How to Use county seat in a Sentence

county seat

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  • Morris is a town of a little more than 5,000 people — the county seat, with generations of farmers.
    — Alice Short, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2024
  • How has Kendall and its county seat of Boerne done so well?
    — Bruce Selcraig, ExpressNews.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The city is more than 200 miles from the county seat, San Bernardino.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2021
  • Hayneville, the county seat, is about 25 miles west of Montgomery.
    — al, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Over the same stretch, the county seat of Easton grew by more than 40%.
    — Scott Dance, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2022
  • The city of Uvalde is bigger than the towns that surround it, and the county seat of Uvalde County.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2022
  • Plan to linger awhile in Susanville, the county seat of Lassen County.
    — Jeanine Barone, WSJ, 10 June 2021
  • The county seat, Sturgeon Bay is the door to the Door, with more of a city vibe than the county's other small towns.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 May 2021
  • The county seat is the city of San Jose, where the average home price tops $1 million.
    — Adam Andrzejewski, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Beaufort, the county seat, was once the site of a major refugee camp for freed people.
    — Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 15 July 2019
  • In Lewistown, the county seat, finding people who knew some of the dead is easy.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2022
  • This was the second straight day the group organized a picket in front of the courthouse in the county seat.
    — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 26 Oct. 2020
  • There the county seat is Versailles, and the second oldest town is Napoleon.
    — Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 22 May 2018
  • The county seat is more than 200 miles away and the state senator lives in the Central Valley.
    — Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2021
  • The prison feels a world apart from Huntingdon Borough, the sleepy county seat just a 20-minute walk away.
    — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 7 June 2018
  • Gainesville is about 60 miles northeast of Atlanta and the county seat of Hall County.
    — Hollie Silverman, CNN, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Of those, more than 5,069 of those cases are in Wayne County, for which Detroit is the county seat.
    — Breanna Edwards, Essence, 3 Apr. 2020
  • The county seat, Berryville, consists of a Main Street with two stoplights and a handful of restaurants and shops.
    — Caitlin L. Chandler, Washington Post, 23 May 2022
  • The county seat, Great Falls, is seeing its worst case numbers yet.
    — New York Times, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Union County, with Marysville as its county seat, ranked 162.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Part of his role was to draw county lines and choose county seats — the place where courts and law enforcement would be based.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Mayfield is in central Graves County and is the county seat.
    — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 13 Dec. 2021
  • At that time, the paper was known as the Idabel Signal, referring to the county seat.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • As the first year drew to a close, Westminster, the county seat, was a hive of activity.
    — Mary Ann Ashcraft, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 7 Dec. 2019
  • The county seat and largest city is Ladysmith which has around 3,400 people.
    — Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2021
  • But in Alturas, the county seat, many storefronts along Main Street have long been boarded up.
    — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The town was settled by Dutch farmers in the 19th century, as was Orange City, the county seat.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Aside from the county seat of Brackettville and a railroad ghost town, ranches cover most of the county’s plains.
    — Jolie McCullough, ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2022
  • One central and awfully wonky bit of plot is about which of two towns will become the county seat.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2019
  • She had been arrested while filming a nighttime traffic stop in this county seat of roughly 1,500 people and four traffic signals.
    — Robert Klemko, Washington Post, 3 July 2024

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