St. Louis county under its present leadership also has largely closed its eyes to the need for governmental reform, and permitted parochial interests to take priority over area-wide interests.

Moreover, the entire state Democratic hierarchy, from Gov. Brown on down to the county chairmen, also participates in this huge operation.

Most counties also have maps available from the county engineer showing roads and other features and from the assessor's office showing ownerships of land.

Mr. Simpkins is a resident of Somerset county, and he and the Governor, also a Somerset countian, have been friends since Mr. Simpkins was a child.

In January 1864 Johnson organized a gathering of his state's Union loyalists, where resolutions were passed to elect county officials throughout the state, including a plan for a convention to dispose of the slavery issue ; also adopted was a very controversial and mandatory oath for voters, to protect and preserve the Union in the future.

When the new metropolitan counties ( Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Tyne & Wear, West Midlands, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire ) were created in 1974, their sub-divisions also became metropolitan boroughs ; in many cases these metropolitan boroughs recapitulated abolished county boroughs ( for example, Stockport ).

It was formerly the county town of Cornwall until the Crown Courts moved to Truro which is also the administrative centre ( before 1835 the county town was Launceston ).

The School also has one of the largest sixth forms in the county.

The New Towns Act of 1946 set up development corporations to construct new towns, while the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 instructed county councils to prepare development plans and also provided compulsory purchase powers.

It is also part of the Wells county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

It is also the county seat of Merrimack County.

Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, though a small portion of the city limits also extend into DuPage County.

Prior to 1969, Carson City was also the county seat of Ormsby County.

It is the seat of local government for Fermanagh District Council, and is also the county town of Fermanagh as well as its largest town.

The chalk that is the bedrock of much of the county provides an aquifer that feeds streams and is also exploited to provide water supplies for much of the county and beyond.

Originally, VECs were formed for each administrative county and county borough, and also in a number of larger towns.

The counties remain in use for some purposes, including the three-letter coding of vehicle number plates, the Royal Mail postcode address file ( which records counties in all addresses although they are no longer required for postcoded mail ) and Lord Lieutenancies ( for which the former county boroughs are also used ).

The GAA also uses the term " county " for some of its organisational units in Britain and further afield.

Lansing is the only U. S. state capital ( among the 47 located in counties ) that is not also a county seat.

He has also played county cricket in England, mainly for Lancashire ( 1999, 2001, 2005 and 2007 ) where he appeared in twenty-eight first-class games for the club.

The town was founded by merchant George W. Wright, who donated of land in February 1844, when the community was also designated the county seat.

Each county was also to have a sheriff, a coroner, justices of the peace, and constables to serve two-year terms.

Fermanagh District Council is the only one of the 26 district councils in Northern Ireland that contains all of the county it is named after.

The second, larger inventory is the Regional Inventory ( RI ), which is broken down by county and contains both those pubs listed in the NI and other pubs that are not eligible for the NI, due to reasons such as having been overly modified, but are still considered historically important, or have particular architectural value.

The more visited eastern part of the park is managed by Narok County Council and the western part, known as the Mara Triangle, by the Trans-Mara county council, which is contracting management to the Mara Conservancy, a local nonprofit organization formed by the local Maasai that contains several anti-poaching units.

Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in one single county, Clark County, which contains the Las Vegas – Paradise metropolitan area, where the state's three largest incorporated cities are located.

Exceptions include the nation's smallest county, Arlington County, Virginia, which contains no municipalities.

And the county contains approximately of forest and woodland area or 10. 5 % of Corks land area which is decently higher than the national average of 9 %.

The county contains all of five parliamentary constituencies:

The western part of the county contains a portion of the steep Allegheny Front, which marks the transition to the higher-elevation Appalachian Plateau and Allegheny Mountain region.

This county contains the following seven incorporated municipalities:

Although the Bridger National Forest and the Teton National Forest have been administratively combined into the Bridger-Teton National Forest, it is important to note that the county contains portions of both original forests.

The county contains part of the Catskill Mountains.

The county contains several mountain ranges of which the Magdalena Mountains, the San Mateo Mountains and Ladron Peak are classified as sky islands.

Among counties whose population contains a non-Hispanic white majority, it is the poorest by per-capita income and second to another county in the same Kentucky region, Owsley County, by median household income.

In some places, the courthouse also contains the main administrative office for the county government, or when a new courthouse is constructed, the former one will often be used for other local government offices.

This county contains the following incorporated municipalities:

The county contains the town of Kilkenny, located at the center of the county, and the towns of Ballyragget and Castlecomer to the north of the county and Graiguenamanagh, Mooncoin, Callan and Thomastown to the south.

The county is located at and has an area of which contains a population of 87, 558.

The northern part of the county contains part of the Uinta Mountains.

The western side of the county is the most populated and contains numerous small communities residing in an agricultural valley that roughly parallels the Manti National Forest to the west.

This county contains the following incorporated municipalities:

This county contains the following incorporated municipalities:

This county contains the following incorporated municipalities:

The county also contains Claude Kelly State Park.