Last updated: April 28, 2026
Marion County has been home to many more named places than the roughly two dozen communities that have their own pages on this site. Some were neighborhoods inside a larger town. Others were railroad flag stops, short-lived post offices, river landings, or simply named coves on a topographic map. A few are present-day map labels with no federal post office in the historical record, picked up from modern road and weather maps and the chamber-of-commerce community roster. The RootsWeb Marion County gazetteer, the TNGenWeb post-office register (drawn from the Tennessee State Library and Archives), and the HometownLocator 48-name modern roster are the three principal sources behind the rosters below. Where the federal records give a date and the local-history sources give a narrative, the two have been threaded together. Where they do not, the entry is honest about that limit.
Names already covered on the site (Aetna, Battle Creek, Cheekville as the predecessor name for Whitwell, Copenhagen and Deptford within Richard City, Ebenezer, Foster Falls as a Grundy County feature, Griffith Creek, Guild within Haletown & Guild, Inman, Jasper, Jasper Highlands, Kimball, Ladd, Ladds Cove, Martin Springs, Mineral Springs, Monteagle, Mount Olive, Mullins Cove, Nickajack and Running Water, New Hope, Orme, Powells Crossroads, Rexton, Richard City, Sequatchie, Shellmound, South Pittsburg, Suck Creek, Sweetens Cove, Victoria, Whiteside, Whitwell) are not repeated here. Page-linked entries above point to their dedicated subpages; bare names are covered inside another community's page where the context fits.
Neighborhoods within the county's towns
These are not standalone communities but named sections of a larger incorporated town. On most modern maps they are barely distinguished, but in older records they appear as if they were separate places.
- Copenhagen. Small settlement absorbed into Richard City in 1914; covered on that page. Predecessor to the Dixie Portland company town alongside Deptford.
- Deptford. Pre-1906 name for the community that became Richard City when Dixie Portland Cement built its plant. Covered on the Richard City page.
- Kellyville. Neighborhood within the greater South Pittsburg / Richard City area, associated with Kelly family landowners. The federal Kellyville post office (1829–1839) predates South Pittsburg's 1876 founding, so this was an independent Kelly-family settlement now absorbed into the modern South Pittsburg footprint.
- Liberty East. Federal post office 1824–1828 (also listed in the post-offices section below). Tied to the “Liberty” sub-locality just south of Cheekville, where the original Cheek log house had served as a courthouse before Tennessee statehood; today the area is along the southern edge of Whitwell in the upper Sequatchie Valley.
- Lodge. Industrial neighborhood of South Pittsburg associated with the Lodge Cast Iron foundry. Covered in the South Pittsburg page and on the Lodge culture page.
- Shirleyton. Federal post office 1883–1904. Co-located at marker 8 on the TNGenWeb Marion County post-office map with Cedar Springs (1874–1929) and Wuni (1902–1903), placing all three in the same upper-county area. Still labeled on present-day maps near Whitwell.
- Wallview. Federal post office 1887–1890. Co-located at marker 23 on the TNGenWeb post-office map with Kimball and Ino, placing it in the modern Kimball area near the I-24 / US-72 interchange.
Railroad flag stops and small stations
Marion County's rail history produced a string of named stops along the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway and its predecessor East Tennessee and Georgia. Some matured into towns; many did not.
- Battle Creek Mines. The earliest post-office name for what became South Pittsburg, covering the NC&StL station serving the original Battle Creek coal operations opened in 1854 as Tennessee's fifth coal mine. The post office operated 1869–1876 before James Bowron and the Southern States Coal, Iron and Land Company renamed it South Pittsburg on May 23, 1876. The name was revived in 1905 as the Battle Creek Coal & Coke Company at Orme, ten miles upstream at the head of Doran's Cove. See the dedicated Battle Creek Mines community subpage →
- Booneville. Federal post office 1874–1880; location within Marion County not consistently documented in available sources. The Boone surname is well-attested in the upper Sequatchie Valley.
