How to Use county seat in a Sentence

county seat

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  • The city is more than 200 miles from the county seat, San Bernardino.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2021
  • 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
  • In Lewistown, the county seat, finding people who knew some of the dead is easy.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Gainesville is about 60 miles northeast of Atlanta and the county seat of Hall County.
    — Hollie Silverman, CNN, 26 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Firefighters and three air ambulances rushed to the overnight trailer park in the town of Ukiah, the county seat.
    — USA Today, 19 Dec. 2021
  • The agency’s headquarters is located in the city, the county seat.
    — Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
  • In November, the group claimed a major victory after Graft won a seat on the school board in Granbury, the county seat.
    — Jeremy Schwartz, ProPublica, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Mayfield is a small town and county seat of Graves County, located in the southwest corner of the state.
    — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 13 Dec. 2021
  • In the antique town of Auburn, the county seat, old train trolley carts that hauled gold-veined rock through the mines now decorate street corners.
    — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Havre is the county seat of Hill County, Montana, and has a population of about 9,300.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
  • More than 1,000 people marched through the county seat of Bradenton, many traveling from elsewhere in the state.
    — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Lava could move toward the county seat of Hilo, but that could take about a week, Hon said at a news conference.
    — Caleb Jones, ajc, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Two of the three biggest clinics in our county are located here in Clinton—it’s the county seat.
    — Monica Potts, The Atlantic, 21 July 2021
  • When Bisbee became the county seat in 1929, all county offices were moved there.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 23 July 2021
  • Carrollton, the county seat of Carroll County, was jolted by news of the hiring on Monday, though views in the city were mixed.
    — Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • As the county seat, the old courthouse, built in 1879, is the centerpiece of a busy square lined with small, local, eclectic businesses.
    — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The incident occurred at the jail in the county seat of Guntersville, about 30 miles southeast of Huntsville, about 11 a.m. Saturday.
    — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 3 May 2021
  • There are falling down old hotels, beached boats, and towns like Tomales, once a seaport and a rival of San Rafael to become the county seat.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Sep. 2021

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