noun

• A number of places in the United States, including:
• A city, the county seat of White County, Georgia, named after General Benjamin Cleveland, grandson of Colonel Benjamin Cleveland.
• A small city in Mississippi and one of the two county seats of Bolivar County.
• A large city, the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
• A small city, the county seat of Bradley County, Tennessee.
• A former county in northeast England bordering North Yorkshire and County Durham, created in 1974 from parts of those two counties (mainly the County Borough of Teesside) and abolished in 1996.
• (countable) A surname.