- Kell. Flag stop on a Marion County branch line; not in the federal post-office register and no marker on the TNGenWeb post-office map. Location not documented in available sources.
- Ino. Federal post office for a single year (1887). Co-located at marker 23 on the TNGenWeb post-office map with Kimball and Wallview, placing it in the modern Kimball area near the I-24 / US-72 interchange.
- Moffat and Moffat Station. Federal post offices on the NC&StL: Moffat Station 1871–1874, then Moffat 1874–1881. Co-located at marker 32 on the TNGenWeb post-office map with Mont Eagle (the period spelling of Monteagle), placing the stop on or near Monteagle Mountain along the Marion–Grundy line. Almost certainly one place under successive name forms as the post office adjusted to the railroad's local naming convention.
- Running Water. Pre-Whiteside station name for the community that became Whiteside; the Running Water post office operated 1847–1865. See the Whiteside page for the full railroad-stop lineage (Aetna, Etna, Running Water, Whiteside). Also the name of the Cherokee town covered on the Nickajack and Running Water page.
Short-lived post offices and thin community names
Most of these names correspond to post offices that opened and closed within a few years of one another, or to tiny cross-roads settlements that never grew beyond a handful of families. Marion County, like most rural Tennessee counties, gained and lost dozens of post offices between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries. Federal post-office opening and closing dates here come from the TNGenWeb Marion County post-office register, which is abstracted from the Tennessee State Library and Archives' Tennessee Place Names and Post Offices.
The TNGenWeb Marion County post-office map also assigns numeric markers to each surviving placename, with co-located names sharing a marker. That makes the map a strong source for the modern-day location of a vanished post office: when a thin name shares a marker with a town that still exists, the vanished name was somewhere in the same area. Co-location notes below cite those marker numbers.
- Arena. Listed in the RootsWeb Marion County gazetteer; no further documentation confirmed and no federal post office of that name appears in the Marion County register.
- Bayerville. Federal post office 1846–1848. Two-year office with no surviving narrative documentation; the Bayer surname is otherwise unattested in early Marion County records, suggesting the name may have been a transcription variant.
- Bryson's. Federal post office for a single year, 1848. Likely named for a Bryson family; the office did not survive long enough to leave a documentary trail beyond the post-office register.
- Burnett. Federal post office for a single year, 1901. Family-name place with no narrative documentation beyond the register.
- Cedar Springs. Federal post office 1874–1929, one of the longer-lived rural Marion County offices. Named for its springs. Co-located at marker 8 on the TNGenWeb post-office map with Shirleyton (1883–1904) and Wuni (1902–1903), placing all three in the same upper-county area.
- Cheeksville (federal-record spelling) / Cheekville (local spelling). Federal post office 1830–1887. The pre-1877 name for the upper-Sequatchie-Valley settlement that became Whitwell. Site of Marion County's first court session in 1817 at the home of John Shropshire. See the dedicated Cheekville subpage →
- Comfort. Federal post office 1888–1955. One of the longest-running rural Marion County offices. Co-located at marker 10 on the TNGenWeb post-office map with Gizzard (the Fiery Gizzard area, mostly in Grundy County), placing it on or near the Marion–Grundy plateau line in the upper Battle Creek headwaters / Fiery Gizzard country.
- Coops Creek (federal-record spelling) / Coops Springs (gazetteer spelling). Federal post office 1837–1858. Spring-fed settlement; the federal records preserve the watercourse-based name while later gazetteers used the spring-based form. Co-located at marker 11 on the TNGenWeb post-office map with Dunlap (the seat of Sequatchie County to the north), placing it in the upper Sequatchie Valley near the Marion–Sequatchie county line.
- Crawfordville. Federal post office 1853–1930, one of the longer-lived names. Family-name place not well documented in narrative sources beyond the register.
- Crown Point. Federal post office 1857–1866. The closing date suggests Civil War disruption. Co-located at marker 13 on the TNGenWeb post-office map with Prigmore's Store (1855–1857), placing the two crossroads offices within the same general area.
