Marion County Civil Districts Maps
Below are links to maps obtained from the Tennessee State Library and Archives Manuscripts
Department and to images and transcriptions of the text descriptions of the boundaries and
poll locations in the districts. For now, this is only the Civil Districts, otherwise known
as justice precincts which were divisions of the county for elections and for dividing the
county into areas of County Commissioner representation. The significance of this is to show
what areas of the county correspond to which civil districts as they are named in the censuses
to be able to tell where a person in the censuses lived.
1836 Map of 10 Civil/Justice Districts (2 more districts added by the 1850 census):
Photocopy of the original 1836 map of the Marion
County Civil Districts/ Justice precincts
Image of original text description of the 1836
district boundaries
There was a cleaned-up altered version of this 1836 map done by Nonie Webb. It leaves out a lot
of what was on the map, and does not really show the district boundaries, but shows their
general location; however there was also a text transcription of the district boundaries from
the legal description that accompanied the original map, from which one could find the
boundaries. The link to the photocopy of the original map presented above here leaves out
nothing, but the whole map is black and white making it harder to tell boundaries from roads
and waterways, except that the lines have labels to tell what they represent.
The altered 1836 map version with a text
transcription is here