Talk:County seat

message: What places have a seat that is not in some sort of town or city? –radiojon 02:53, 2004 Jun 29 (UTC)
:Well, that depends on whether you consider "town" or "city" to refer to incorporated municipalities or rather colloquially as roughly synonymous with an urbanized area. If the later, then yes, county seats are always in some sort of named urban area, but not necessarily in an incorporated municipality. There are places in the U.S. where the county seat is in a place that is not incorporated and thus is not formally recognized as a city, town or village. older≠wiser 03:02, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  2004 

message: Much of the article discusses the variations on county government in the United States.  County government organization is a different topic from county seats, and county government organization in the United States is still more different from county seats in general.  Therefore, I believe that much of this article could be moved to County (United States). 69.140.80.231 01:54, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: How much of this information belongs in this article?

message: The article currently includes the following:
:"Uniquely, because it was formerly part of the District of Columbia, Arlington County, Virginia, has no county seat - because it has no muncipalities within its boundaries. Prior to their retrocession to Virginia during the nineteenth century, Arlington and the neighboring independent city of Arlington were, respectively, Arlington County and Alexandria County - two of the three counties of the District of Columbia. The District as currently drawn was coextensive with the County of Washington, which disappeared in the twentieth century following the amalgamation of Tenley, Anacostia and the other rural and semi-rural towns and villages of Washington County, D.C., to the City of Washington."
The first sentence is wrong.  Many counties have no incorporated municipalities and thus have their county seats in unincorporated areas; Baltimore County, Maryland, is an example.  It has nothing to do with the fact that Arlington County used to be part of D.C.; Baltimore County obviously never was.  The rest of the paragraph, besides containing further inaccuracies, does not concern county seats, but instead concerns subject matter that is much better handled in other articles.  Therefore, I'm going to take out the entire paragraph.  Thanks.  Doctor Whom 01:07, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Arlington County, Virginia

message: The second sentence makes no sense:
"In the U.S., New England states (excluding Connecticut and Rhode Island, since they don't have any county governments), and in Canada, the Maritime Provinces, use the term "shire town", although only Vermont uses it officially."
Does anyone know what this is supposed to say? -- Mwalcoff 02:59, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone mistakenly trying to be helpful inserted a comma after U.S. -- the U.S. is supposed to modify New England, not be a part of a series. Similarly, what had been "the Canadian Maritime Provinces" was changed to "in Canada, the Maritime Provinces,". I think it began as an observation that some places in New England use the term "shire town" instead of "county seat". Then at some point the Canadian Maritime Provinces were included and Connecticut and RI were excluded from the New England group and the usage in Vermont specifically identified as "official". Even as it was written before the mistaken transformation into a false comma series, the sentence was pretty densely packed and without any citations for any of it. older ≠ wiser 03:25, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Generally the city that is the state capital is also the county seat.  That ill-constructed sentence is trying to say that Mason, Michigan, is anomalous in the fact that it is the seat of Ingham county, as opposed to Lansing. --JD79 (talk) 15:41, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Garbled sentences 

message: Some of the states' lists are missing. I just finished creating List of New York county seats, I'll work on the other ones as well. 
Update:I am adding a to do list for this page, mainly for my own use, as I add the missing pages. J. Finkelstein 17:44, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like everybody filled up those redlinks, nice. J. Finkelstein 19:10, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing Lists 

message: Should mention that during much of the 19th-century in the U.S., county sizes and the locations of county seats were ideally chosen so that outlying farmers could hitch up the horses in the morning, ride into the county seat and attend to business there, and arrive back at the farm the same evening. AnonMoos (talk) 06:44, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Rationale

message: This page is a mess. It's impossible to follow. It should be organized like the Town page-- geographically by country, then by state within the US.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.76.135.22 (talk) 07:22, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reorganization 

message: I found that Philadelphia was absent from existing mentions of consolidated government. I updated the page to add a reference before viewing this talk page. I agree that organizational details ought to be moved off to another page, leaving behind only a quick mention that some counties have seats in cities with the same name (I believe this mention is already present). So my new update should be moved along with San Francisco, making the destination page more complete. Dtvjho (talk) 05:33, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Philadelphia County 

message: Campbell County is another county with 2 seats: Newport and Alexandria. I'm surprised this list includes Kenton County, but not Campbell County!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.215.86.250 (talk) 07:26, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Campbell County, Kentucky 

message: What is the significance of the Cities within multiple counties section in an article on county seats?  RJFJR (talk) 20:06, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Cities within multiple counties

message: Moved to talk of County Seat, how is this significant to understanding County seat? RJFJR (talk) 19:47, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: City-counties and independent cities

message: After movign the above two sections to talk, and some other cleanup, I'm removing the cleanup tag.  (If you put it back please indicate what further cleanup is needed.) RJFJR (talk) 19:52, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: Guilford County, as far as I know, only has one county seat: Greensboro.  Just because there is an auxiliary C.H. doesn't make it a county seat, as well.  Lots of counties have those. Kochamanita (talk) 03:55, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guilford County, NC 

message: How many states use Shire Town In the Northeast United States, the statutory term may be shire town,[1] but colloquially "county seat" is the term in use there. This statement seems to me to be incorrect. Nitpyck (talk) 04:09, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shire town 

message: The section on counties with "multiple" seats is poorly explained. On the one hand it says counties may have more than two but then says that none have more than two.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.119.205.88 (talk) 22:41, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: More than one seat?

message: A head librarian once told me that our county (Orange County, NY) was technically designated as having 2 seats, though not done in current practice. This was some years ago and I no longer remember the specific term he used that meant that. Do any of the editors here know? I don't see that term mentioned under the multiple county seat section, either. Thank you, Wordreader (talk) 07:23, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Term for county government with two seats? 

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