- Dadsville. Federal post office 1850–1877. The 1877 closing matches the year that nearby Victoria was renamed for Queen Victoria; period accounts identify Dadsville as the pre-Victoria name for the site, making this a documented rename rather than a separate vanished community.
- Delphi. Federal post office 1822–1850. One of the earliest Marion County offices; classical-name placename common in early Tennessee.
- Dove. Federal post office 1879–1932. Co-located at marker 17 on the TNGenWeb post-office map with Martin Springs, placing it in northwestern Marion County in the Battle Creek headwaters area at the south foot of Monteagle Mountain.
- Durango. Federal post office 1897–1900. A short-lived Marion County office named, presumably, for the Spanish-American place by the same name, in the period when such borrowings were fashionable in rural Tennessee post-office naming.
- Ellisville. Federal post office 1907–1910. Co-located at marker 19 on the TNGenWeb post-office map with Kelly's Ferry and Oate's Island, placing it in western Marion County on or near the Tennessee River around the Kelly's Ferry crossing.
- Fairview. Federal post office 1850–1853. Common rural Tennessee placename; the Marion County version did not survive past the early 1850s.
- Gholston. Federal post office 1882–1884. Co-located at marker 21 on the TNGenWeb post-office map with Inman and Pryor, placing it in the southeastern Marion County corridor along Walden Ridge near the Marion–Hamilton line.
- Ketchall. Federal post office 1879–1929, a relatively long run for a small rural office. No additional narrative documentation.
- Lamar. Federal post office for a single year, 1850. Listed place with no further detail.
- Liberty East. Federal post office 1824–1828. Almost certainly tied to the “Liberty” sub-locality just south of the broader Cheekville settlement, where the original Cheek log house had served as a courthouse before Tennessee statehood and again briefly after Marion County's 1817 organization. See the Cheekville subpage →
- Lovers Leap. Federal post office 1882–1889. The same Cumberland Plateau bluff feature also covered as a geographic feature below; the post office gives the folk-name placename a documentary footprint that lasted seven years.
- Mount Vernon. A historical school by this name existed (see historical schools roster). No federal post office of this name in the Marion County register; the community is listed but not separately documented.
- Needmore. Federal post office for a single year, 1902. Listed as one of the early coal-mine locations on the 1863 map alongside Etna, Whitwell, Victoria, Orme, and others. Richard Orme Campbell renamed the Needmore camp Orme for his son in 1902, the same year the Needmore post office closed and the Orme post office opened, confirming this Needmore as the pre-Orme name for the Doran's Cove coal camp.
- Oak Grove. Common Tennessee placename; the Marion County version has no federal post office of record and no distinctive narrative documentation. Modern road and weather maps actually show two Oak Groves in the county: one on the plateau near Monteagle, and a second on the Sequatchie Valley floor between Mineral Springs and Sulphur Springs on the east side of TN-28. Both are small rural neighborhoods rather than crossroads with civic infrastructure.
- Owen. Federal post office 1882–1890. Co-located at marker 38 on the TNGenWeb post-office map with the Sequatchie / Sequachee post offices, placing it at or adjacent to the modern Sequatchie community on the Little Sequatchie River.
- Pleasant Grove. Common rural community name; no federal post office and no Marion-specific documentation beyond the gazetteer.
- Prigmore's Store. Federal post office 1855–1857. A two-year crossroads office named for the Prigmore family's storefront, the standard pattern for tiny pre-Civil-War Tennessee post offices that were essentially rooms in a private business. Co-located at marker 13 on the TNGenWeb post-office map with Crown Point.
- Pryor / Pryor Cove / Pryor Ridge. A cluster of Pryor-family toponyms along US-41 at the base of the plateau near Jasper. The federal Pryor post office operated 1882–1886, co-located at marker 21 on the TNGenWeb post-office map with Inman and Gholston in the southeastern Marion County corridor along Walden Ridge. Pryor Cove Branch is a named tributary on USGS topographic maps, and the Pryor family name is remembered chiefly for Pryor Institute, covered on the education landing page and in the Jasper page. The cove itself is a rural residential area not separately documented in the gazetteer.
