Do some Mississippi Counties have Two County Seats?

[E-Man]

I was noticing on some maps it appears that the symbol for county
seats is used for two different cities in some counties in
Mississippi. Does anyone know for sure?

[Florence Henderson Had A Mullet]

Yes, some counties have 2 seats.

Kentucky has 2 counties like this, despite the fact that most newer maps
only show one seat in each.

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Technically the two areas administered by these two county seats are
called judicial districts. The county may have some services in
common, but there may be 2 courts, 2 tax collectors, 2 assessment
offices, etc

[H.B. Elkins]

It does? That's news to me....

Now, some counties have branch courthouses in areas outside the county
seat -- for instance, there's a branch office of the county clerk's
office at Belfry in Pike County, and the county seat is in Pikeville
-- but there is only one official coujnty seat.

And contrary to popular belief, Newport and Covington aren't county
seats. Alexandria and Burlington are the seats, IIRC.

The county in NE Arkansas (name escapes me) has two county seats shown
in the Rand McNally atlas -- Piggott (where US 49 ends) and another
town, which name also escapes me.
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[Florence Henderson Had A Mullet]

The county seats of Campbell County are Newport and Alexandria.

The county seats of Kenton County are Covington and Independence.

Both cities in both counties have a courthouse.

But Rand McNally Road Atlas marks only Alexandria and Independence as
the county seats, while World Almanac lists only Newport and Covington.

This site gives more details:

http://www.campbellcountyky.org/history.html

[Stanley Cline]

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 03:32:23 GMT, hbel...@restrictorplates.mis.net
(H.B. Elkins) wrote:

>Now, some counties have branch courthouses in areas outside the county
>seat -- for instance, there's a branch office of the county clerk's
>office at Belfry in Pike County, and the county seat is in Pikeville
>-- but there is only one official coujnty seat.

That's not at all unusual, especially in very urban counties or
counties that cover a very large physical area (like San Bernardino
County, CA.)

>The county in NE Arkansas (name escapes me) has two county seats shown
>in the Rand McNally atlas -- Piggott (where US 49 ends) and another
>town, which name also escapes me.

Clay County, AR...the other county seat is Corning.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~arclay/clayhist.htm

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[william lynch]

in article c5lcl0lsluamp0ovu...@4ax.com, Stanley Cline at
sc1-...@roamer1.org wrote on 9/25/04 10:40 PM:

> On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 03:32:23 GMT, hbel...@restrictorplates.mis.net
> (H.B. Elkins) wrote:
>
>> Now, some counties have branch courthouses in areas outside the county
>> seat -- for instance, there's a branch office of the county clerk's
>> office at Belfry in Pike County, and the county seat is in Pikeville
>> -- but there is only one official coujnty seat.
>
> That's not at all unusual, especially in very urban counties or
> counties that cover a very large physical area (like San Bernardino
> County, CA.)

Actually branch courthouses are common in every county with a larger
population in California. Santa Clara County has branches of the
superior court in Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Los Gatos and Gilroy, in
addition to the main one in San Jose. Santa Cruz has a branch in
Watsonville, San Mateo has them in San Mateo and South San Francisco,
and Alameda has them in Fremont and Pleasanton.

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[Kenny McCormack]

In article <23cdc9c6-44a2-4f3d...@googlegroups.com>,

Found this list at: https://geology.com/county-map/mississippi.shtml
Looks like there are several counties with multiples.
Are there any other states that do?

Mississippi Counties and County Seats
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Adams County - Natchez
Alcorn County - Corinth
Amite County - Liberty
Attalla County - Kosciusko
Benton County - Ashland
Bolivar County - Rosedale and Cleveland
Calhoun County - Pittsboro
Carroll County - Vaiden and Carrollton
Chickasaw County - Houston and Okolona
Choctaw County - Ackerman
Claiborne County - Port Gibson
Clarke County - Quitman
Clay County - West Point
Coahoma County - Clarksdale
Copiah County - Hazlehurst
Covington County - Collins
DeSoto County - Hernando
Forrest County - Hattiesburg
Franklin County - Meadville
George County - Lucedale
Greene County - Leakesville
Grenada County - Grenada
Hancock County - Bay St. Louis
Harrison County - Gulfport
Hinds County - Raymond and Jackson
Holmes County - Lexington
Humphreys County - Belzoni
Issaquena County - Mayersville
Itawamba County - Fulton
Jackson County - Pascagoula
Jasper County - Bay Springs and Paulding
Jefferson County - Fayette
Jefferson Davis County - Prentiss
Jones County - Laurel and Ellisville
Kemper County - De Kalb
Lafayette County - Oxford
Lamar County - Purvis
Lauderdale County - Meridian
Lawrence County - Monticello
Leake County - Carthage
Lee County - Tupelo Leflore County - Greenwood
Lincoln County - Brookhaven
Lowndes County - Columbus
Madison County - Canton
Marion County - Columbia
Marshall County - Holly Springs
Monroe County - Aberdeen
Montgomery County - Winona
Neshoba County - Philadelphia
Newton County - Decatur
Noxubee County - Macon
Oktibbeha County - Starkville
Panola County - Batesville and Sardis
Pearl River County - Poplarville
Perry County - New Augusta
Pike County - Magnolia
Pontotoc County - Pontotoc
Prentiss County - Booneville
Quitman County - Marks
Rankin County - Brandon
Scott County - Forest
Sharkey County - Rolling Fork
Simpson County - Mendenhall
Smith County - Raleigh
Stone County - Wiggins
Sunflower County - Indianola
Tallahatchie County - Charleston and Sumner
Tate County - Senatobia
Tippah County - Ripley
Tishomingo County - Iuka
Tunica County - Tunica
Union County - New Albany
Walthall County - Tylertown
Warren County - Vicksburg
Washington County - Greenville
Wayne County - Waynesboro
Webster County - Walthall
Wilkinson County - Woodville
Winston County - Louisville
Yalobusha County - Coffeeville and Water Valley
Yazoo County - Yazoo City

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Arkansas also has 10 counties with dual seats, though the way the laws governing those counties are written only one of those 10 literally has two "county seats" thanks to special language in the state constitution:
* Sebastian County: Fort Smith, Greenwood

In the other 9, one is the legal "county seat" while the other is merely designated by law as the seat of its district; nonetheless they're both commonly known as, and are each de facto, county seats. The other 9, each with its legal county seat first followed by the seat of its other district, are as follows:
* Arkansas County: DeWitt, Stuttgart
* Carroll County: Berryville, Eureka Springs
* Clay County: Piggott, Corning
* Craighead County: Jonesboro, Lake City
* Franklin County: Ozark, Charleston
* Logan County: Paris, Booneville
* Mississippi County: Osceola, Blytheville
* Prairie County: Des Arc, DeValls Bluff
* Yell County: Danville, Dardanelle