county seat

noun

: a town that is the seat of county administration

Examples of county seat in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web California Amid an overdose crisis, a California grant that helped syringe programs is drying up Feb. 19, 2023 The state is seeking a court order telling El Dorado County and the city of Placerville, its county seat, to stop enforcing their bans and allow syringe programs to resume. Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024 San Antonio is the county seat of Bexar County, and Riverside County is about 55 miles east of Los Angeles. Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024 Those night meetings — whether in small towns, county seats, Annapolis or Capitol Hill — weren’t especially well attended. Peter Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 30 Jan. 2024 In 1831, Jacob Housman, a wrecker who salvaged cargo from shipwrecks, settled in Indian Key and established it as the first county seat for Dade County. Emma Janssen, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024 Others may recognize it as the county seat in the midst of Shasta’s recreation mecca, a region splashed with lakes and more than 200 miles of hiking and biking trails. Janet Fullwood, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2024 Redding is the county seat of Shasta County, which has experienced a major political upheaval in recent years, driven in part by the anti-vaccine, anti-mask fervor that ignited during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Trump presidency. Angela Hart | Kff Health News, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023 Both are reasonably popular tourist spots, and both are current or former county seats for counties that share their names. Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2023 Overnight, a temperature of minus 37 degrees was recorded in two places in Wyoming, 4 miles north of Saratoga in the southern part of the state and 9 miles northeast of Thermopolis, the county seat for Hot Springs County in northwest Wyoming. Alex Sundby, CBS News, 17 Jan. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1803, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of county seat was in 1803

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“County seat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/county%20seat. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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county seat

noun
: a town that is the seat of county administration
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