- Rankinsville. Federal post office 1856–1858. Small community near Rankin's Ferry, at the long-serving river crossing between Guild and Shellmound that operated into the late 1920s. Covered in the Haletown and Guild page.
- Roope. Federal post office 1904–1922. Co-located at marker 27 on the TNGenWeb post-office map with Whiteside, Ladds (now Ladd), and the pre-Whiteside Running Water post office, placing it in the southwestern corner of Marion County near the Marion–Hamilton border on Raccoon Mountain.
- Stanley. Federal post office 1878–1918, a relatively long run. Still labeled on present-day maps as a small populated place near Elder Mountain in the southeastern corner of the county on the Marion–Hamilton line, just inside the Tennessee River Gorge as it bends toward Chattanooga.
- Sulphur Springs. Rural spring-fed community south of Powells Crossroads on the east side of TN-28; no federal post office of record but still labeled on present-day road and weather maps. Listed in the gazetteer without additional narrative sources.
- Thompsons Springs. Rural spring-fed community; no federal post office and no further narrative detail.
- Union. Federal post office 1836–1839. Common rural Tennessee placename; the Marion County version did not survive past the late 1830s.
- Victory. Federal post office 1849–1905, one of the longer-lived rural offices. No surviving narrative documentation in available sources.
- Walnut Valley. Federal post office 1848–1867. Rural community with no further narrative detail in available sources.
- Whitwell Pocket (gazetteer entry “Pocket” / “Poket”). The “pocket” on Whitwell Mountain, a small basin in the Cumberland Plateau rim above Whitwell. The gazetteer's “Pocket” and “Poket” entries refer to this plateau-rim feature rather than a separate settlement; the place does not appear as an independent post office in the federal Marion County register.
- Woodlee. Federal post office 1891–1907. Listed place with no further detail.
- Wuni. Federal post office 1902–1903. Co-located at marker 8 on the TNGenWeb post-office map with Cedar Springs and Shirleyton, placing it in the same upper-county area as those two longer-lived offices.
Islands, ferries, and landings on the Tennessee River
Before Hales Bar Dam and Nickajack Dam raised the Tennessee River into Nickajack Lake, the river through Marion County was an active transportation corridor of flatboats, steamboats, and ferries. Several named landings and small islands appear on old maps and in gazetteers.
- Kelly's Ferry. Major 19th-century ferry crossing on the Tennessee River, significant during the Civil War as the river terminus of the “Cracker Line” that broke the Confederate siege of Chattanooga in 1863. Now covered as a dedicated Kelly's Ferry community page.
- Ketners Mill. A historic mill site on the Sequatchie River, between Whitwell and the modern Sequatchie community. The mill is more often associated with that stretch of the valley than with a distinct Marion County settlement of its own. A folk-life festival called the Ketner's Mill Country Fair is held at the site annually and is referenced on the culture landing page.
- Oate's Island. Small Tennessee River island. Federal Oate's Island post office 1878–1907, co-located at marker 19 on the TNGenWeb post-office map with Kelly's Ferry and Ellisville, placing it on the river in western Marion County in the Kelly's Ferry stretch. The island itself is now submerged or fringed by Nickajack Lake.
- Oats Landing. River landing on the Tennessee; federal post office 1829–1838, no map marker assigned in the TNGenWeb register. No longer an active crossing; almost certainly underwater under Nickajack Lake.
- Ottes Landing. River landing; federal post office for a single year, 1850, with no map marker. No active modern use; like Oats Landing, almost certainly inundated by Nickajack Lake.
Coves, ridges, and other geographic features
Several names on the Marion County gazetteer are primarily geographic features, ridges, coves, creeks, or bluffs, rather than settlement communities. They appear here because historical records often list them alongside towns.
- Dorans / Doran's Cove. A cove on the west side of the county, at the base of the Cumberland Plateau, carrying the upper Battle Creek drainage. The cove is the setting of the unincorporated town of Orme, which sits inside Doran's Cove. Early Anglo-American settlers in the cove included the Doran family; “Doran's Cove School” is listed in the historical schools roster.
