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38-644: Camdenton is a city in and the county seat of Camden County, Missouri , United States. Its population was 3,718 at the 2010 census . The city is enveloped by the Lower Niangua arm of the Lake of the Ozarks , and serves as a popular trade point for visitors to the area. Camdenton, the new county seat, had its start in the 1930s, when construction of the Lake of the Ozarks inundated the old county seat of Linn Creek. The city derives its name from Camden County. The name Camdenton

76-526: A Superior Court and Sheriff (as an officer of the court ), both located in a designated "shire town". Bennington County, Vermont has two shire towns; the court for "North Shire" is in the shire town Manchester , and the Sheriff for the county and court for "South Shire" are in the shire town Bennington. In 2024, Connecticut , which had not defined their counties for anything but statistical, historical and weather warning purposes since 1960, along with ending

114-410: A county seat may be an independent city surrounded by, but not part of, the county of which it is the administrative center; for example, Fairfax City is both the county seat of Fairfax County, Virginia and completely surrounded by Fairfax County, but the city is politically independent of the county. When the county seat is in the independent city, government offices such as the courthouse may be in

152-428: A female householder with no husband present, and 38.3% were not families. About 33.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 17.3% had someone living alone who was 65or older. The average household size was 2.35, and the average family size was 2.99. In the city, the age distribution was 27.6% under 18, 9.7% from 18 to 24, 28.4% from 25 to 44, 18.9% from 45 to 64, and 15.3% who were 65 or older. The median age

190-419: A local newspaper, reported that the town had 67 dwellings, 2 churches , a Masonic lodge , a court house, a high school, 2 hotels , 2 cafes , 2 barber shops, 2 garages, 4 general stores, an ice plant, a drugstore, a bank, a newspaper, an airport, a lumber yard, a jewelry store, an electric shop, an abstract and tile company, and nine other businesses. KCVO-FM is a noncommercial FM radio station whose frequency

228-540: Is 91.7 mHz. Its programming consists of Christian music and talk. It is the flagship station for Spirit FM , a network of stations in Missouri owned by Lake Area Educational Broadcasting Foundation. The Lake Sun is a semiweekly newspaper covering the Lake of the Ozarks, owned by Vernon Publishing. Camdenton R-III School District operates public elementary schools, Camdenton Middle School, and Camdenton High School. Camdenton

266-789: Is home to a FIRST Robotics Competition program named FIRST LASER. Camdenton has a public library , a branch of the Camden County Library District. Camdenton offers some Lake of the Ozarks accommodations, including boating and fishing year-round. Each June, the city serves as Time Station 32 in the Race Across America , the annual ultramarathon cross country 3,000-mile nonstop bicycle race starting in Oceanside, California , and ending in Annapolis, Maryland . The Camdenton Memorial Airport host an air show every September. Camdenton

304-409: Is known as the seat of its county. Generally, the county legislature, county courthouse, sheriff's department headquarters, hall of records, jail and correctional facility are located in the county seat, though some functions (such as highway maintenance, which usually requires a large garage for vehicles, along with asphalt and salt storage facilities) may also be located or conducted in other parts of

342-541: Is now KBMW-FM . Between April and August 2018, UNW briefly owned two secular stations, KDSN-AM - FM , in Denison, Iowa . UNW had acquired the stations in order to move KDSN-FM to another frequency and facilitate a signal upgrade for KNWI. Northwestern acquired KLBF near Bismarck, North Dakota , from the Educational Media Foundation in 2017; KLBF became a Faith station, making it the westernmost station in

380-498: Is served by U.S. Route 54 , which intersects Missouri Route 5 and 7 . Missouri Route 5 and 7 share a concurrency throughout the city. Camdenton has an airport named Camdenton Memorial Airport . Camdenton is located near two tourist attractions: Bridal Cave and Ha Ha Tonka State Park . County seat In Canada , the provinces of Ontario , Quebec , New Brunswick , Prince Edward Island , and Nova Scotia have counties as an administrative division of government below

