Of course we have both Philadelphia and San Francisco that are coextensive with the county they both are in, but how many counties (or Parishes for those in La) have only one incorporated city that is not occupying the entire county.
I noticed that in GA, the state's largest county by land only has Waycross as its sole municipality. How many others are there?
Sonora is the only incorporated City in Tuolumne County in California. There are a ton of counties out west that have county seats that aren't even incorporated. Mariposa County comes to mind as not having any incorporated places with the county seat being Mariposa.
In Utah, Daggett and Morgan County only have one incorporated place, which is the county seat.
There are also counties like Nye County, Nevada that don't have any incorporated places at all. The county seat of Nye County is Tonopah, which is a CDP and an unincorporated town.
Quote from: US 89 on May 02, 2018, 12:07:42 AM
There are also counties like Nye County, Nevada that don't have any incorporated places at all. The county seat of Nye County is Tonopah, which is a CDP and an unincorporated town.
Esmeralda County is in the some boat with Goldfield not being incorporated.
http://articles.latimes.com/1990-10-30/news/mn-3650_1_city-and-sacramento-county
Sacramento City and Sacramento county back in the 1990's talked about forming a city/county consolidation similar to San Francisco but that got killed off at the ballot box.
Chowan County, NC has Edenton, Gates County has Gatesville, and Tyrrell County has Columbia. While they are incorporated with the status of "town", in North Carolina, there is no legal distinction between towns or cities here. For all intents and purposes, they're the same thing. I've only listed some, there's probably more counties here with this distinction.
For Michigan,
Alcona County
Alger County
Alpena County
Barry County
Benzie County
Cheboygan County
Chippewa County
Crawford County
Grand Traverse County
Isabella County
Jackson County
Manistee County
Mecosta County
Montmorency County
Oceana County
Otsego County
Schoolcraft County
Counties with no cities:
Antrim County
Baraga County
Kalkaska County
Keweenaw County
Lake County
Leelanau County
Luce County
Ontonagon County
Oscoda County
Roscommon County
A lot of these counties have villages but in Michigan a village is part of a township.
Alpine and Inyno counties in CA on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada and the CA-NV state line. Markleeville (Alpine) and Bishop (Inyo) are county seats. In between is Mono county, it has two cities: a county seat in Bridgeport and the town of Mammoth Lakes.
Quote from: Desert Man on May 02, 2018, 07:33:37 AM
Alpine and Inyno counties in CA on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada and the CA-NV state line. Markleeville (Alpine) and Bishop (Inyo) are county seats. In between is Mono county, it has two cities: a county seat in Bridgeport and the town of Mammoth Lakes.
Actually in Mono County the only incorporated place is Mammoth and not Bridgeport. Markleeville isn't incorporated either.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on May 02, 2018, 07:42:54 AM
Quote from: Desert Man on May 02, 2018, 07:33:37 AM
Alpine and Inyno counties in CA on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada and the CA-NV state line. Markleeville (Alpine) and Bishop (Inyo) are county seats. In between is Mono county, it has two cities: a county seat in Bridgeport and the town of Mammoth Lakes.
Actually in Mono County the only incorporated place is Mammoth and not Bridgeport. Markleeville isn't incorporated either.
Thanks for the heads up, is Bishop the county seat? My Thomas Bros. guide California shown me inaccurate depictions of Markleeville and Bridgeport. I think it's from 1990. The newer ones shown incorporated cities in yellow (shoulda checked online), sorry.
Quote from: Desert Man on May 02, 2018, 07:45:13 AM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on May 02, 2018, 07:42:54 AM
Quote from: Desert Man on May 02, 2018, 07:33:37 AM
Alpine and Inyno counties in CA on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada and the CA-NV state line. Markleeville (Alpine) and Bishop (Inyo) are county seats. In between is Mono county, it has two cities: a county seat in Bridgeport and the town of Mammoth Lakes.
Actually in Mono County the only incorporated place is Mammoth and not Bridgeport. Markleeville isn't incorporated either.
