THE MARSHALL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Inner Nashville Basin setting.
Marshall County has 375.5 square miles of land in Tennessee. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Marshall County: Inner Nashville Basin, Outer Nashville Basin.
Open hills, irregular plains and tablelands are developed on limestone and other sedimentary rocks. Oak-hickory woodland, local prairie and cedar-glade settings contribute to this diverse inland plateau.
Regional context: Interior Plateau ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Marshall County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Inner Nashville Basin51%
- Outer Nashville Basin49%
Finding your parcel within Marshall County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Marshall County, including Lewisburg, Cornersville, Chapel Hill. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Marshall County by land and water
The Census records 0.7 square miles of water within Marshall County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Marshall County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Marshall County has 26.3 times the land area of nearby Lewisburg city (14.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bedford County, Giles County, Lincoln County, Maury County, Rutherford County, Williamson County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

