How to Use county seat in a Sentence

county seat

noun

• 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

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024