Marion, Alabama

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Perry County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 15 shown

• Chapel and Lovelace Hall, Marion Military Institutelisted 1978
• First Congregational Church of Marionlisted 1982
• Green Street Historic Districtlisted 1979
• Henry Houselisted 1986
• Judson College Historic Districtlisted 1993
• Kenworthy Halllisted 1990
• Marion Female Seminarylisted 1973
• Moore-Webb-Holmes Plantationlisted 2011
• Perry County Jaillisted 1996
• Phillips Memorial Auditoriumlisted 1990
• President's House, Marion Institutelisted 1979
• Siloam Baptist Churchlisted 1982

Every listing in Perry County

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 13 shown

• First Congregational Church of Marion, 601 Clay Street, Marionfederal building survey, 6 photographs
• Governor Andrew Barry Moore House, State Highway 14, Marionfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Jones-Cocke-Crenshaw House, Washington Street (County Road 45), Marionfederal building survey, 13 photographs
• Judge John Moore House, H. G. Williams Circle, Marionfederal building survey, 6 photographs
• Judge Porter King House, 1001 Washington Street, Marionfederal building survey, 8 photographs
• Kenworthy Hall, State Highway 14 (Greensboro Road), Marionfederal building survey, 99 photographs
• Lowrey-Ford House & Kitchen, Washington Street (County Road 45), Marionfederal building survey, 11 photographs
• Marion Female Seminary, Monroe & Centreville Streets, Marionfederal building survey, 4 photographs
• Osborne-Jones House, County Road 45 (Washington Street), Marionfederal building survey, 9 photographs
• Perry County Court House, Square bounded by State Highway 5, Main Street, Greensboro Avenue & East Street, Marionfederal building survey, 24 photographs
• Siloam Baptist Church, Washington & Early Streets, Marionfederal building survey, 4 photographs
• W. H. Edwards House, Edwards Road, Marionfederal building survey, 6 photographs

Every surveyed structure in Perry County

Marion grew from 1,698 to 3,176 between 1900 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
• 1979 USGS Marion North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS Marion North quadrangle1:24000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 360 fires within 5 miles of Marion between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,020 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 20 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Zimmerman
• Folsom
• Sprott
• Norman
• Radford
• Vilula

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marion in 37 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 2 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Perry County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 160038. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.