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.

Traditionally this person rose through the ranks of the FA's committee structure ( e. g. by holding posts such the chairmanship of a county football association ).

Westchester County ranks number two ( number one being New York County ) for wealthiest counties in New York State and the seventh wealthiest county nationally.

He was made a county magistrate in 196, at the age of 14, and continued to rise through the ranks as his brother gave him more and more important tasks.

Wayne County ranks as the top apple producing county in New York.

The county seat of Oklahoma County, the city ranks 30th among United States cities in population.

The city ranks as the eighth-largest city in the United States by land area ( including consolidated city-counties ; it is the second-largest city in the United States by land area whose government is not consolidated with that of a county ).

While Scotland County is the smallest county in the state of North Carolina ( 100 out of 100 ), it ranks 63rd in generating tourism dollars.

The county has the highest mean elevation of any U. S. county outside of Colorado, even though it ranks only 22nd overall.

The per capita income for the county was $ 36, 370, which ranks as the thirteenth highest county in the country based on per capita income.

The county ranks seventh in land area.

Oldham County is the wealthiest county in Kentucky and 48th wealthiest county in the U. S. and ranks second highest in Kentucky for percent of college educated residences.

Only about 10 % of the county's land is in cultivated farms, and the county ranks 102nd of Kentucky's 120 counties in agricultural revenue.

As the most populous county in eastern Idaho, Bonneville County currently ranks fourth in the state, behind Ada, Canyon and Kootenai.

The population density was 34. 5 people per square mile ( 13. 3 / km² ), which ranks 21st in the county and 326th in the Commonwealth.

The population density was 316. 0 people per square mile ( 122. 0 / km² ), which ranks 4th in the county and 210th in the Commonwealth.

The population density was 71. 4 people per square mile ( 27. 6 / km² ), which ranks 16th in the county and 301st in the Commonwealth.

The population density was 35. 2 people per square mile ( 13. 6 / km² ), which ranks it 20th in the county and 325th in the Commonwealth.

The population density was 31. 7 people per square mile ( 12. 2 / km² ), which ranks 23rd in the county and 329th in the Commonwealth.

The population density was 38. 1 people per square mile ( 14. 7 / km² ), which ranks it 18th in the county and 312th in the Commonwealth.

The town is the ninth smallest of the 32 cities and towns in the county, and ranks 331st out of the 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts by population.

The town ranks 16th out of the 32 towns in Berkshire County, and 304th out of 351 in the Commonwealth by population. The population density was 84. 6 people per square mile ( 32. 7 / km² ), placing it 14th in the county and 293rd in the Commonwealth.