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Marion County, Illinois

Marion County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Salem
Year Organized: 1823
Square Miles: 572
Court House:

P.O. Box 637
County Courthouse
Salem, IL 62881-0637

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Gen. Francis Marion, known as the "Swamp Fox," distinguished soldier in the Carolinas during the American Revolution.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Marion County was created on January 24, 1823 (Laws, 1823, p. 49) and was formed from Fayette and Jefferson Counties. Present area, or parts of it, formerly included in: Jefferson County (1819–1823), Fayette County (1821–1823), Crawford County (1816–1821), Edwards County (1815–1819), Gallatin County (1812–1815), Madison County (1812–1815), Randolph County (1803–1813), St. Clair County (1790–1813) and Knox, Northwest Territory (1790–1801).

The County was named for Francis Marion, a soldier of the Revolution who distinguished himself as a partisan commander in the Carolinas. The County Seat is Salem (1823-Present).

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 576 square miles (1,491 kmē), of which, 572 square miles (1,482 kmē) of it is land and 3 square miles (9 kmē) of it (0.60%) is water.

The southwest corner of Marion County is the intersection of the Baseline with the Third Principal Meridian, the point of origin for the third survey of the Northwest Territory under the Land Ordinance of 1785. The origin is marked with a boulder south of Centralia just off U.S. 51.

Neighboring Counties:

  • North: Fayette County
  • Northeast: Clay County
  • Southeast: Wayne County
  • South: Jefferson County
  • Southwest: Washington County
  • West: Clinton County

Cities and Towns:

- Alma village Incorporated Area
- Carrigan township
- Central City village Incorporated Area
- Centralia city Incorporated Area
- Foster township
- Haines township
- Iuka village Incorporated Area
- Junction City village Incorporated Area
- Kell village Incorporated Area
- Kinmundy city Incorporated Area
- Meacham township
- Odin village Incorporated Area
- Omega township
- Patoka village Incorporated Area
- Pope township
- Raccoon township
- Romine township
- Salem (County Seat) city Incorporated Area
- Sandoval village Incorporated Area
- Stevenson township
- Tonti township
- Vernon village Incorporated Area
- Walnut Hill village Incorporated Area
- Wamac city Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."
 
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