Towns and Townships of Marion County

This page starts with an overview section that ends with a link to the townships in the county and another link to the current towns. The next section has a list of incorporated communities, while the next section has a list of unincorporated communities, and the final section information about communities or places.

Overview

For an overview of Marion county's towns and townships, visit the following sites:

Wikipedia

This is the Wikipedia page for Marion County, Iowa.

History of Marion County, Iowa, and Its People

This link points to p. 157 (the start of Chapter X on the Towns and Villages of the county) of the scanned book on archive.org (also know as the Internet Archive) entitled History of Marion County, Iowa, and Its People, written by John W. Wright and W. A. Young and published in 1915 by the S. J. Clarke Publishing Company.

Iowa Communities and Counties (Past & Present)

This link points to the parent of this site, IAGenWeb.org, where there is list of past and present communities within Marion county.

Iowa Communities and Counties (Past & Present)

This link is a slight variation of the last. It may also be of interest to learn when and how an Iowa county was formed. After clicking on the link, simply click on the letter that starts the name of your county of interest. You will then be given a list of counties starting with this letter. Choose the one of interest. You will then be given the date the county was formed and the parent county (counties), if there any.

townships

This link lists all of the townships within Marion county with the Township, Range data (e.g., T 77N, R 21W) and an approximate location within the county. There are also maps that show these townships within the county.

current towns

This link lists the current towns within the county and includes which sections and township the towns reside within. The data is from Farm & Home Plat & Directory of Marion County, Iowa by FHP Farm & Home Publishers LTD, Belmond, Iowa from some unspecified year.

Incorporated Communities

The following is the current list of the incorporated towns and cities within Marion county. The page for each contains at least a link to a Google map to the town, a link to the Wikipedia page for the town, a link from the Marion County Development website for the town and the township sections within the towns reside and which township, as illustrated in the list below for unincorporated communities. Additionally, when available, other relevant links are also included. If any community websites have been overlooked, contact the county coordinator using the link in the footer of this page.

• Bussey
• Hamilton
• Harvey
• Knoxville
• Marysville
• Melcher-Dallas
• Pella
• Pleasantville
• Swan

Unincorporated Communities

The following is a current list of unincorporated communities within Marion county. Following each name in (parentheses) is location information from Farm & Home Plat & Directory of Marion County, Iowa by FHP Farm & Home Publishers LTD, Belmond, Iowa. Following the locations, are zero or more links that give further information about these places.

• Attica: (Section 11 in Indiana Township) Wikipedia
• Cloud: (Section 35 in Dallas Township) Wikipedia
• Columbia: (Sections 27 & 34 in Washington Township) Wikipedia
• Flagler: It is located 5 miles east of Knoxville, just off CR T15
• Otley: (Sections 15 & 22 in Summit Township) Wikipedia
• Pershing: (Sections 26 & 35 in Indiana Township)
• Tracy: (Sections 24 & 25 in Clay Township) Wikipedia

Historical Communities or places

The following is a list of information about other historic communities/places within Marion county.

• IAGenWeb also has a list of towns that at one time existed in Marion county. This is part of a state-wide list.
• Here is a list of names and locations for the more common historic communities (i.e., are on a 1901 map) in the list of towns in the bullet above. They are organized by township starting at the top of the county and moving west to east. To see these on a map, visit the current townships page
  • Morgan Valley (Section 9 in Perry (now Red Rock) Township)
  • Percy (Section 11 in Perry (now Red Rock) Township)
  • Dunreath (Sections 27, 28 in Red Rock Township)
  • Red Rock (Section 36 in Summit Township)
  • Howell (Section 19 in Lake Prairie Township)
  • Durham (Section 8 in Clay Township)
  • Donley (Section 4 in Knoxville Township)
  • Caloma (Section 29 in Franklin Township)
  • NewBern (Section 32 in Franklin Township)
  • Gosport (Sections 15, 16, 22 in Washington Township)
• Abandoned Towns from Annals of Iowa 1929-1933
• The 1918-1919 Business Directory in the Iowa State Gazetteer has a list of current towns as well as those fading away.