Marshall County, Indiana

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

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Etymology - Origin of County Name

Named for John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

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History

Marshall County was formally organized on April 1, 1836 It was named for U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall, who died in 1835

Marshall County is divided into 10 Civil Townships as follows: Bourbon, Center, German, Green, North, Polk, Tippecanoe, Union, Walnut and West

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 450 square miles (1,165 km²), of which 444 square miles (1,151 km²) is land and 6 square miles (15 km²) (1.26%) is water. The Yellow River flows through northern, central, and western portions of Marshall County, past Plymouth; the Tippecanoe River flows through the southeastern part of the county

Neighboring Counties:

North: St. Joseph County
Northeast: Elkhart County
Southeast: Kosciusko County
South: Fulton County
Southwest: Pulaski County
West: Starke County

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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of our 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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