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35-566: Montverde is a town in Lake County , Florida , United States. The population was 1,655 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Orlando–;Kissimmee–Sanford Metropolitan Statistical Area . Montverde was the location of a Native American settlement and burial ground. The earliest record of American settlement is from 1865, and initially named " West Lake Apopka ". The community got its Spanish -derived name " Monte Verde " by

70-531: 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

105-410: 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

140-549: A household in the county was $ 36,903, and the median income for a family was $ 42,577. Males had a median income of $ 31,475 versus $ 23,545 for females. The per capita income for the county was $ 20,199. About 6.90% of families and 9.60% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15.80% of those under age 18 and 6.30% of those age 65 or over. Lake County is represented by U.S. Senators Rick Scott and Marco Rubio , and U.S. Representatives Michael Waltz (R-FL6), Daniel Webster (R-FL11), and Scott Franklin (R-FL15). In

175-433: A settler from Vermont (which in turn also means "green mountain" and derives from French ) who remarked on its rolling green hills while arriving at the site by boat on Lake Apopka . The Town of Montverde was incorporated on May 18, 1925. The central feature of the town is Montverde Academy , a private preparatory school for primary and secondary students. The school was opened in 1912. The approximate coordinates for

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

245-507: Is on State Road 44 east of Eustis. LakeXpress is the public transportation agency that serves the Lake County, Florida area since 2007. 28°46′N 81°43′W  /  28.77°N 81.72°W  / 28.77; -81.72 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

280-517: The 2020 United States census , there were 1,655 people, 613 households, and 471 families residing in the town. As of the 2010 United States census , there were 1,463 people, 473 households, and 383 families residing in the town. At the 2000 census there were 882 people, 351 households, and 272 families living in the town. The population density was 561.5 inhabitants per square mile (216.8/km). There were 410 housing units at an average density of 261.0 per square mile (100.8/km). The racial makeup of

315-505: The 2020 census , the population was 383,956. Its county seat is Tavares , and its largest city is Clermont . Lake County is included in the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford Metropolitan Statistical Area . Lake County was created in 1887 from portions of Sumter and Orange counties . It was named for the many lakes contained within its borders (250 named lakes and 1,735 other bodies of water ). In

350-423: The U.S. Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 1,157 square miles (3,000 km ), of which 938 square miles (2,430 km ) is land and 219 square miles (570 km ) (18.9%) is water. Sugarloaf Mountain is the highest point in peninsular Florida, at 312 feet (95 m) above sea level. As of the 2020 United States census , there were 383,956 people, 137,446 households, and 94,332 families residing in

385-571: The 1800s, the two main industries in the area were growing cotton and breeding cattle. In the latter part of the 19th century, people started to grow citrus trees. Citrus was introduced by Melton Haynes . Throughout the 1940s and 50s, citrus production increased and grew into the area's leading industry. The December 1989 United States cold wave destroyed most of the citrus groves, dealing an economic blow from which many growers could not recover. Grove owners sold massive amounts of land to developers, resulting in increasing urban sprawl . According to

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420-539: The Florida Division of Elections. There are a number of public schools in the county . The following colleges are in the county: The Tavares Seaplane Base is a city-owned, public-use seaplane base on Lake Dora in Tavares. The Leesburg International Airport is a former Army Airfield and municipal airport along Lake Harris east of downtown Leesburg, Florida . Mid Florida Air Service Airport

455-952: The Florida Senate, Lake County is represented by Senators Dennis Baxley (R-FL12), and Kelli Stargel (R-FL22) . In the Florida House, Lake County is represented by Florida Representatives Keith Truenow (R-FL31), Anthony Sabatini (R-FL32), and Brett Hage (R-FL33). Lake County has five Constitutional Officers: Gary Cooney (Clerk of the Court and Comptroller), Peyton Grinnell (Sheriff), Cary Baker (Property Appraiser), David Jordan (Tax Collector), and Alan Hays (Supervisor of Elections), and five County Commissioners: Doug Shields (R-District 1), Sean Parks (R-District 2), Kirby Smith (R-District 3), Leslie Campione (R-District 4), and Josh Blake (R-District 5). The Florida Department of Corrections has Region III Correctional Facility Office on

490-505: The Town of Montverde has a total area of 1.9 square miles (4.9 km), of which 1.7 square miles (4.3 km) are land and 0.2 square miles (0.5 km), or 11.10%, are water. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild winters. According to the Köppen climate classification , the Town of Montverde has a humid subtropical climate zone ( Cfa ). As of

525-602: The Town of Montverde in Central Florida is located at 28°35′50″N 81°40′43″W  /  28.59722°N 81.67861°W  / 28.59722; -81.67861 . Montverde is located on the southwest shore of Lake Apopka . It is 18 miles (29 km) south of Tavares , the Lake county seat , and 24 miles (39 km) northwest of Orlando . According to the United States Census Bureau ,

560-947: 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

595-526: 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

630-418: 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

665-502: The county. As of the census of 2010, there were 297,047 people and 130,190 households residing in the county. The population density was 316.6 inhabitants per square mile (122.2/km ). There were 163,586 housing units at an average density of 174.3 per square mile (67.3/km ). The racial makeup of the county was 83.4% White (68.7% non-Hispanic White), 11.5% Black or African American , 0.6% Native American , 2.3% Asian , 0.2% Pacific Islander , and 2.1% from two or more races. 16.7% of

700-420: 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

735-774: The grounds of the Lake Correctional Institution in an unincorporated area in Lake County. The Lake County Library System was established in 1982 by Lake County Ordinance 1982-18 following the establishment of the Lake County Library Planning Advisory Board in 1975. Today it is governed by the Lake County Board of County Commissioners. The library system is made up of 6 branch libraries and 10 municipal libraries: Lake County has voted Republican in U.S. presidential races since 1948. Data comes from

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770-424: 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

805-585: 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

840-625: 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

875-758: 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

910-441: The population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 88,413 households, out of which 23.40% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.90% were married couples living together, 8.50% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.30% were non-families. 24.60% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.70% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size

945-775: 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

980-777: 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

1015-511: The town was 96.49% White, 1.59% African American, 0.23% Native American, 0.45% Asian, 0.11% from other races, and 1.13% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.61%. Of the 351 households in 2000, 27.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.4% were married couples living together, 8.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.5% were non-families. 19.7% of households were one person and 5.7% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size

1050-416: 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

1085-544: 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 ,

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1120-402: Was $ 46,813. Males had a median income of $ 35,774 versus $ 26,944 for females. The per capita income for the town was $ 20,504. About 4.5% of families and 5.3% of the population were below the poverty line , including 7.1% of those under age 18 and 12.0% of those age 65 or over. Lake County, Florida Lake County is a county in the central portion of the U.S. state of Florida. As of

1155-403: Was 2.34 and the average family size was 2.75. In the county, the population was spread out, with 20.30% under the age of 18, 5.80% from 18 to 24, 23.80% from 25 to 44, 23.80% from 45 to 64, and 26.40% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 45 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.70 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.10 males. The median income for

1190-410: Was 2.51 and the average family size was 2.89. The age distribution in 2000 was 22.3% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 29.9% from 25 to 44, 27.0% from 45 to 64, and 13.9% 65 or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.6 males. In 2000, the median household income was $ 45,341 and the median family income

1225-635: 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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