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32-1142: Porter Township may refer to: Arkansas [ edit ] Porter Township, Crawford County, Arkansas , in Crawford County, Arkansas Indiana [ edit ] Porter Township, Porter County, Indiana Michigan [ edit ] Porter Township, Cass County, Michigan Porter Township, Midland County, Michigan Porter Township, Van Buren County, Michigan North Dakota [ edit ] Porter Township, Dickey County, North Dakota Ohio [ edit ] Porter Township, Delaware County, Ohio Porter Township, Scioto County, Ohio Pennsylvania [ edit ] Porter Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania Porter Township, Clinton County, Pennsylvania Porter Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania Porter Township, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania Porter Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania Porter Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania Porter Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

64-531: 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

96-410: 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

128-667: 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 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

160-479: A female householder with no husband present, and 23.10% were non-families. 20.00% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.20% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.68 and the average family size was 3.07. In the county, the population was spread out, with 28.20% under the age of 18, 8.40% from 18 to 24, 29.30% from 25 to 44, 22.80% from 45 to 64, and 11.30% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age

192-580: A large trucking corridor which is currently not served by an Interstate highway. The proposed highway would utilize portions of I-49 which currently runs north from Van Buren toward the Missouri state line passing through Benton County, home of Walmart . The corridor was listed as the number-one high-priority corridor by transportation officials in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act . As of

224-561: A result of the U.S. Civil War in the 1860s. The Cherokee Nation was subsequently relocated to the west in the present-day state of Oklahoma . The violent arrest of Randal Worcester by two Crawford County sheriff's deputies and one Mulberry police officer took place in Mulberry, Crawford County, in August 2022. Crawford County is a longtime Republican stronghold, so much so that not even former governor and native Arkansan Bill Clinton

256-581: 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 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

288-598: 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

320-499: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Crawford County, Arkansas Crawford County is a county located in the Ozarks region of the U.S. state of Arkansas . As of the 2020 census , the population was 60,133. The county seat and largest city is Van Buren . Crawford County was formed on October 18, 1820, from the former Lovely County and Indian Territory , and

352-441: Is located in the northwest region of Arkansas . According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 604 square miles (1,560 km ), of which 593 square miles (1,540 km ) is land and 11 square miles (28 km ) (1.8%) is water. Crawford County is included in an area designated for a planned extension of I-49 into Arkansas. The final project will connect New Orleans, Louisiana , to Kansas City, Missouri ,

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384-410: Is within one or more townships in an Arkansas county based on census maps and publications. The townships of Crawford County are listed below; listed in parentheses are the cities, towns, and/or census-designated places that are fully or partially inside the township. 35°34′N 94°15′W  /  35.567°N 94.250°W  / 35.567; -94.250 County seat In Canada ,

416-404: The 2020 United States census , there were 60,133 people, 23,958 households, and 17,082 families residing in the county. As of the 2000 census , there were 53,247 people, 19,702 households, and 15,150 families residing in the county. The population density was 35/km (91/sq mi). There were 21,315 housing units at an average density of 14/km (36/sq mi). The racial makeup of the county

448-752: 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 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

480-620: The St. Louis and San Francisco Railway , the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad , and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway . Today the county is home to the intersection of two major interstate highways, Interstate 40 (I-40) and I-49 . Crawford County is part of the Fort Smith metropolitan area . As a dry county , alcohol sales are generally prohibited, though recent changes to county law provide for exemptions. Crawford County

512-542: 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 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

544-522: 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 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

576-490: The poverty line , including 19.30% of those under age 18 and 13.70% of those age 65 or over. Thousands of self-claimed "Western Band of Cherokee" (or Arkansas Cherokees ) fought for state and federal recognition as a political entity of Native Americans . Crawford County (specifically, that area known as " Lovely's Purchase ") was historically part of the Cherokee Nation , which lost its tribal sovereignty status as

608-411: The provinces of Ontario , Quebec , New Brunswick , Prince Edward Island , and Nova Scotia have counties as an administrative division of government below 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

640-495: The county seat is the entire county. Ellicott City , the county seat of Howard County, Maryland , is the largest unincorporated county seat in 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,

672-491: 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 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

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704-420: 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

736-625: 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

768-474: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. 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=Porter_Township&oldid=897276835 " Categories : Place name disambiguation pages Township name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

800-777: 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

832-580: 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 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

864-416: 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

896-624: 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 ,

928-416: Was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.70 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.20 males. The median income for a household in the county was $ 32,871, and the median income for a family was $ 36,741. Males had a median income of $ 29,581 versus $ 20,352 for females. The per capita income for the county was $ 15,015. About 10.90% of families and 14.20% of the population were below

960-408: Was 92.19% White , 0.87% Black or African American , 2.01% Native American , 1.19% Asian , 0.02% Pacific Islander , 1.48% from other races , and 2.24% from two or more races. 3.27% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 19,702 households, out of which 37.50% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.20% were married couples living together, 10.90% had

992-705: Was able to carry it in either of his presidential victories. The last Democrat (as of 2024) to carry this county was Jimmy Carter in 1976. Townships in Arkansas are the divisions of a county. Each township includes unincorporated areas; some may have incorporated cities or towns within part of their boundaries. Arkansas townships have limited purposes in modern times. However, the United States census does list Arkansas population based on townships (sometimes referred to as "county subdivisions" or "minor civil divisions"). Townships are also of value for historical purposes in terms of genealogical research. Each town or city

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1024-782: Was named for William H. Crawford , the United States Secretary of War in 1815. Located largely within the Ozarks, the southern border of the county is the Arkansas River , placing the extreme southern edge of the county in the Arkansas River Valley . The frontier county became an early crossroads, beginning with a California Gold Rush and developing into the Butterfield Overland Mail , Civil War trails and railroads such as

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