Thanks for the heads up, is Bishop the county seat? My Thomas Bros. guide California shown me inaccurate depictions of Markleeville and Bridgeport. I think it's from 1990. The newer ones shown incorporated cities in yellow (shoulda checked online), sorry.
Actually its Independence that is the seat and Bishop is the only city.
Barnstable, MA (City of Barnstable)
Dukes, MA has no city at all.
Franklin, MA (City of Greenfield)
Nantucket, MA has no city at all
Would have guessed Hampshire, too, but Easthampton is a city along with Northampton.
New York City encompasses five counties. :D
Broome, NY: Binghamton
Cayuga, NY: Auburn
Chemung, NY: Elmira
Chenango, NY: Norwich
Clinton, NY: Plattsburgh
Columbia, NY: Hudson
Cortland, NY: Cortland
Genesee, NY: Batavia
Herkimer, NY: Little Falls
Jefferson, NY: Watertown
Madison, NY: Oneida
Monroe, NY: Rochester
Montgomery, NY: Amsterdam
Onondaga, NY: Syracuse
Otsego, NY: Oneonta
Schenectady, NY: Schenectady
Seneca: Geneva (sort of cheating, since also in Ontario County)
Saint Lawrence, NY: Ogdensburg
Tompkins, NY: Ithaca
Ulster, NY: Kingston
Warren, NY: Glens Falls
No cities in Allegany, Delaware, Essex, Franklin, Greene, Hamilton, Lewis, Livingston, Orleans, Putnam, Rockland, Schoharie, Schuyler, Suffolk, Sullivan, Tioga, Washington, Wayne, Wyoming or Yates Counties.
(Someone else can check my work :D)
Quote from: Flint1979 on May 02, 2018, 01:40:08 AM
For Michigan,
Roscommon County
Really? I did not know this.
In Virginia, cities are independent of counties, so we have no counties with one city. We do have incorporated towns, which are part of the surrounding counties and are more or less the equivalent of what most other states would call a city. As far as I know, the following are the counties with one town (or no towns), with the town (if any) listed in parentheses:
Albemarle County (Scottsville)
Amelia County (none)
Amherst County (none)
Arlington County (none, but the county is more like a city anyway)
Bath County (none)
Bland County (none)
Buckingham County (Dillwyn)
Charles City County (none)
Chesterfield County (none)
Craig County (New Castle)
Culpeper County (Culpeper)
Cumberland County (Farmville)
Dinwiddie County (McKenney)
Essex County (Tappahannock)
Floyd County (Floyd)
Gloucester County (none)
Goochland County (none)
Greene County (Stanardsville)
Greensville County (Jarratt)
Hanover County (Ashland)
Henrico County (none, although it's a pretty urbanized area near Richmond)
Henry County (Ridgeway)
Highland County (Monterey)
James City County (none)
King and Queen County (none)
King George County (none)
King William County (West Point)
Madison County (Madison)
Mathews County (none)
Middlesex County (Urbanna)
Nelson County (none)
New Kent County (none)
Northumberland County (Kilmarnock)
Patrick County (Stuart)
Powhatan County (none)
Prince George County (none)
Richmond County (Warsaw)
Roanoke County (Vinton)
Spotsylvania County (none)
Stafford County (none)
Warren County (Front Royal)
York County (none)
Some of these counties have their county seats in the towns; others have them in unincorporated places (York County's is in unincorporated Yorktown, for example). It's also not unusual for a county seat to be located in an adjacent independent city rather than in a town that's part of the county–for example, the Albemarle County seat is in the independent city of Charlottesville, which is surrounded by Albemarle County. Sometimes a county with no towns will be adjacent to one or more independent cities, such as Arlington County, which is adjacent to the Cities of Alexandria and Falls Church (as well as Fairfax County).
Minnesota:
Cook (Grand Marais)
Quote from: Rothman on May 02, 2018, 08:53:57 AM
(Someone else can check my work :D)
I don't see any errors, but I wonder if we are misinterpreting the spirit of the thread. It seems like the OP wants single cities that comprise an entire county... or at least cities that are the sole incorporated entity in their respective county.
The problem is that
everything in New York is incorporated. As a general rule, it's kind of hard to apply what the OP is asking for to the Northeast.
