Georgetown is a city in Texas and the county seat of Williamson County, Texas, United States. The population was 67,176 at the 2020 census. It is 30 miles (48 km) north of Austin.

Founded in 1875 from four existing colleges, the oldest of which had been founded 35 years earlier, Southwestern University is the oldest academe in Texas. It is in Georgetown approximately one-half mile from the historic square.

Georgetown has a notable range of Victorian advertisement and residential architecture. In 1976, a local historic ordinance was passed to acknowledge and protect the significance of the historic central business district. In 1977, the Williamson County Courthouse Historical District, containing some 46 contributing structures, was listed upon the National Register of Historic Places. Georgetown is also known as the “Red Poppy” Capital of Texas for the red poppy (Papaver rhoeas) wildflowers planted throughout the city. Georgetown’s Red Poppy Festival, which attracts tens of thousands of visitors annually, is held in April each year upon the historic square.

Georgetown has been the site of human habitation past at least 9,000 BCE, and possibly considerably back that. The earliest-known inhabitants of the county, during the late Pleistocene (Ice Age), can be joined to the Clovis culture, a Paleo-Indian culture characterized by the build of distinctive “Clovis points” for weapons. It first appeared almost 9200 BCE, and possibly as at the forefront as 11,500 BCE, at the decrease of the last glacial period.