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San Saba is the county seat of San Saba County, located on U.S. Highway 190 about 87 miles northwest of Austin in Central Texas.

San Saba was settled in 1854 and named for its location on the San Saba River and for Sabbas the Sanctified, a sixth-century monk.

The river itself got its name in 1732, when Spanish governor Juan Antonio Bustillo y Ceballos arrived on the feast day of St. Sabbas and named it the Rio de San Saba de las Nueces.

San Saba proudly calls itself the "Pecan Capital of the World."

The local pecan industry traces back to Edmund E. Risien, an Englishman who moved to San Saba County in 1874 and devoted his life to improving native pecans, founding the West Texas Pecan Nursery at the junction of the San Saba and Colorado Rivers.

Risien's orchard land is now worked by the Millican family, six generations of whom have been in the pecan business.

A branch line of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway reached San Saba in 1911, reviving a town whose cotton-and-grain economy had sagged after 1900.

San Saba had a population of 3,117 at the 2020 census, living in 1,021 households with an average household size of about 2.5 people.

The whole city covers only about 1.8 square miles, all of it land.

Mill Pond Park in San Saba is home to the San Saba County Museum, housed in two century-old log cabins filled with early ranch and farm artifacts, and the San Saba River Nature Park offers trails along the river on East Wallace Street.