I think OP is excluding city-counties like Denver, SF, and St. Louis.
Indiana has two levels of incorporated places--cities and towns. Going strictly by the use of the word city, the majority of counties have exactly one:
Bartholomew (Columbus)
Boone (Lebanon)
Cass (Logansport)
Clay (Brazil)
Clinton (Frankfort)
Decatur (Greensburg)
Delaware (Muncie)
Fayette (Connersville)
Floyd (New Albany)
Franklin (Batesville)
Fulton (Rochester)
Henry (New Castle)
Howard (Kokomo)
Huntington (Huntington)
Jackson (Seymour)
Jasper (Rensselaer)
Jefferson (Madison)
Kosciusko (Warsaw)
Marshall (Plymouth)
Martin (Loogootee)
Peru (Miami)
Monroe (Bloomington)
Crawfordsville (Montgomery)
Morgan (Martinsville)
Ohio (Rising Sun)
Pike (Petersburg)
Posey (Mount Vernon)
Putnam (Greencastle)
Ripley (Batesville)
Rush (Rushville)
Shelby (Shelbyville)
Spencer (Rockport)
Starke (Knox)
Steuben (Angola)
Sullivan (Sullivan)
Vanderburgh (Evansville)
Vermillion (Clinton)
Vigo (Terre Haute)
Wabash (Wabash)
Warrick (Boonville)
Washington (Salem)
Wayne (Richmond)
Wells (Bluffton)
White (Monticello)
Whitley (Columbia City)
Quote from: webny99 on May 02, 2018, 09:36:45 AM
I don't see any errors, but I wonder if we are misinterpreting the spirit of the thread. It seems like the OP wants single cities that comprise an entire county... or at least cities that are the sole incorporated entity in their respective county.
Right–although I don't think the OP is necessarily for the former (city encompasses the entire county) but rather the latter (city is the only incorporated municipality in the county).
Pennsylvania is one of those states where all territory is incorporated in some form (city, borough, or township), so Philadelphia is the only example where a county contains only one incorporated municipality.
Now if we adhere strictly to the word "city" , there are many examples, many of them being the county seat and the center of business and cultural activity in their respective counties: Harrisburg in Dauphin County, Lancaster in Lancaster County, Williamsport in Lycoming County, and many others. But each of those counties is packed with other incorporated boroughs and townships, and I don't think they're quite what the OP had in mind.
Quote from: briantroutman on May 02, 2018, 10:13:00 AM
Right–although I don't think the OP is necessarily for the former (city encompasses the entire county) but rather the latter (city is the only incorporated municipality in the county).
....
The bolded interpretation is surely correct:
Quote from: roadman65 on May 02, 2018, 12:00:08 AM
Of course we have both Philadelphia and San Francisco that are coextensive with the county they both are in, but how many counties (or Parishes for those in La) have only one incorporated city that is not occupying the entire county.
....
Obviously in my reply above I placed more significance on the word "incorporated" than on the word "city" because of the specific way Virginia local government law works, but I think my response reflects the OP's clear intent.
Of the 102 counties in Illinois, not a single one lacks a municipality, and all of them have at least two or more municipalities.
I'm far too lazy to check this for the entire state of Georgia, but I can think of two within metro Atlanta: Dawson County contains only Dawsonville, and Rockdale County houses only Conyers.
A bunch in Kentucky. I'd wager that most of the state's rural counties only have one incorporated city.
In my area -- Lee, Wolfe, Menifee, Morgan, Magoffin, Breathitt, Owsley, Clay, Elliott and Leslie are on the list.
Quote from: inkyatari on May 02, 2018, 08:56:04 AM
Quote from: Flint1979 on May 02, 2018, 01:40:08 AM
For Michigan,
Roscommon County
Really? I did not know this.
Roscommon is a village it's in Higgins Township.
Houghton Lake, Prudenville and St. Helen's are all Census-designated places.
Higgins Lake is an unincorporated community.
In Wisconsin Florence and Menomonie Counties have no incorporated cites or villages. Not sure which ones only have one.
