county seat
the seat of government of a county.
Origin of county seat
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How to use county seat in a sentence
The average resident of Hidalgo County, Texas—county seat, McAllen—counted $3,200 in such income.
Why Legacy Wealth Is an Easy Target to Fund Infrastructure | Philip Elliott | August 20, 2021 | TimeHe hires local help, buys local whenever he can and he refurbished a vacant building into a company “visitors center” on Main Street in the county seat of Shelby, population 3,000.
The lone doctor at his clinic in Marion, the county seat, Lee watched his two nurse practitioners leave during the pandemic in search of less grueling work.
Mass vaccinations against covid-19 will be ‘mind-blowing’ challenge for Alabama, other poor, rural states | Isaac Stanley-Becker | November 29, 2020 | Washington PostStatewide, Hillary Clinton captured her highest percentage of votes in Monongalia County, where Morgantown is the county seat, with 40 percent.
West Virginia voters bustle to the polls on the first day of in-person early voting | Derek Hawkins, Molly Born | October 21, 2020 | Washington PostThe agent called the sheriff's office at White Lodge, the adjoining county seat.
Mystery Ranch | Arthur Chapman
And an escort of State Troopers were en route to take him over to the real clink at the county seat.
Got a important bankin' matter over to the county seat, Mr. Spackles, and I was wonderin' if I could figger on your help?
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington KellandTwo days later Scattergood appeared in the lobby of the Mansion House, in the county seat.
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington KellandHale put young Dave on a horse and the little shotgun cavalcade quietly moved away toward the county-seat.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | John Fox, Jr.
British Dictionary definitions for county seat
mainly US another term for county town
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