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county seat

administrative center for a county or civil parish in the United States
Class type of: seat, human settlement, administrative centre Q62049

Facts

3 properties
Country
United States[1]
Subclass of
seat, human settlement, administrative centre[2][3][4]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en parish capitals en borough seat en county seat en county site en parish seats en parish seat en shire town ar مقر المقاطعة ar مقعد المقاطعة cs okresní město de Shire Town de Borough Seat de Parish Seat el έδρα κομητείας es County seat es Shire town es Cabeza de condado es sede de condado es sede condal es Parish seat
🔖 Identifiers · 12
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh2019102378
American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID
afset004317
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300008416, 300008419
BabelNet ID
00023254n
Bing entity ID
e00f8953-f104-4217-633f-d34d406e3142
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains ID
ct.015
Freebase ID
/m/0dl67
J9U entity ID
987012402007905171
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
county-seats
KBpedia ID
CountySeat
Topic's main category
Category:County seats of the United States
Zhihu topic ID
19657846

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🔗 Connections
Examples 1920
Boston, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Houston, Honolulu, Seattle, Phoenix +1912 more
← Category combines topics 13
Category:County seats of the United States, Category:County seats in California, Category:County seats in Alabama, Category:County seats in Arizona, Category:County seats in Texas, Category:County seats in Ohio, Category:County seats in Oklahoma, Category:County seats in Wyoming +5 more
Subclass of 3
human settlement, administrative centre, seat
← Has characteristic 3
Topeka, Mobile, Geneva
← Category contains 2
Category:County seats in Arkansas, Category:County seats in Maryland
Country 1
United States
Topic's main category 1
Category:County seats of the United States
← Category's main topic 1
Category:County seats of the United States
← SNARC ID 1
Samuel Shute
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  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of Wikimedia project → concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies
    "Changed [nl] labels, descriptions, aliases and claims: Cleanup: remove self_stated_in refs; normalize text (Difool/WikidataCleanup)"
  2. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → United States
    Topic's main category → Category:County seats of the United States
    Subclass of → seat, human settlement, administrative centre
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987012402007905171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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