A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish. The term is in use in five countries: Canada...
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County Seat was an American clothing retailer founded in 1973. With more than 740 stores at its peak, the chain closed in 1999 following Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
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new county's seat. Sierra Bonita County: proposed at the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature in 1885, with Willcox proposed as the county seat. The...
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County to the south and west, the county seat was moved to Georgetown. The county seat of St. Jones (renamed Kent County in 1681) is at Dover. After 2000...
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responsibilities as the counties within the state. It is an entity nearly surrounded by but separate from the County of Baltimore, which has its county seat in Towson...
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Massachusetts town having a county court and administration offices; a county can have multiple shire towns. County seat is the standard term used in...
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two of Florida's county seats are incorporated municipalities: the exceptions are Crawfordville, county seat of rural Wakulla County, and East Naples...
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58 counties. The state was first divided into 27 counties on February 18, 1850. These were further sub-divided to form sixteen additional counties by...
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functionally equivalent to counties. Also in Virginia, a county seat may be an independent city surrounded by, but not part of, the county of which it is the...
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The U.S. state of Alabama has 67 counties. Each county serves as the local level of government within its borders. The land enclosed by the present state...
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List of parishes in Louisiana (redirect from List of county seats in Louisiana)
Universe series Swamp Thing, the primary setting is Montrivelle Parish. The county seat of the parish is the also fictional city of Marais. In the 1972 movie...
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Pennsylvania counties by per capita income List of county seats in Pennsylvania (by population) List of Pennsylvania Municipalities and Counties with Home...
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1883 to Washoe county. Ormsby County, Nevada, one of the original nine counties formed in 1861. Consolidated in 1969 with the county seat, Carson City,...
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There are 88 counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. Nine of them existed at the time of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1802. A tenth county, Wayne, was...
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of 3833 and is the county seat of Broadwater County. The town was named for an official of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The county was named for Colonel...
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Carolina is divided into 100 counties. North Carolina ranks 28th in size by area, but has the seventh-highest number of counties in the country. Following...
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each county links to census data for that county. Each county has a county seat, often a populous or centrally located community, where the county's governmental...
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Boydton, Virginia (category County seats in Virginia)
in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, United States. The population was 302 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Mecklenburg County, and it is near...
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counties in Tennessee: James County, Tennessee (1870–1919): Now part of Hamilton County. The county seat was Ooltewah. Tennessee County, Tennessee (1788–1796):...
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There are 82 counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Mississippi is tied with Arkansas for the most counties with two county seats, at 10. Mississippi's...
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There are 36 counties in the U.S. State of Oregon. The Oregon Constitution does not explicitly provide for county seats; Article VI, covering the "Administrative...
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Information on the FIPS county code, county seat, year of establishment, origin, etymology, population, area and map of each county is included in the table below...
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jails, parks, and certain roads. The site of a county's administration and courts is called the county seat. New Jersey was governed by two groups of proprietors...
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census statistical areas List of Texas county seat name etymologies List of counties in Georgia "How Many Counties are in Your State?". Click and Learn...
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dissolved into Holt County "EPA County FIPS Code Listing". EPA.gov. Retrieved May 4, 2008. National Association of Counties. "NACo County Explorer". Retrieved...
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presidents, district attorneys, and all county and state supreme court judges. There are no official county seats, but the locations of borough halls and...
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A county seat war is an American phenomenon that occurred mainly in the Old West as it was being settled and county lines determined. Incidents elsewhere...
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There are 44 counties in the U.S. state of Idaho. The Idaho Territory was organized in March 1863, and Owyhee County was the first county in the territory...
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There are 75 counties in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Arkansas is tied with Mississippi for the most counties with two county seats, at 10. Created on...
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44XXX. The FIPS code for each county links to census data for that county. The county seat of Washington County (before county government was abolished) is...
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