Marion Co TOC

To me, a highlight of family history is to be able to walk on the ground my ancestors walked on. To perhaps locate an old graveyard or their still standing home. If this is one of your goals, to be successful you will have to know where to look. Fortunately Arkansas is a Public Domain Land state and every square mile of land in the state can be located by its Federal (Congressional) townships. The maps here will help you. Each square mile of land (a section) in Marion Co can be pinpointed by using these maps. If you don't understand Federal (also known as Congressional) Townships (Sections/ Townships / Ranges) read an explanation

Elsewhere on the Marion Co AR site you will find references to Federal Townships. For example: Property tax lists include these, as do landowner lists of various kinds and legal notices in old newspapers. If you want to locate an ancestor's land and have the legal land description you can find the land using this description. The maps found here in the first section are listed by its Federal Township designation.

The second section below are Marion Co County Townships. There townships have names not letters and numbers. The boundaries of these townships can and have changed over time. These are the names you will find mentioned in many places here on the Marion Co site. There are some townships that have no map. If the township you are looking for isn't listed in this section visit Timeline of Townships Formation & Changes