Question: A county seat war is what kind of phenomenon that happens near the Applachian Ohio region?

Context articles: Perry County Courthouse (Ohio)
Gray County War
Woodsdale, Kansas
Old Perry County Courthouse (Ohio)
County seat war
McIntosh County Seat War
Appalachian Ohio
Tucker County Seat War
Meeting of Waters
Mansfield, Ohio

The Perry County Courthouse is a historic government building in the village of New Lexington, Ohio, United States.
 Built near the end of the nineteenth century after the end of a county seat war, it is the fifth courthouse to serve the citizens of Perry County, and it has been named a historic site because of its imposing architecture.
The Gray County War was a county seat war in Gray County, Kansas, between 1887 and 1893.
Woodsdale is a ghost town in Stevens County, Kansas, United States.
 It was involved in a county seat war with Hugoton.
The Old Perry County Courthouse is a historic government building in the village of Somerset, Ohio, United States.
 Built in the 1820s as a courthouse, it is one of Ohio's oldest existing buildings constructed for that purpose, and it has seen the controversy of a county seat war.
 For much of its history, it has served as Somerset's village hall, and it is located within a federally designated historic district.
A county seat war is an American phenomenon that occurred mainly in the Old West as it was being settled, although similar incidents elsewhere, such as in southeastern Ohio, have also been recorded.
 As new towns sprang up and county lines were drawn, there was intense competition for the status and tax benefits bestowed by becoming a county seat.
 These "wars" often involved nothing more than lining up at the ballot box, but sometimes partisans for a particular town would resort to voter fraud, intimidation or violence.
The McIntosh County Seat War was a dispute in Oklahoma over the location of the McIntosh County seat that took place between 1907 and 1909.
 Following a pair of elections that resulted in the town of Checotah being designated as the new county seat, the people of Eufaula refused to hand over the county records.
 As a result, a group of heavily armed men from Chectotah attempted to seize the records, but were forced to surrender during the gunbattle that ensued.
 One year later, after another close election, Eufaula became the permanent county seat.
Appalachian Ohio is a bioregion and political unit in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio, characterized by the western foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and Appalachian Plateau.
 The Appalachian Regional Commission defines the region as consisting of thirty-two counties.
 This region roughly overlaps with the Appalachian mixed-mesophytic forests, which begin in southeast Ohio and southwest Pennsylvania and continue to north Georgia and Alabama.
 The mixed-mesophytic forest is found only in Central and Southern Appalachia and eastern/central China.
 It is one of the most biodiverse temperate forests in the world.
The Tucker County Seat War was a dispute between the towns of Parsons and St. George, in Tucker County, West Virginia, over which should be the county seat.
The Meeting of Waters (Portuguese: "Encontro das Águas" ) is the confluence between the dark (blackwater) Rio Negro and the pale sandy-colored (whitewater) Amazon River or Rio Solimões, as the upper section of the Amazon is known in Brazil upriver of this confluence.
 For 6 km the two rivers' waters run side by side without mixing.
 It is one of the main tourist attractions of Manaus, Brazil.
 The same also happens near Santarém, Pará with the Amazon and Tapajós rivers.
 This phenomenon occurs in other regions of the world with differing characters of rivers, the phenomenon is also seen in other locations in the Amazon region, as Iquitos, Peru.
Mansfield is a city in and the county seat of Richland County, Ohio, United States.
 Located midway between Columbus and Cleveland via Interstate 71, it is part of Northeast Ohio and North-central Ohio regions in the western foothills of the Allegheny Plateau, approximately 65 mi northeast of Columbus, 65 mi southwest of Cleveland and 91 mi southeast of Toledo.
 Richland County is part of the 18-county Northeast Ohio region.