- Looney's Creek. Eastern-side drainage that comes off Whitwell Mountain and joins the upper Sequatchie River corridor between Whitwell and Powells Crossroads, in the Ketner Gap area on the USGS topographic map. The federal Looney's Creek post office operated 1851–1890. Today the drainage and a small named neighborhood persist along Looneys Creek Drive in Whitwell, and Looney's Creek Chapel United Methodist Church on the creek dates to the late 19th century.
- Lovers Leap. Bluff feature on the Cumberland Plateau rim. The folk-name carried a federal post office 1882–1889 (also listed in the post-offices section above) and is at marker 31 on the TNGenWeb post-office map; the post-office record is the closest the place comes to a documentary population.
- Shake Rag. Abandoned coal-camp company town of the McNabb Mines (1880s–1905) on the southern end of Walden's Ridge, deep in the Tennessee River Gorge. Stone ruins of the mine, incline plane, and community buildings survive within Prentice Cooper State Forest. On the National Register of Historic Places since 2008. See the dedicated Shake Rag community subpage →
- Summit. A plateau-top place identified on the 1863 coal-mine map alongside Etna, Whitwell, Vulcan, and other early mine sites; name refers to the elevation top rather than an independent community. Not in the federal post-office register and no map marker.
- Vulcan. Listed as one of the 1863 coal-mine locations in Marion County, named for the Roman god of fire and metallurgy in the same vein of mid-19th-century mine names that produced Etna and (later) Pittsburgh-derived South Pittsburg. Still labeled on present-day road and weather maps on the east side of the Tennessee River near the I-24 corridor between Ladd and Haletown; the surviving label preserves the mine-era place name even though the working operation closed in the 19th century. No federal post office of this name is in the Marion County register.
- Walden's Ridge. Regional ridge name for the Cumberland Plateau escarpment along the north side of the Tennessee River Gorge, spanning several counties. The Marion County portion runs from the Hamilton-county line through the gorge bluffs north to the Sequatchie Valley rim. The Walden's Ridge post office operated 1851–1866, at marker 44 on the TNGenWeb post-office map; the placename itself is regional, not Marion-specific.
Present-day named places not in the postal record
These names appear on present-day road maps, weather maps, USGS topographic maps, and the county's tourism and chamber-of-commerce community lists, but they have no federal post office in the historical register and no marker on the TNGenWeb post-office map. Most are family-name hamlets, hill-name neighborhoods, ridge-rim crossroads, or rural cross-roads clusters that have informal community identity without ever having been formally chartered. They show up here because, even without postal documentation, they are part of how Marion County orients itself today.
- Clifftops. A 2,000-acre gated plateau-top development inside Monteagle's tri-county footprint (Monteagle straddles Franklin, Grundy, and Marion counties), with 280 privately owned five-acre-minimum lots, an internal-road system maintained by the Clifftops Property Owners Association, a clubhouse, lake, pool, tennis, and equestrian trails. Browfront common areas include Preacher's Rock. Listed on the county community roster as a Marion-side place even though the development center sits closer to Sewanee and Monteagle proper.
- Condra. Upper-Sequatchie-Valley hamlet of the Condra family along TN-28 between Whitwell and Powells Crossroads. Site of the Sequatchie Valley Branch Railroad's Condra Switch, and the source of the Cedar Springs post office (1874), founded by a Condra-family member. See the dedicated Condra community subpage →
- The Crossroads. A small named crossroads place northwest of Orme near the county line along South Pittsburg Mountain Road, where the road tops out before the descent into Doran's Cove. Listed as a Marion County community on the modern community roster but no narrative documentation in available sources beyond its placement on the road grid.
- Dixie Lee. The Marion-County portion of Monteagle, named for Dixie Lee Avenue, the principal commercial street through the Marion side of the town. Monteagle City Hall is at 16 Dixie Lee Avenue, and the avenue carries most of the Marion-side Monteagle businesses (Dixie Lee Diner, Mountain Valley Bank's Monteagle branch, and the small commercial cluster at the I-24 / US-41A interchange). On modern community rosters, Dixie Lee is sometimes listed as a Marion County hamlet in its own right.