Texas mostly has relatively small counties compared with other large states, so there are a lot of them. The list of counties with one city is long. I'll give a list of counties that qualify for the topic, but a subset: counties that have only one city that is not the county seat. (My theory is that in some cases the county seat is taken care of by the county government while a far-flung community feels ignored and incorporates so they can take care of themselves.)
Palo Pinto County contains most of the city of Mineral Wells, and the county seat is the unincorporated Palo Pinto (this is two counties west of Fort Worth's Tarrant County, so it isn't exclusively a far-west phenomenon.)
Hudspeth County: Dell City, county seat Sierra Blanca
Jeff Davis County: Valentine, county seat Fort Davis
Another interesting example, but outside the scope of this topic, is Bowie County, which has multiple incorporated cities while the county seat is an unincorporated place that no longer exists. The county seat is Boston, the location of which has been annexed into the city of New Boston. The only way to move a county seat is by election, and that hasn't been done. New Boston is the de facto county seat, with the new courthouse being well away from the former location of Boston. In my view, the courthouse should within the old town site unless an election changes the county seat, because I like for things to be technically correct, but it doesn't seem to bother anyone else.
For the "no cities" list, we have Loving, Terrell, Crockett, Kenedy, Jim Hogg, and King. An interesting example is Borden County, the seat of which is the unincorporated town of Gail. The county and county seat are named after Gail Borden, who invented condensed milk and and started the Borden dairy company. He lived in the region of Houston for most of his life and plotted the town sites of Houston and Galveston. The town and county named after him are in an area of the state he never went to.
Again, another interesting example outside the scope of this topic is Jones County, the seat of which is Anson. They're both named after Anson Jones, who was the last president of Texas. I'm not aware of any other first name - last name county and seat combinations.
Leaving out the nitpick between "city" "town" and "village", in West Virginia it used to be really easy to become an incorporated place so the state is flush with towns that are little more than a small collection of houses, often providing no services. None the less there are 7 counties with only one, in all cases the county seat.
Calhoun (Grantsville)
Clay (Clay)
Doddridge (West Union)
Pendleton (Franklin)
Summers (Hinton)
Upshur (Buckhannon)
Wirt (Elizabeth)
There has been talk about a Lexington, Kentucky style "urban-county" deal, most recently in Fairmont, but nothing ever comes of it.
Quote from: 1995hoo on May 02, 2018, 10:17:53 AM
Obviously in my reply above I placed more significance on the word "incorporated" than on the word "city" because of the specific way Virginia local government law works, but I think my response reflects the OP's clear intent.
My point was that in the Northeast, we cannot focus at all on "incorporated". We have to focus solely on "city", or we automatically have zero contenders. So, technically, there isn't any examples of what the OP is looking for north of Virginia.
That said, I'm sure its not a big deal if we overlook "incorporated" when discussing the Northeast :D
Quote from: webny99 on May 02, 2018, 12:53:22 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on May 02, 2018, 10:17:53 AM
Obviously in my reply above I placed more significance on the word "incorporated" than on the word "city" because of the specific way Virginia local government law works, but I think my response reflects the OP's clear intent.
My point was that in the Northeast, we cannot focus at all on "incorporated". We have to focus solely on "city", or we automatically have zero contenders. So, technically, there isn't any examples of what the OP is looking for north of Virginia.
That said, I'm sure its not a big deal if we overlook "incorporated" when discussing the Northeast :D
Which is why my point is that you have to look more to the substance than the precise terminology used!
Quote from: webny99 on May 02, 2018, 12:53:22 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on May 02, 2018, 10:17:53 AM
Obviously in my reply above I placed more significance on the word "incorporated" than on the word "city" because of the specific way Virginia local government law works, but I think my response reflects the OP's clear intent.
My point was that in the Northeast, we cannot focus at all on "incorporated". We have to focus solely on "city", or we automatically have zero contenders. So, technically, there isn't any examples of what the OP is looking for north of Virginia.
