Lincoln served as New Salem's postmaster and later as county surveyor, all the while reading voraciously.

When the Croats under Josip Jelačić attempted to return Međimurje, which was then part of Hungary, to Croatia, Andrássy placed himself at the head of the gentry of his county, and served with distinction at the battles of Pákozd and Schwechat, as Arthur Görgey's adjutant ( 1848 ).

He was active in the Presbyterian Church, taught Sunday school, and served on the county fair board.

County Donegal is served by both Donegal Airport, located at Carrickfinn in The Rosses in the west of the county, and by City of Derry Airport, located at Eglinton to the east.

Panlong apparently passed the provincial examinations, and Zhou Enlai later claimed that Panlong served as magistrate governing Huai ' an county.

The county is served by 5 school districts:

In every county where practicable a freedman served as one of the three registrars ...

Coroner, 3rd District Kenneth V. Lederhouse ( R ) Lederhouse is also the senior coroner, having served longest of the four county coroners.

Other villages across the county are served by one or more of these districts above in the district's zone area.

The act specified the " county town " be named " Cookeville " in honor of Richard F. Cooke, who served in the Tennessee Senate from 1851 – 1854, representing at various times Jackson, Fentress, Macon, Overton and White Counties.

Shortly after Marion County was formed the first known Sheriff, William Strifel, was appointed over the county, but the only known fact was that Sheriff Strifel only served for the remainder of that year.

The entire county of Alachua is served by the Alachua County School District, which has some 47 different institutions in the county.

The county was named for Andrew Jackson, who had served as Florida's first military governor for six months in 1821.

The county is served by the Washington County School District, which includes:

There is no commercial air transportation service in Cullman County, and this county is no longer served by intercity commercial buses.

Originally, the county seat was at Cahaba, which also served as the state capital for a brief period.

The county was formerly served by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, and the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad.

* The county is in Community College District 525 and is served by Joliet Junior College in Joliet.

Notable men who once held the position of County Sheriff were Johnny Behan, who served as the first sheriff of the new county, and who was one of the main characters during the events leading to and following the Gunfight at the O. K.

The first county sheriff was legendary gunman Commodore Perry Owens, who had previously served as the sheriff of Apache County.

* The Fairfield County Court Houses in Bridgeport and Danbury which served the county's judicial needs and housed county deputy sheriff's until December 2000.

The geographic area of the county is served by the three separate judicial districts: Danbury, Stamford-Norwalk, and Fairfield.

The geographic area of the county is served by the three separate judicial districts: Ansonia-Milford, Waterbury, and New Haven.

* McCracken County Public Schools, which serves the entire county except for the bulk of the city of Paducah, served by:

The city serves as the county seat of Boone County and as the location of the University of Missouri.

County towns are usually the location of administrative or judicial functions, or established over time as the de facto main town of a county.

Travel on the island involves use of an extensive county road system, or city infrastructure depending on location, all of which act as feeders to the two state highways State Route 525 and State Route 20.

The most populous and prosperous urban center in this new county was George Town, but its location at the far southern edge rendered it worthless as a seat of local government.

Clark County's location in the Portland media market often results in the county voting differently on initiatives than the rest of the state.

Southwark was also the location of several prisons, including those of the Crown or ' Prerogative Courts ', the Marshalsea and King's Bench prisons, that of the local manors courts e. g. Borough Compter, The Clink, and the Surrey county gaol originally housed at the ' White Lion Inn ' ( also called informally the ' Borough Gaol ') and eventually at Horsemonger Lane Gaol.

* Sector, Devon, a location in the county of Devon in south-western England

As the seat of Montgomery County, the city is the location of county courts and the county commission.

By the 1860s the towns of Harmony, Knightsville, and Brazil were growing rapidly, due in part to their location along the National Road, and also because of the many coal companies in that section of the county.

An effort to move the county seat of government to a more central location, which had begun in the 1850s, grew stronger creating controversy among citizens.

Dorchester County uses the slogan, " The Heart of Chesapeake Country ," due to its geographical location and the heart-like shape of the county on a map.

Davis County was created on October 5, 1850, with Farmington designated as its county seat, because of its geographic location midway between boundaries at the Weber River on the north and the Jordan River on the south.

* Orange County, Florida-nearly borders Orange County, with the exact location of the county lines being about fifteen feet apart.

In 2005, a change in local laws enabled Fort Payne to become the only location in the county to allow the legal sale of alcohol.

The county is also the location of the Mount Harlan and San Benito American Viticultural Areas.

Due to its remote location in an isolated part of the county, it is seen less than many of the county's other covered bridges that are closer to the major populations centers such as Lancaster.

The following public-use airports are location in the county:

Because of its location along the U. S .- Mexico border, large numbers of illegal aliens entering the United States illegally pass through Yuma county.

The current county seat of Georgetown was settled upon on January 27, 1791 after residents in western Sussex County successfully petitioned the Delaware General Assembly to move the county seat to a central location as roads at the time made it too difficult to reach the county seat in Lewes.

Neither location is still located in Virginia and despite naming a county after him twice, Virginia no longer has a county named for the Marquis de la Fayette.

The northwestern corner of the county near the cities of Hopewell and Petersburg, and the location of Fort Lee is suburban, but the rest of the county is still very rural with most land devoted to agriculture and timber production.