418-512: The United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 5.48 square miles (14.19 km), all land. Camdenton is 1,043 feet (318 m) above sea level. As of the census of 2010, 3,718 people, 1,441 households, and 901 families were living in the city. The population density was 678.5 inhabitants per square mile (262.0/km). Th 1,591 housing units had an average density of 290.3/sq mi (112.1/km). The racial makeup of

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456-712: The University of Northwestern – St. Paul , an evangelical university in Roseville, Minnesota . Northwestern Media operates three radio networks serving listeners primarily in the Midwestern United States: the Life Network, a Christian adult contemporary music station; the Faith Network, with Christian talk and teaching programs; and Spirit FM, also playing Christian adult contemporary music. Northwestern Schools, as it

494-570: The Northwestern Media portfolio and one of its few markets without a Life station. EMF had previously donated WNWW , an AM radio station in Hartford, Connecticut , to the university in 2016. In 2018, Northwestern Media entered Omaha with its acquisition of KGBI-FM from Salem Media Group for $ 3.15 million. Northwestern Media made two major network acquisitions in 2019. The first came in July when

532-935: The United States, followed by Towson , the county seat of Baltimore County, Maryland . Likewise, some county seats may not be incorporated in their own right, but are located within incorporated municipalities. For example, Cape May Court House, New Jersey , though unincorporated, is a section of Middle Township , an incorporated municipality. In some states, often those that were among the original Thirteen Colonies , county seats include or formerly included "Court House" as part of their name, such as Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia . Most counties have only one county seat. However, some counties in Alabama , Arkansas , Georgia , Iowa , Kentucky , Massachusetts , Mississippi , Missouri , New Hampshire , New York , and Vermont have two or more county seats, usually located on opposite sides of

570-550: The city was 95.0% White, 0.3% African American, 0.4% Native American, 0.5% Asian, 1.4% from other races, and 2.3% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 3.7% of the population. Of the 1,441 households, 36.8% had children under 18 living with them, 39.9% were married couples living together, 18.2% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.4% had a male householder with no wife present, and 37.5% were not families. About 31.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.0% had someone living alone who

608-520: The city. The population density was 795.3 people/sq mi (307.4/km). The 1,283 housing units had an average density of 367.2/sq mi (141.9/km). The racial makeup of the city was 95.65% White, 0.18% African American, 0.90% Native American, 0.76% Asian, 0.14% Pacific Islander, 0.50% from other races, and 1.87% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latino of any race were 2.16% of the population. Of the 1,149 households, 34.2% had children under 18 living with them, 40.4% were married couples living together, 16.4% had

646-561: The college would buy an AM station there in 1997. In 1983, KDNI in Duluth, Minnesota came to air; it was joined by KDNW , a second frequency, in 1992. Des Moines, Iowa , became part of Northwestern Media's footprint when radio stations KJJC and KLRX were bought out of receivership and became KNWI and KNWM in 2004. KJNW FM in Kansas City was acquired in 2013 from Calvary Bible College . In 2010, citing years of low listener support and

684-517: The counties after his unification, there were about 1,000. Under the Eastern Han dynasty , the number of counties increased to above 1,000. About 1400 existed when the Sui dynasty abolished the commandery level (郡 jùn), which was the level just above counties, and demoted some commanderies to counties. In Imperial China, the county was a significant administrative unit because it marked the lowest level of

722-418: The county, especially if it is geographically large. A county seat is usually an incorporated municipality . The exceptions include the county seats of counties that have no incorporated municipalities within their borders, such as Arlington County, Virginia , where the county seat is the entire county. Ellicott City , the county seat of Howard County, Maryland , is the largest unincorporated county seat in