That said, I'm sure its not a big deal if we overlook "incorporated" when discussing the Northeast :D
However, in the rest of the country, such as here in the Midwest, incorporation does matter, and there are unincorporated areas (Hawai'i, for example, is 100% unincorporated - no municipalities). Even the differences between "city", "village", and "town" may vary from state to state. That's why I used the term "municipality" for my comment about Illinois. In Illinois, a city and an incorporated town are much the same (but different from a township which is unincorporated). The difference between a city and a village is merely governmental and has nothing to do with its relation to the county or township, nor its size. There are small cities of a few hundred and then there are villages such as Arlington Heights, Schaumburg, and Bolingbrook, all of which have a population greater than 70,000.
Quote from: SP Cook on May 02, 2018, 12:36:02 PM
Leaving out the nitpick between "city" "town" and "village", in West Virginia it used to be really easy to become an incorporated place so the state is flush with towns that are little more than a small collection of houses, often providing no services. None the less there are 7 counties with only one, in all cases the county seat.
Calhoun (Grantsville)
Clay (Clay)
Doddridge (West Union)
Pendleton (Franklin)
Summers (Hinton)
Upshur (Buckhannon)
Wirt (Elizabeth)
I find it interesting that some of the non-county seat towns in southwestern Virginia (Man, Oceana, Gilbert, etc.) are as big as or bigger than a lot of the county seat towns in Kentucky.
QuoteThere has been talk about a Lexington, Kentucky style "urban-county" deal, most recently in Fairmont, but nothing ever comes of it.
Interesting that you mention Lexington. AFAIK there was only one incorporated place in Fayette County when the city and county merged in the 1970s. When Louisville and Jefferson County merged a few years ago, several incorporated cities were not part of the merger.
Apparently, once upon a time, there was an unincorporated section of Washington, D.C.
Quote from: abefroman329 on May 02, 2018, 03:14:18 PM
Apparently, once upon a time, there was an unincorporated section of Washington, D.C.
Correct except that "Washington" was not always synonymous with the District of Columbia. The District used to include the City of Washington, the City of Georgetown, and the City of Alexandria, as well as Washington County and Alexandria County. Parts of the two counties were unincorporated. Georgetown and Alexandria pre-dated the District; Washington was created in 1802.
The City and County of Alexandria were famously retroceded to Virginia effective in 1847. Then in 1871 Congress consolidated Georgetown and Washington, plus the unincorporated areas of Washington County, into a single political entity under the umbrella of the District of Columbia, and then in 1895 Georgetown's streets were renamed to fit Washington's street grid, which was gradually expanding out to fill the District's borders (with one or two minor exceptions).
Quote from: 1995hoo on May 02, 2018, 04:32:18 PM
Quote from: abefroman329 on May 02, 2018, 03:14:18 PM
Apparently, once upon a time, there was an unincorporated section of Washington, D.C.
Correct except that "Washington" was not always synonymous with the District of Columbia. The District used to include the City of Washington, the City of Georgetown, and the City of Alexandria, as well as Washington County and Alexandria County. Parts of the two counties were unincorporated. Georgetown and Alexandria pre-dated the District; Washington was created in 1802.
The City and County of Alexandria were famously retroceded to Virginia effective in 1847. Then in 1871 Congress consolidated Georgetown and Washington, plus the unincorporated areas of Washington County, into a single political entity under the umbrella of the District of Columbia, and then in 1895 Georgetown's streets were renamed to fit Washington's street grid, which was gradually expanding out to fill the District's borders (with one or two minor exceptions).
Thanks, I was under the impression that there was a separate Washington County much more recently than that.
Quote from: wxfree on May 02, 2018, 12:12:06 PM
I'm not aware of any other first name - last name county and seat combinations.
The seat of Millard County, Utah is Fillmore. Named for Millard Fillmore, who was the president when the Utah Territory was created. Fillmore was actually the capital of the Utah Territory for the first six years, chosen because it was in a central location. The capital was moved to Salt Lake City in 1856, but the original territorial statehouse in Fillmore is still standing.
In Utah, cities and towns are both incorporated municipalities, and the only difference is that a city has more than 1000 people and a town has less. Those are distinct from townships (which are usually also CDPs), which are unincorporated communities that a county has granted some degree of self-rule to.
