• 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    both the county seat of Fairfax County and is completely surrounded by Fairfax County but the city is politically independent of the county. There are...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    S. state of Washington has 39 counties. The Provisional Government of Oregon established Vancouver and Lewis Counties in 1845 in unorganized Oregon Country...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    There are 114 counties and one independent city in the U.S. State of Missouri. Following the Louisiana Purchase and the admittance of Louisiana into the...
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    There are 92 counties in the U.S. state of Indiana. Each county serves as the local level of government within its borders. Although Indiana was organized...
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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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    county has a county seat, often referred to as a "shire town." In 1779, Vermont had two counties. The western side of the state was Bennington County...
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    Montrivelle Parish. The county seat of the parish is the also fictional city of Marais. List of United States counties and county equivalents "Parish Government...
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    dissolved into Holt County "EPA County FIPS Code Listing". EPA.gov. Retrieved 2008-05-04. National Association of Counties. "NACo County Explorer". Retrieved...
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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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    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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