760-420: The county. Examples include Harrison County, Mississippi , which has both Biloxi and Gulfport as county seats, and Hinds County, Mississippi , which has both Raymond and the state capital of Jackson . The practice of multiple county seat towns dates from the days when travel was difficult. There have been few efforts to eliminate the two-seat arrangement, since a county seat is a source of civic pride for

798-557: The entire Refuge Radio network was donated to UNW. Refuge owned three full-power stations and 13 dependent translators in Minnesota, Iowa and South Dakota. The Refuge network was dismantled and almost all of its transmitters converted to repeat Life and Faith stations; former network key station WJRF in Duluth was taken silent (as Northwestern already had two stations there), the two other full-power stations began simulcasting Life stations, and

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836-543: The fact that it was subsidized by the rest of the network, Northwestern College closed WSMR in Sarasota, Florida , which it had built in 1996; the station was sold to the University of South Florida for $ 1.275 million and began broadcasting classical music. Between 2007 and 2012, Northwestern owned a third station, KFNL in the Fargo, North Dakota , area. The station was sold to a commercial broadcaster, Mediactive, LLC, in 2012 and

874-424: The imperial bureaucratic structure; in other words, it was the lowest level that the government reached. Government below the county level was often undertaken through informal non-bureaucratic means, varying between dynasties. The head of a county was the magistrate , who oversaw both the day-to-day operations of the county as well as civil and criminal cases. The current number of counties mostly resembled that of

912-572: The increase of Han Chinese population in Taiwan, the number of counties also grew by time. By the end of Qing era, there were 11 counties in Taiwan. Protestant missionaries in China first romanized the term as hien . When Taiwan became a Japanese colony in 1895, the hierarchy of divisions also incorporated into the Japanese system in the period when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. By September 1945, Taiwan

950-611: The independent city under an agreement, such as in Albemarle , or may in be enclaves of the county surrounded by the independent city, such as in Fairfax . Others, such as Prince William , have the courthouse in an enclave surrounded by the independent city and have the county government, the Board of Supervisors, in a different part of the county, far from the county seat. The following counties have their county seat in an independent city: Bedford

988-732: The later years of the Qing dynasty . Changes of location and names of counties in Chinese history have been a major field of research in Chinese historical geography, especially from the 1960s to the 1980s. There are 1,355 counties in Mainland China out of a total of 2,851 county-level divisions. In Taiwan , the first counties were first established in 1661 by the Kingdom of Tungning . The later ruler Qing empire inherited this type of administrative divisions. With

1026-752: The provincial level, and thus county seats. In the provinces of Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia the term "shire town" is used in place of county seat. County seats in China are the administrative centers of the counties in the People's Republic of China . Xian have existed since the Warring States period and were set up nationwide by the Qin dynasty . The number of counties in China proper gradually increased from dynasty to dynasty. As Qin Shi Huang reorganized

1064-953: The purchase in January 2022. It obtained new licenses for full-power non-commercial stations in Ashland, Wisconsin , and Grand Rapids, Minnesota , in 2022, and it also purchased a series of FM translators rebroadcasting KSLT from the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel that year. In a $ 1.25 million transaction, UNW filed to acquire the Lake Area Educational Broadcasting Foundation, whose Spirit FM and Elevate FM services are broadcast in various cities in Missouri, in March 2023. The purchase, including fifteen stations, eight translators, and six construction permits,

1102-718: The state's area, has no borough government or borough seat. One borough, the Lake and Peninsula Borough , has its borough seat located in another borough, namely King Salmon in Bristol Bay Borough . In Louisiana , which is divided into parishes rather than counties, county seats are referred to as "parish seats". In New England , counties have served mainly as dividing lines for the states' judicial systems. Rhode Island has no county level of government and thus no county seats, and Massachusetts has dissolved many but not all of its county governments. In Vermont , Massachusetts , and Maine county government consists only of

