Step 2: Click on '3. Trial Courts'
Step 3: Click on '3.1 Trial Courts'
Step 4: Click on '3.1b Geographic Jurisdiction'
Step 5: Scroll through the list of states and look for 'County' level jurisdictions, OR select the state you are interested in researching:
Steps 2-5:
NOTE: Keep in mind that some states will be listed with multiple county-level courts (e.g. Delaware), and some states will not be listed with any county-level courts (e.g. North Carolina).
However, just because a state is not listed with a ‘Geographic Jurisdiction’ of ‘County’ does not mean that there are no county-level courthouses operating within the state.
North Carolina, for example, has a unified Judicial Branch, in which several counties may be grouped together to form a single Judicial District (http://www.nccourts.org/County/Default.asp). Each county within North Carolina has a courthouse that should be collected.
Even though the North Carolina courthouses are listed as ‘District’ courts serving a ‘District/Circuit’ jurisdiction, each county has a courthouse that operates at the county level.
NOTE: For states with multiple county-level courts, additional research will be required to identify the one that best suits the ‘County Courthouse’ definition outlined in our Structures List.
After doing some additional research on the Delaware Courts website, we learn that there is a courthouse located in each of Delaware’s three counties:
New Castle County Courthouse (which is now the Leonard L. Williams Justice Center)