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26-1336: [REDACTED] Look up hardin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hardin may refer to: Places in the United States [ edit ] Hardin, Illinois , in Calhoun County Hardin County, Illinois Hardin, Iowa , in Clayton County Hardin County, Iowa Hardin, Kentucky , in Marshall County Hardin County, Kentucky Hardin, Missouri Hardin, Montana Hardin City, Nevada Hardin, Ohio , in Shelby County Hardin County, Ohio Hardin County Airport Hardin County, Tennessee Hardin, Texas , in Liberty County Hardin County, Texas Places in Lebanon [ edit ] Hardine ,

52-526: 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

78-410: 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

104-616: A household in the village was $ 55,938, and the median income for a family was $ 78,846. Males had a median income of $ 37,917 versus $ 27,450 for females. The per capita income for the village was $ 24,596. About 15.1% of families and 20.3% of the population were below the poverty line , including 24.0% of those under age 18 and 7.1% of those age 65 or over. Hardin was first known as Terry's Landing, after its first settler, Dr. William Terry, according to John Lammy's American Centennial celebration speech in Hardin on July 4, 1876. Benjamin F. Childs bought

130-1213: A village in Batroun District, North Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon Other uses [ edit ] Hardin (surname) , including a list of people with the name Salvor Hardin, a fictional character in the Foundation series created by Isaac Asimov Hardin, a fictional character in the Fire Emblem franchise Hardin Scott, one of the protagonists in the novel After Hardin College (disambiguation) See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Hardin All pages with titles containing Hardin Harden (disambiguation) Hardin Township (disambiguation) Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley, 1936–1959), American singer Hardin v. Boyd , an 1885 U.S. Supreme Court case Topics referred to by

156-471: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Hardin, Illinois Hardin is a village and county seat of Calhoun County , Illinois , United States . The population was 801 at the 2020 census, down from 967 at the 2010 census. Hardin is located at 39°9′30″N 90°37′6″W  /  39.15833°N 90.61833°W  / 39.15833; -90.61833 (39.158271, −90.618239). According to

182-409: 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

208-512: The 2021 census gazetteer files, Hardin has a total area of 2.30 square miles (5.96 km ), of which 2.13 square miles (5.52 km ) (or 92.44%) is land and 0.17 square miles (0.44 km ) (or 7.56%) is water. As of the 2020 census there were 801 people, 263 households, and 192 families residing in the village. The population density was 347.96 inhabitants per square mile (134.35/km ). There were 370 housing units at an average density of 160.73 per square mile (62.06/km ). The racial makeup of

234-879: 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

260-517: 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

286-418: 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

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312-420: 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

338-424: 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

364-572: 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

390-611: 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

416-607: The landing in 1835 and renamed it Childs' Landing. The village name was changed to Hardin when it became the county seat of Calhoun County in 1847. The new name honored John J. Hardin , a former congressman and a colonel in the First Regiment of Illinois Volunteers, who was killed earlier that year in the Mexican–American War . Hardin became the seat of Calhoun County after the county courthouse had burned down in Gilead . The seat

442-732: 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

468-752: 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

494-448: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Hardin . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hardin&oldid=1175767292 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

520-764: 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

546-416: 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

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572-607: 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 ,

598-546: The village was 95.01% White , 0.12% African American , 0.12% Native American , 0.50% Asian , 1.50% from other races , and 2.75% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.62% of the population. There were 263 households, out of which 25.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.88% were married couples living together, 5.32% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.00% were non-families. 25.86% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.41% had someone living alone who

624-444: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.47 and the average family size was 2.82. The village's age distribution consisted of 21.1% under the age of 18, 5.4% from 18 to 24, 16.5% from 25 to 44, 31% from 45 to 64, and 26.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 49.8 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.8 males. The median income for

650-623: 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

676-572: Was temporarily moved to Hamburg , but after an offer from Benjamin Childs of five acres of land and fifty thousand bricks for the new courthouse, as well as a free barbeque dinner, it was decided in a vote that the county seat would be moved in 1847. The school district is Calhoun Community Unit School District 40 . 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

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