{ "culture": "en-US", "name": "Indiana_County_Seats_2023", "guid": "A56CB596-6C1D-46C2-8FBA-76846F622D5C", "catalogPath": "", "snippet": "This dataset contains point features representing the location of the primary county government administrative offices for each county seat in Indiana. This data was exported from a subset of features representing all city/town halls in Indiana (https://gisdata.in.gov/portal/home/item.html?id=4bc9c57e433241e59475e208cf4c1a9d#data) and the points were manually moved based on contact information provided on each county government's website. For many smaller counties, these points are on top of the courthouse, but primary county office building locations were used when possible.", "description": "A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish. The city, town, or populated place that houses county government is known as the seat of its respective 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 the county, especially if it is geographically large.