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30-585: Senatobia is a city in and the county seat of Tate County, Mississippi , United States, and is the 16th largest municipality in the Memphis Metropolitan Area . The population was 8,165 at the 2010 census . Senatobia is home to Northwest Mississippi Community College , a state community college providing two-year academic and technical degree programs. Also located in Senatobia is the Baddour Center,

60-526: 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

90-410: 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

120-471: A female householder with no husband present, and 29.9% were non-families. 26.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.60 and the average family size was 3.15. In the city, the population was spread out, with 24.8% under the age of 18, 20.1% from 18 to 24, 26.0% from 25 to 44, 17.1% from 45 to 64, and 11.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age

150-487: A residential care facility for intellectually disabled adults. On April 13, 1834, early settler James Peters purchased two sections of land from the Chickasaw Nation for the sum of $ 1.25 per acre. This land was later developed as the town of Senatobia. The community took its name from Senatobia Creek . The Downtown Senatobia Historic District , the core of Senatobia's central business district developed in 1856 after

180-549: Is a public school district based in Senatobia, Mississippi , United States. As of July 2020 , the district's superintendent is Chris D. Fleming. It includes Senatobia and some unincorporated areas . There were a total of 1,834 students enrolled in the Senatobia Municipal School District during the 2013–2014 school year. The gender makeup of the district was 49% female and 51% male. The racial makeup of

210-409: 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

240-547: The census of 2010, there were 8,165 people, 2,554 households, and 1,826 families residing in the city, up from 6,682 people, 2,137 households, and 1,498 families recorded in the census of 2000. The population density was 621.7 inhabitants per square mile (240.0/km). There were 2,239 housing units at an average density of 208.3 per square mile (80.4/km). The racial makeup of the city was 61.1% non-Hispanic White , 35.0% non-Hispanic African American , 2.4% Hispanic or Latino of any race, and 1.6% in other racial/ethnic categories. In

270-599: The poverty line , including 21.3% of those under age 18 and 18.5% of those age 65 or over. All of Senatobia is within the Senatobia Municipal School District . There is a private school, Magnolia Heights School . The Client (1994) and The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) were partially filmed in Senatobia. 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

300-439: The 2000 census, the distribution had been 68.03% White , 30.51% African American , 0.12% Native American , 0.22% Asian , 0.15% Pacific Islander , 0.24% from other races , and 0.72% from two or more races, while Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.85% of the population. There were 2,137 households, out of which 38.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.4% were married couples living together, 19.4% had

330-935: 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

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360-455: The charges, saying "The goal was to allow all graduates to have the privilege of hearing their name called". After the ceremony, Foster contacted Zabron Davis, Chief of Police for Northwest Mississippi Community College, and filed disturbing the peace charges. Those charged were served with arrest warrants about two weeks later. An online petition calling for the charges to be dropped had received over 12,000 signatures by June 7. On June 8, 2015,

390-517: 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

420-468: The county seat in 1873 for the newly formed county. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 10.8 square miles (28 km), of which 10.8 square miles (28 km) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km) (0.28%) is water. As of the 2020 United States Census , there were 8,354 people, 2,470 households, and 1,639 families residing in the city. As of

450-418: 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

480-420: 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

510-634: The district was 46.78% African American, 49.95% White, 2.67% Hispanic, and 0.60% other. There were a total of 1,804 students enrolled in the Senatobia Municipal School District during the 2006–2007 school year. The gender makeup of the district was 49% female and 51% male. The racial makeup of the district was 40.91% African American, 57.43% White, 1.33% Hispanic, and 0.33% Asian. 43.1% of the district's students were eligible to receive free lunch. At Senatobia High School's May 21, 2015, graduation ceremony (held at Northwest Mississippi Community College ), audience members were asked to hold their applause until

540-576: The end of the ceremony. Four people cheered as their family member was awarded their diploma, and were subsequently escorted out of the ceremony. School officials then filed disturbing the peace charges against three of them (carrying a possible penalty of up to a $ 500 fine or 6 months in jail). One person could not be identified, and thus, wasn't charged. In interviews with WREG-TV , one of those accused, said she called out her daughter's name as she received her diploma, while another said he yelled "you did it baby". Former Superintendent Jay Foster defended

570-424: 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

600-572: 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

630-611: 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

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660-732: 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

690-606: The opening of the Tennessee and Mississippi Railroad . Two nearby settlements, Tatumsville and Tatesville were both abandoned, with those populations moving to Senatobia in favor of easier transportation. Senatobia received its charter as a municipality in 1860. During the Civil War , the town's business section was burned twice by Federal troops. Tate County was organized in 1873, during the Reconstruction era , with Senatobia becoming

720-752: 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

750-764: 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

780-416: 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

810-538: 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 ,

840-408: Was 29 years. For every 100 females, there were 89.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.4 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 33,698, and the median income for a family was $ 43,088. Males had a median income of $ 34,022 versus $ 22,000 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 16,434. About 13.0% of families and 17.7% of the population were below

870-407: 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. Senatobia Municipal School District The Senatobia Municipal School District

900-623: 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

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