How to Use county seat in a Sentence

county seat

noun
  • Phoenix is both the county seat and the state capital.
    — Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Hayneville, the county seat, is about 25 miles west of Montgomery.
    — al, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Last week, said party had wandered to the county seat where the extract of old rye is kept and to be had.
    — Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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, Great Falls, is seeing its worst case numbers yet.
    — New York Times, 16 Oct. 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
  • Over the same stretch, the county seat of Easton grew by more than 40%.
    — Scott Dance, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2022
  • Laredo, a city of more than 260,000, is the county seat.
    — Doug Myers, CBS News, 26 May 2026
  • 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
  • The city is more than 200 miles from the county seat, San Bernardino.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2021
  • But folks in the county seat of Nephi and surrounding areas have come around to solar.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Union County, with Marysville as its county seat, ranked 162.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Plan to linger awhile in Susanville, the county seat of Lassen County.
    — Jeanine Barone, WSJ, 10 June 2021
  • There the county seat is Versailles, and the second oldest town is Napoleon.
    — Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 22 May 2018
  • The town is Anson’s county seat and is about 60 miles east of Charlotte.
    — Desiree Mathurin april 16, Charlotte Observer, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Birmingham, the county seat, is the most-populous city in the state and the most vote-rich turf for Democrats.
    — Jonathan Allen, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The county seat is the city of San Jose, where the average home price tops $1 million.
    — Adam Andrzejewski, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Plymouth is the county seat of Marshall County.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • After a game of politico musical chairs, the ballot for open county seats has been finalized.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The county seat and largest city is Ladysmith which has around 3,400 people.
    — Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Firefighters and three air ambulances rushed to the overnight trailer park in the town of Ukiah, the county seat.
    — USA Today, 19 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 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
  • Driving the long, empty roads that lead to the county seat, Mentone, an outsider might wonder what all the fighting is for.
    — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
  • 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

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