Question: Fords Branch, Kentucky is located in a county with what county seat?
Context: This is a list of the one hundred and twenty counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky.  Despite ranking 37th in size by area, Kentucky has 120 counties; depending on definitions, this is either third or fourth among U.S. states.  Texas has 254 counties and Georgia 159; Virginia has only 95 counties, but also has 38 independent cities that are not part of any county and deal directly with the state government, giving that state 133 county-level administrative units.  The original motivation for having so many counties was to ensure that residents in the days of poor roads and horseback travel could make a round trip from their home to the county seat and back in a single day, as well as being able to travel from one county seat to the next in the same fashion.  Later, however, politics began to play a part, with citizens who disagreed with the present county government simply petitioning the state to create a new county.  The 1891 Kentucky Constitution placed stricter limits on county creation, stipulating that a new county: Jasper County Community Unit School District 1 is a unified school district based in Jasper County's county seat of Newton, Illinois; it is the only school district in the county and is, consequently, the main educational body in all of Jasper County, although it serves portions of Effingham County and Cumberland County as well.  This school district is composed of six schools in total; four elementary schools, one junior high school, and one high school.  There is also a prekindergarten program run at the high school of the district should parents wish to enroll their children early.  Willow Hill Elementary School, which is located in the village of its namesake, serves only kindergarteners; its proximity to the county seat and central position in the county allows its students to dawn from all parts of the county and still have easy access to the elementary school they will attend.  The principal of Willow Hill is Dave Parker.  Grove Elementary School is located in Island Grove, Illinois, the highest point of elevation in the county.  Grove Elementary School educates students from kindergarten to grade six, and it runs a prekindergarten program as well.  Craig Carr is the principal of this school.  Ste. Marie Elementary School is located in the southern Jasper County village of Ste. Marie, and serves students in grades one through six.  The principal of Ste. Marie is David Parker, the principal of Willow Hill Elementary School.  Newton Elementary School is located in the county seat of Newton, and serves most of west Jasper County's first through sixth graders under principal Travis Wyatt.  The latter three elementary schools feed into Jasper County Junior High School and are taught in the facility during seventh and eighth grade while being supervised by Newton Elementary School principal Travis Wyatt before graduating into Newton Community High School.  Students in grades nine through twelve spend their last leg of precollegiate education at this school; their principal is Ruth Kerner.  The district superintendent is Ron Alburtus, and the district's mascot is the eagle. Pike County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky.  As of the 2010 census, the population was 65,024.  Its county seat is Pikeville.  The county was founded in 1821. The Old Allamakee County Courthouse, located on 2nd Street in Lansing, is a short-lived former county courthouse of Allamakee County, Iowa.  The courthouse was completed in 1861 amid a fight between Lansing and Waukon over which community deserved to be the county seat.  Lansing had lost a vote on the county seat to Waukon in 1859, but they won another vote in 1861 after teaming up with the community of Columbus.  Waukon built its own courthouse in the meantime, but it failed to win back the county seat in yet another vote in 1864.  The county sheriff, a Waukon resident, attempted to seize the county's records from the Lansing courthouse in 1866; however, a posse from Lansing stopped him before he could return to Waukon.  The Iowa Supreme Court decided the county seat battle in favor of Waukon the following year; it has remained there since. Beckham County, Kentucky was a county formed by the Kentucky General Assembly on February 9, 1904.  Beckham County was created in the northeastern part of the state from parts of Carter County, Kentucky, Lewis County, Kentucky and Elliott County, Kentucky.  The county seat was Olive Hill, Kentucky.  Beckham County was dissolved by the Kentucky Court of Appeals on April 29, 1904. Estill County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky.  As of the 2010 census, the population was 14,672.  Its county seat is Irvine The county was formed in 1808 and named for Captain James Estill, a Kentucky militia officer who was killed in the Battle of Little Mountain during the American Revolutionary War.  Estill County is a moist county meaning that the county seat, the city of Irvine, allows the sale of alcohol after the October 9, 2013 vote, but not the rest of Estill County outside the Irvine city limits. The Gardnerville Branch Jail is a historic jail located at 1440 Courthouse St. in Gardnerville, Nevada.  The jail was built in 1910 and served as Douglas County's only jail from 1910 to 1915.  Prior to 1910, the only county jail was in Genoa, the county seat; however, since Gardnerville was several miles from Genoa, it resorted to housing prisoners in the local judge's granary.  As the granary was considered unfit for holding prisoners, the community petitioned the county to construct a new jail.  However, local leaders in Minden, who wanted to move the county seat to their town, protested the move, as they suspected that Gardnerville was attempting to claim the county seat itself.  Nonetheless, the county approved the construction of the new jail.  The jail housed its first prisoners before construction even finished, as the Genoa jail burned down; one prisoner was briefly chained to a post until the new jail could accommodate him.  Once completed, the jail served the county until 1915, when Minden became the county seat and opened its own county jail. Ellicott City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place, along with being the county seat of local government in Howard County, Maryland, United States.  It is part of the Baltimore Metropolitan Area.  The population was 65,834 at the 2010 census.  Founded in 1772, the town contains the B. & O. Railroad Museum's branch at the Ellicott City Station, built in 1830 as the first terminus of the initial line.  The downtown historic district is located in the valley of the small Tiber River, with its east end abutting the Patapsco River, which forms the Baltimore County line.  As of the 2000 census, Ellicott City surpassed Towson (county seat of neighboring Baltimore County) for the first time, as the largest unincorporated county seat in the country. Fort Bend was a blockhouse built in a large bend of the Brazos River in what is now Fort Bend County, Texas, to provide protection against Indian raids.  It was erected in November 1822 by several members of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred, including William W. Little, Joseph Polley, William Smithers[Smeathers], Charles Beard, Henry Holster and is described as a "little log shanty."  The location was reportedly selected by Austin, and a settlement soon grew up around the post.  As the site provided one of the more favorable fords of the Brazos River, it became important during the Texas Revolution.  The Fort Bend crossing was briefly defended in April 1836 by a rear guard detachment led by Wiley Martin.  After Martin was maneuvered out of the position Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna transported a portion of his Mexican army across the Brazos at the crossing.  After Santa Anna's defeat at the battle of San Jacinto the site was used briefly by the Texas army.  Troops under Thomas Jefferson Green, who were in pursuit of retreating Mexican forces led by Gen. Vicente Filisola, halted for a short time in mid-May 1836 at Fort Bend.  Because Fort Bend had been the center of activity in the area its name was given to the county when it was established in 1837.  The next year nearby Richmond, Texas was selected as the county seat and soon absorbed the smaller Fort Bend settlement.  In 1936 the Texas Centennial Commission erected a monument to commemorate Fort Bend's role in the Texas Revolution. Fords Branch is an unincorporated community located in Pike County, Kentucky, United States.  It was settled by Joseph Ford and his family just following the American Revolutionary War.  Ford was a lieutenant in the North Carolina militia; his descendants still live there.  Captain William Ford served during the Civil War and named Fords Branch for his wife, Malinda McGee Ford.  The original name of Malinda Ford's Branch was shortened when the US Post Office was established in January 1903.
Answer: Pikeville