%
Large sugar plantation the town was built on	Sugar Land	40%
Assistant GM of the railroad who owned the land	Killeen	37%
Large limestone rock in a nearby creek	Round Rock	37%
Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence	McKinney	35%
The nearby creek	Mesquite	35%
Railway that ran through the area	Frisco	33%
Expansive grasslands in the area	Grand Prairie	32%
The land owner was born in a city of the same name in Scotland	Edinburg	30%
Nature-filled alternative to Houston	The Woodlands	30%
The hopes it would attract settlers from the St. Louis area	Missouri City	28%
Tabbs Bay which the city sits on	Baytown	26%
La Lomita Mission the land came from	Mission	26%
The settlers previous city in Illinois	Carrollton	25%
Man who bought the land and renamed it after himself	Lewisville	25%
Stephen F. Austins' nephew	Bryan	23%
The 50 foot, 12 acre hill that was covered in Indian Paintbrushes	Flower Mound	23%
Maine native who became Secretary of State of the Republic of Texas	Allen	21%
Contractor who built the Houston and Central Texas Railroad	Richardson	19%
Chief Engineer of the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railway	Temple	19%
Man who acquired the land in 1893	League City	18%
Nearby development in which the city hoped to be annexed	North Richland Hills	12%
Sugarcane grower who purchased the land in 1909	Pharr	7%