THE MARION COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Plateau Escarpment setting.
Marion County has 498.3 square miles of land in Tennessee. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Marion County: Plateau Escarpment, Cumberland Plateau, Sequatchie Valley.
Open low mountains and plateau edges form a landscape of wooded uplands and deeper ravines. Escarpments mark the transition toward both the Ridge and Valley and the Interior Plateau.
Regional context: Southwestern Appalachians ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Marion County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Plateau Escarpment43.4%
- Cumberland Plateau34%
- Sequatchie Valley22.6%
Finding your parcel within Marion County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Marion County, including New Hope, Jasper, Monteagle. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Marion County by land and water
The Census records 14.1 square miles of water within Marion County, or 2.7% of its total area. That share is close to Marion County’s 2.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Marion County has 481.4 times the land area of nearby Sequatchie CDP (1.04 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Franklin County, Grundy County, Hamilton County, Sequatchie County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

