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====New England====
In [[New England]], counties have served mainly as dividing lines for the states' judicial systems. [[Connecticut]] (since 1960) and [[Rhode Island]] havehas 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]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIII/TitleII/Chapter231/Section82|title=MGL c. 231, s. 82|access-date= 15 July 2013}}</ref> and [[Maine]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/33/title33sec701.html|title=Title 33, §701: Office in shire town|work=mainelegislature.org}}</ref> county government consists only of a [[Superior Court]] and [[Sheriffs in the United States|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, Vermont|Manchester]], and the Sheriff for the county and court for "South Shire" are in the shire town Bennington.{{cn|date=August 2023}}
In 2024, [[Connecticut]], which had not defined their counties for anything but statistical, historical and weather warning purposes since 1960, along with ending the use county seats in particular, will fully transition with the permission of the [[United States Census Bureau]] to transition to a system of [[Councils of governments in Connecticut|councils of government]] for the purposes of boundary definition and as county equivalents.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Proposed Change to County Equivalents in Connecticut|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/reference/ct_county_equiv_change.pdf|website=US Census Bureau}}</ref>
====Virginia====
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