- East Hill. A populated place adjacent to Ebenezer near the Marion County Airport (Brown Field), about four nautical miles southeast of Jasper. Modern road maps label both East Hill and Ebenezer as separate small populated places along the same valley-floor corridor; there is no narrative documentation distinguishing East Hill's history from Ebenezer's beyond the present-day labels.
- Glover Hill. A small named hill and surrounding neighborhood between Jasper and Kimball along U.S. 41. Local Jasper history records the original First Baptist Church as a log building at the bottom of Glover Hill, torn apart by a storm before the present-day Jasper Baptist church was built; the name is preserved in the modern Glover Hill neighborhood listing on county-tourism rosters.
- Greentown. A small hamlet near Cane Mountain in the Monteagle-area corner of the county. Listed as a Marion County hamlet on present-day mapping services but no narrative documentation in available sources.
- Hamburg. A neighborhood within South Pittsburg, near the Lodge Cast Iron foundry. The German-style placename is consistent with the late-19th-century immigrant labor pattern at the South Pittsburg foundries; no specific narrative documentation in available sources, but the name is preserved on present-day road and tourism rosters as one of the county's named places.
- Moore Crossing. A small named place listed in the Hearthstone Legacy and chamber-of-commerce community rosters for Marion County, with no specific narrative documentation in available sources. Likely a Moore-family namesake at a road crossing of the kind that produced “-Crossing” placenames across rural Tennessee in the late 19th century; precise location not consistently reported.
- Nickletown. A small populated place between the modern Sequatchie community and Jasper, on the east side of TN-28. Listed as one of Marion County's historical communities on the chamber-of-commerce roster; precise origin of the unusual name is not documented in available sources, though similar “Nickel-” placenames in the broader Cumberland Plateau region typically trace to small-coin frontier-economy folk-names.
- Pine Hill. A small subdivision-scale neighborhood appearing on modern mapping services as a Marion County place. No narrative documentation in available sources beyond its present-day map listing.
- Pinhook. A hamlet on the I-24 corridor between Kimball and Martin Springs, alongside Comfort and Smithtown on the Cumberland Plateau ascent. The name is the standard Appalachian folk-toponym for a sharp bend in a road or stream. Listed today on county community rosters; no specific narrative documentation.
- Rankin Cove. A small bay and surrounding neighborhood along Nickajack Lake in southeastern Marion County, near TVA Road and the I-24 corridor between Ladd and Haletown. Named for the same Rankin family who ran Rankin's Ferry (also known as Belchers Ferry or Loves Ferry) on the Tennessee River, the long-serving 19th-century crossing covered on the Haletown and Guild page. Distinct from the short-lived 1856–1858 Rankinsville post office.
- Raulstontown. South Pittsburg Mountain hamlet of the Raulston family, with Civil War fortifications at Tom Ellis's old home and Red Cut Hill, the 1829 pioneer cemetery near Whitacre Point, and the birthplace of John T. Raulston, the judge who presided over the 1925 Scopes Trial. See the dedicated Raulstontown community subpage →
- Red Hill. A small community north of Whitwell on the old Dunlap Highway, anchored by Red Hill community church and a 1,343-memorial cemetery, one of the larger 19th- and 20th-century rural cemeteries in the upper county. See the dedicated Red Hill community subpage →
- Smithtown. Hamlet on the I-24 corridor between Kimball and Martin Springs, alongside Comfort and Pinhook on the Cumberland Plateau ascent. Listed today on county community rosters; the family-name placename is consistent with a Smith-family settlement, though no specific narrative documentation has been confirmed.
Modern mountaintop developments
Two large 21st-century residential developments sit on Cumberland Plateau ridgetops in Marion County. Both are gated communities built on former timber and coal-era land by the same developer, John “Thunder” Thornton of Thunder Enterprises. They are neither traditional unincorporated communities nor historical place names, but they are among the largest private land-use changes the county has seen since the decline of coal and coke, and they appear on enough maps and in enough records that a roster of Marion County places without them would be incomplete.
