How to Use county seat in a Sentence

county seat

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  • Thousands of people poured into Fairmont, the county seat, by train; others arrived by horse and buggy.
    — John Reinan, Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
  • This is probably the old road to Champagnolle, the first county seat of Union County.
    — Richard Mason, Arkansas Online, 13 Dec. 2020
  • McConnellsburg, the county seat, was a mountain town with two gas stations; one where the town’s old men socialized and the other where teenagers hung out.
    — Hannah Dreier, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2020
  • The county seat was nearly shut down earlier this summer over a rumor that antifa was coming to burn down any home that has a U.S. flag out front.
    — Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2020
  • And as the county seat, Doylestown played host to their suburban Philadelphia iteration.
    — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Bel Air will not have its traditional Christmas parade, either, but people are still encouraged to visit the county seat.
    — David Anderson, baltimoresun.com, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Neighboring Stockton, the county seat and about 20 miles north of Tracy, provided support.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 2 June 2024
  • But while Trump easily won the county’s smaller communities, Hillary Clinton won Bend, its largest city and county seat.
    — Tim Gruver, Washington Examiner, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Which makes what happened in Graham, N.C., the county seat of Alamance, so troubling, journalists and free press advocates say.
    — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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