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Anahuac is the county seat of Chambers County, Texas, on the northeast bank of Trinity Bay on the Texas Gulf Coast, and its name comes from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, meaning 'place beside the waters.'

Mexican general Manuel de Mier y Terán officially named the town Anahuac in January 1831, after the ancient Aztec capital, even though the area was never part of the Aztec Empire.

Fort Anahuac was the scene of the Anahuac Disturbances of 1832 and 1835, early confrontations between Texan settlers and Mexican authorities that preceded the Texas Revolution.

Anahuac won the county seat from Wallisville in an April 11, 1907, election, and after legal challenges failed, county records were ordered transferred to Anahuac in 1908.

Voters approved the incorporation of the city of Anahuac on October 30, 1948, and elected attorney Everett Cain as its first mayor on January 8, 1949.

The Texas Legislature designated Anahuac the 'Alligator Capital of Texas' in 1989, and the city hosts an annual alligator festival.

Anahuac had a population of 1,980 at the 2020 census, slightly down from 2,210 in 2000, within a total area of about 2.1 square miles, all land.

The Anahuac Independent School District was established in 1917 and covers the middle portion of Chambers County, including Double Bayou, Hankamer, Oak Island, Smith Point, and Wallisville.

The earliest inhabitants of the Anahuac area were Atakapan Indians, and French explorer Jean Baptiste de La Harpe visited a village of some 200 Atakapans near the future townsite in 1721.

A long-running dispute over ownership of the Anahuac townsite between General Thomas Jefferson Chambers and Charles Willcox, begun in 1838, was not fully resolved until after Chambers's assassination in 1865.