- Jasper Highlands. On Jasper Mountain directly above Jasper. Thunder Enterprises acquired roughly 4,500 acres in January 2008 with options on an additional 4,000, for a total footprint of about 8,893 acres (roughly half in conservation easement). First lots opened for sale in 2014; roughly 1,300 of a planned 1,600 lots had sold by the early 2020s. See the Jasper Highlands page for the full account.
- River Gorge Ranch. On Aetna Mountain at the plateau rim above the Tennessee River Gorge. Thunder Enterprises acquired about 7,400 acres in 2021 for a planned 2,500-lot gated community; the first phase of about 390 lots was approved by the Marion County Planning Commission, and a new 1.6-mile access road up the mountain was largely complete by 2024. Continuing disputes over roads, septic systems, utility infrastructure, and the treatment of old mine workings under the footprint have followed the project. See the Aetna community page for details.
Outside-county names listed in local gazetteers
Some names in Marion County gazetteer lists actually lie in adjoining counties. They are included here for clarity, because researchers sometimes encounter them in Marion County-labeled sources.
- Dunlap. County seat of Sequatchie County to the north; sometimes listed in regional gazetteers that cover the whole Sequatchie Valley.
- Foster Falls. A waterfall and small community in Grundy County; not in Marion County despite occasional inclusion in regional lists.
- Gizzard (Fiery Gizzard). A cove and creek system in Grundy County; the Fiery Gizzard Trail system is nearby but outside Marion County.
- Monteagle (Mont Eagle). The town of Monteagle straddles the Marion–Grundy line; the Marion County portion has its own page.
- Tracy City. Town in Grundy County; historically tied to Marion County's coal-and-coke economy but not politically in Marion.
Related
Back to Communities landing page →
First settlers of Marion County →
Historical schools of Marion County →
Sources
- TNGenWeb Marion County — Post Offices register (opening and closing dates for almost every name on this page; abstracted from the Tennessee State Library and Archives)
- TNGenWeb Marion County — Post Office Map (numeric markers for the approximate location of each post office; co-located names share a marker)
- TopoZone — Looneys Creek (Ketner Gap area, between Whitwell and Powells Crossroads)
- TAG Cavers / Underground Earth — McNabb Mines, Shake Rag, Marion County, Tennessee (history and current ruins in Prentice Cooper State Forest)
- Chattanoogan — Williams Brothers Coal Interests in Marion County / Shakerag (March 2019)
- RootsWeb Marion County TNGenWeb — cities and communities list
- HometownLocator — Marion County, TN cities, towns, neighborhoods, and subdivisions (the present-day 48-name community roster used to identify modern-only map labels)
- Marion County Chamber of Commerce — Our Communities
- Chattanoogan — Tri-state Sequatchie Valley Branch Railroad rail stops (Condra Switch, Cedar Springs)
- TNGenWeb — Red Hill Cemetery (Whitwell)
- Find a Grave — Red Hill Cemetery (north of Whitwell)
- Marion County News — South Pittsburg 150th Celebration history (Raulstontown, Civil War fortifications at Tom Ellis's old home, Red Cut Hill)
- Marion County TNGenWeb home (general index)
- TNGenWeb Marion County — Coal Mines (1863 mine map identifying Needmore, Vulcan, and other early-mine placenames)
- South Pittsburg Historic Preservation Society — Ghost Towns of Marion County
- Tennessee Encyclopedia — Marion County
- Acts of Tennessee 1817, Chapter 109 (establishment of Marion County, John Shropshire's house at Cheekville as first court venue)
- Wikipedia — Whitwell, Tennessee (Cheekville as predecessor name)
- Wikipedia — Populated places in Marion County, Tennessee (category)
- Jasper Highlands developer site
- Chattanooga Times Free Press: Jasper Mountain development (2014)
- TNLand: Aetna Mountain's River Gorge Ranch (2022)