Quote from: US 89 on May 02, 2018, 04:55:44 PM
Quote from: wxfree on May 02, 2018, 12:12:06 PM
I'm not aware of any other first name - last name county and seat combinations.
The seat of Millard County, Utah is Fillmore. Named for Millard Fillmore, who was the president when the Utah Territory was created.
There is also Pike County, Georgia, county seat Zebulon. It isn't an answer to this thread's original question, though, as there are four other cities there.
My new home county, Baldwin County, Georgia, only has one incorporated city, Milledgeville, the State's former capital. :wave:
Quote from: 1995hoo on May 02, 2018, 09:02:25 AM
In Virginia, cities are independent of counties, so we have no counties with one city. We do have incorporated towns, which are part of the surrounding counties and are more or less the equivalent of what most other states would call a city. As far as I know, the following are the counties with one town (or no towns), with the town (if any) listed in parentheses:
Albemarle County (Scottsville)
Amelia County (none)
Amherst County (none)
Arlington County (none, but the county is more like a city anyway)
Bath County (none)
Bland County (none)
Buckingham County (Dillwyn)
Charles City County (none)
Chesterfield County (none)
Craig County (New Castle)
Culpeper County (Culpeper)
Cumberland County (Farmville)
Dinwiddie County (McKenney)
Essex County (Tappahannock)
Floyd County (Floyd)
Gloucester County (none)
Goochland County (none)
Greene County (Stanardsville)
Greensville County (Jarratt)
Hanover County (Ashland)
Henrico County (none, although it's a pretty urbanized area near Richmond)
Henry County (Ridgeway)
Highland County (Monterey)
James City County (none)
King and Queen County (none)
King George County (none)
King William County (West Point)
Madison County (Madison)
Mathews County (none)
Middlesex County (Urbanna)
Nelson County (none)
New Kent County (none)
Northumberland County (Kilmarnock)
Patrick County (Stuart)
Powhatan County (none)
Prince George County (none)
Richmond County (Warsaw)
Roanoke County (Vinton)
Spotsylvania County (none)
Stafford County (none)
Warren County (Front Royal)
York County (none)
Some of these counties have their county seats in the towns; others have them in unincorporated places (York County's is in unincorporated Yorktown, for example). It's also not unusual for a county seat to be located in an adjacent independent city rather than in a town that's part of the county–for example, the Albemarle County seat is in the independent city of Charlottesville, which is surrounded by Albemarle County. Sometimes a county with no towns will be adjacent to one or more independent cities, such as Arlington County, which is adjacent to the Cities of Alexandria and Falls Church (as well as Fairfax County).
Amherst County has one (Amherst)
Rappahannock County has one (Washington)
Fluvanna has one or none depending on whether Scottsville extends into it or not. Columbia dissolved its town status recently.
Clarke County has one (Berryville)
Buchanan County has one (Grundy)
Bedford County has one (Bedford)
Northumberland actually has none (Kilmarnock is in Lancaster County)
Quote from: briantroutman on May 02, 2018, 10:13:00 AM
Quote from: webny99 on May 02, 2018, 09:36:45 AM
I don't see any errors, but I wonder if we are misinterpreting the spirit of the thread. It seems like the OP wants single cities that comprise an entire county... or at least cities that are the sole incorporated entity in their respective county.
Right–although I don't think the OP is necessarily for the former (city encompasses the entire county) but rather the latter (city is the only incorporated municipality in the county).
Pennsylvania is one of those states where all territory is incorporated in some form (city, borough, or township), so Philadelphia is the only example where a county contains only one incorporated municipality.
Now if we adhere strictly to the word "city" , there are many examples, many of them being the county seat and the center of business and cultural activity in their respective counties: Harrisburg in Dauphin County, Lancaster in Lancaster County, Williamsport in Lycoming County, and many others. But each of those counties is packed with other incorporated boroughs and townships, and I don't think they're quite what the OP had in mind.