1140-416: The towns involved, along with providing employment opportunities. There are 33 counties with multiple county seats in 11 states: Alaska is divided into boroughs rather than counties; the county seat in these case is referred to as the "borough seat"; this includes six consolidated city-borough governments (one of which is styled as a "municipality"). The Unorganized Borough, Alaska , which covers 49% of

1178-877: The translators were spread around the Life and Faith networks. On August 6, 2019, the Illinois Bible Institute announced it would sell its New Life Radio Network ( WBGL / WCIC ), a two-network radio ministry primarily broadcasting in Illinois, to the University of Northwestern. UNW paid $ 9,901,558.34 to acquire its 13 full-power stations and eight translators. The acquisition brought UNW's number of broadcast licenses to 81 in 10 states. In 2021, Northwestern filed to purchase KLMP and KSLT in Rapid City, South Dakota and their repeaters from Bethesda Christian Broadcasting, closing on

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1216-538: The use of county seats in particular, will fully transition with the permission of the United States Census Bureau to a system of councils of government for the purposes of boundary definition and as county equivalents. Two counties in South Dakota , Oglala Lakota and Todd , have their county seat and government services centered in a neighboring county. Their county-level services are provided by Fall River County and Tripp County , respectively. In Virginia ,

1254-512: Was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.0 males. For every 100 females 18 and over, there were 80.7 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 26,649, and for a family was $ 29,342. Males had a median income of $ 25,156 versus $ 20,431 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 14,040. About 15.2% of families and 17.1% of the population were below the poverty line , including 21.8% of those under age 18 and 16.3% of those age 65 or over. In April 1932, The Reveille ,

1292-424: Was 65 or older. The average household size was 2.47, and the average family size was 3.07. The median age in the city was 32.3 years; 28.1% of residents were under 18; 10.2% were between 18 and 24; 26.2% were 25 to 44; 21.8% were 45 to 64; and 13.8% were 65 or older. The gender makeup of the city was 47.3% male and 52.7% female. As of the census of 2000, 2,779 people, 1,149 households, and 708 families resided in

1330-457: Was an independent city from 1968 to 2013, while also being the county seat of Bedford County . Bedford reverted to an incorporated town, and remains the county seat, though is now part of the county. The state with the most counties is Texas, with 254, and the state with the fewest counties is Delaware, with 3. Spirit FM (Missouri) Northwestern Media is the Christian radio ministry of

1368-534: Was chosen because there were no other cities with that name. A post office called Camdenton has been in operation since 1931. The city was platted in 1930 by Clint Webb and Jim Banner, on a 160-acre plot of land at the intersection of U.S. Route 54 and Missouri Route 5 . It was originally planned for a map of the streets to look like a wagon wheel. Camdenton is located at 38°0′32″N 92°44′47″W  /  38.00889°N 92.74639°W  / 38.00889; -92.74639 (38.008890, -92.746484). According to

1406-623: Was divided into 8 prefectures ( 州 and 廳 ), which remained after the Republic of China took over. There are 13 county seats in Taiwan, which function as county-administered cities , urban townships , or rural townships . In most of the United States , a county is an administrative or political subdivision of a state that consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority. The city, town, or populated place that houses county government

1444-1036: Was then known, entered the broadcasting business with the launch of KTIS-AM - FM in the Twin Cities on February 7, 1949. The construction of KTIS, costing $ 40,000, was entirely underwritten by the school's students. Its radio ministry soon expanded. On April 1, 1953, it bought KBOK in Waterloo, Iowa and changed its call letters to KNWS . Growth continued with the October 25, 1955, launch of Fargo's KFNW and its 1961 acquisition of KIHO in Sioux Falls , which became KNWC . Northwestern built FM stations in all three cities in 1965 (Fargo's KFNW-FM and Waterloo's KNWS-FM ) and 1969 ( KNWC-FM in Sioux Falls ). Northwestern acquired WRVB-FM in Madison, Wisconsin , in 1973, changing it to WNWC ;

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