I was really looking for one corporation that is in a county but not taking up all its land. Jacksonville, FL would not count, although I believe Neptune and Baldwin are considered incorporated cities even though Jacksonville is merged with the county they are in. I am looking for one county that has only one form of municipal government within its borders that is not coexstensive with the county or acting in place of the county government.
NYC's five counties have no county level government so its all municipal running the show except in the court system each borough has a county prosecuter. However, its just a county with only one municipality so to say it best.
So much for Borough Presidents.
Quote from: Rothman on May 03, 2018, 10:47:32 PM
So much for Borough Presidents.
They are still part of the great city of New York.
Quote from: Flint1979 on May 02, 2018, 01:40:08 AM
For Michigan,
Alcona County
Alger County
Alpena County
Barry County
Benzie County
Cheboygan County
Chippewa County
Crawford County
Grand Traverse County
Isabella County
Jackson County
Manistee County
Mecosta County
Montmorency County
Oceana County
Otsego County
Schoolcraft County
Counties with no cities:
Antrim County
Baraga County
Kalkaska County
Keweenaw County
Lake County
Leelanau County
Luce County
Ontonagon County
Oscoda County
Roscommon County
A lot of these counties have villages but in Michigan a village is part of a township.
Isabella doesn't count, as the City of Clare (based in Clare County) extends into Isabella County.
Quote from: roadman65 on May 03, 2018, 10:49:03 PM
Quote from: Rothman on May 03, 2018, 10:47:32 PM
So much for Borough Presidents.
They are still part of the great city of New York.
As county executives.
Quote from: D-Dey65 on May 03, 2018, 10:58:56 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on May 02, 2018, 09:02:25 AM
Greensville County (Jarratt)
Not Emporia?
Emporia is technically an independent city, although it also is the Greensville county seat, as it was before it became independent.
Quote from: Eth on May 02, 2018, 05:57:31 PM
Quote from: US 89 on May 02, 2018, 04:55:44 PM
Quote from: wxfree on May 02, 2018, 12:12:06 PM
I'm not aware of any other first name - last name county and seat combinations.
The seat of Millard County, Utah is Fillmore. Named for Millard Fillmore, who was the president when the Utah Territory was created.
There is also Pike County, Georgia, county seat Zebulon. It isn't an answer to this thread's original question, though, as there are four other cities there.
In Texas, Collin County and its county seat of McKinney are both named for Collin McKinney, who was an early settler.
My personal favorite city/county name association is Montezuma County, CO, seat Cortez. Hernan Cortez was the Spanish conquistador who took down Montezuma's Aztec Empire in the 1500s.
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on May 04, 2018, 04:16:03 AM
My personal favorite city/county name association is Montezuma County, CO, seat Cortez. Hernan Cortez was the Spanish conquistador who took down Montezuma's Aztec Empire in the 1500s.
There’s also an Aztec, NM right in that area, to add to that theme.
Quote from: Road Hog on May 04, 2018, 12:49:12 AM
Quote from: Eth on May 02, 2018, 05:57:31 PM
Quote from: US 89 on May 02, 2018, 04:55:44 PM
Quote from: wxfree on May 02, 2018, 12:12:06 PM
I'm not aware of any other first name - last name county and seat combinations.
The seat of Millard County, Utah is Fillmore. Named for Millard Fillmore, who was the president when the Utah Territory was created.
There is also Pike County, Georgia, county seat Zebulon. It isn't an answer to this thread's original question, though, as there are four other cities there.
In Texas, Collin County and its county seat of McKinney are both named for Collin McKinney, who was an early settler.
There's a "wide spot in the road" community called Zebulon in Pike County, Ky. I'm not sure that it appears anywhere but on a map; meaning, I don't think there are signs to mark the community.
Perry County, Ky., is named for Oliver Hazard Perry. The county seat is Hazard. However, Hazard is not the only incorporated place in Perry County, so it doesn't qualify for this thread.
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on May 04, 2018, 04:16:03 AM
My personal favorite city/county name association is Montezuma County, CO, seat Cortez. Hernan Cortez was the Spanish conquistador who took down Montezuma's Aztec Empire in the 1500s.
Gee, thanks. Now I have a certain Neil Young song playing in my head.