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Marion County, Illinois

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29newspaper titles
0digitized titles
8historic places
1800earliest paper
1823formed
37,729pop. 2020
141cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 29 newspaper titles published in Marion County, Illinois, with the earliest starting in 1800. None of these titles are currently digitized on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 8 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975. Most listings are in or near Salem, Centralia, Kinmundy.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Marion

Library of Congress
29 newspaper titles
TitlePlaceYears
Centralia Daily DemocratCentralia1800–1999
Marion County RepublicanSalem1800–1896
Central City GazetteCentral City1854–1899
Egyptian RepublicCentralia1859–1861
Centralia Egyptian RepublicCentralia1861–1899
Centralia SentinelCentralia1863–1912
The Centralia DemocratCentralia1867–1999
The Kinmundy TelegramKinmundy1867–1899
The Kinmundy IndependentKinmundy1868–1881
Daily Centralia SentinelCentralia1869–1869
Centralia SentinelCentralia1870–1870
Marion County Anti-MonopolistSalem1873–1899
The IndustrialSalem1875–1899
Marion County HeraldSalem1876–1880
The Kinmundy BulletinKinmundy1876–1876
The Kinmundy ExpressKinmundy1883–1918
Centralia Daily SentinelCentralia1884–1906
Marion County DemocratSalem1889–1955
Daily Herald-AdvocateSalem1898–1999
Iuka BeeIuka1899–1999
Centralia Evening SentinelCentralia1906–1989
Centralia Weekly SentinelCentralia1912–1999
Marion County ExpressKinmundy1918–1920
The Kinmundy ExpressKinmundy1920–2006
The Egyptian Labor JournalCentralia1945–1999
Marion County Ledger-StarSandoval1982–?
Centralia SentinelCentralia1989–1995
Centralia Morning SentinelCentralia1995–2024
The Express-JournalKinmundy?–

Source: Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory. “Digitized” links lead to page images on Chronicling America.

Coverage timeline

Newspapers

Each bar is one title’s publication span. brown = digitized on Chronicling America Open-ended runs extend to today.

18001856191319692026

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

6 of 8 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

8 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Bachmann, Charles and Naomi, HouseSalemBuilding2001
Badollet HouseSalemBuilding1990
Bryan, William Jennings, Boyhood HomeSalemBuilding1975
Centralia Commercial Historic DistrictCentraliaDistrict2012
Illinois Central Railroad Water Tower and Pump HouseKinmundyStructure1998
Methodist Episcopal ChurchSalemBuilding2018
Rohrbough, Calendar, HouseKinmundyBuilding1979
Sentinel BuildingCentraliaBuilding1978

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Marion was formed in 1823 (1823-01-24) from Fayette, Jefferson.

MARION created from FAYETTE and JEFFERSON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Marion County population from 1830 to 2020 (Census historical series).

48k25k2,12518301840188019201930196020002020
183018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
2,1254,74212,73923,68630,44637,49747,98941,70039,34943,52341,69137,729

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

141 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 141 listed
NameLatLon
Allman Cemetery38.70716-88.95593
Alma Cemetery38.71662-88.91624
Andereck - McClelland Cemetery38.57537-89.11122
Antioch Cemetery38.54582-88.99706
Barrall Cemetery38.52892-88.79284
Bee Branch Cemetery38.66467-88.78641
Bell Cemetery38.54159-88.83788
Bethlehem Cemetery38.57639-88.95217
Blankenship Cemetery38.49627-88.80249
Branch Cemetery38.56088-88.99437
Brasel CemeteryNoneNone
Bryan Memorial Park38.63837-88.94728
Bryant CemeteryNoneNone
Bundy CemeteryNoneNone
Burge Cemetery38.5272-89.01709
Burroughs Cemetery38.54974-88.71284
Burton CemeteryNoneNone
Byars Cemetery38.48675-88.81739
Caldwell Cemetery38.75259-89.00234
Calvary Cemetery38.53903-89.1152
Carrigan Cemetery38.67059-89.05711
Cemetery38.68955-88.99012
Cemetery38.80161-89.05968
Christian Home Cemetery38.52625-88.71693
Clack Cemetery38.67619-88.74232
Cockrell Cemetery38.75868-88.79717
Conant Cemetery38.78887-89.00641
Copeland CemeteryNoneNone
Copple CemeteryNoneNone
Courson Cemetery38.7882-88.72485
Covenanter CemeteryNoneNone
Cruse Cemetery38.73751-89.0323
Cubbage Chapel Cemetery38.68048-89.00138
Cummins CemeteryNoneNone
Davidson CemeteryNoneNone
Davis CemeteryNoneNone
Deadmond Cemetery38.58514-89.09387
Dees CemeteryNoneNone
Dickens Cemetery38.64943-88.94676
Dickens CemeteryNoneNone
Dickerson CemeteryNoneNone
Donoho Prairie Cemetery38.4826-88.80149
Doolen Cemetery38.80642-89.0146
Doolen Cemetery38.80788-88.94668
Dunkard Cemetery38.5918-88.8874
Eagan Cemetery38.65439-88.93047
East Lawn Cemetery38.62933-88.93759
Eastland Cemetery38.7516-88.88336
Elder Cemetery38.79046-88.72631
Elmwood Cemetery38.54181-89.12336
England CemeteryNoneNone
Ennis Cemetery38.57615-89.06395
Evergreen Cemetery38.77885-88.85643
Fields Cemetery38.53322-88.74111
Finch Cemetery38.7733-89.07161
Foster CemeteryNoneNone
Fredonia Cemetery38.69222-89.02998
Fulton CemeteryNoneNone
Fyke CemeteryNoneNone
Gainsville CemeteryNoneNone
Gray Cemetery38.79424-88.85034
Hadden Cemetery38.66781-88.80417
Haines CemeteryNoneNone
Hall CemeteryNoneNone
Harrison Cemetery38.70627-89.0845
Hartlin Cemetery38.70852-88.93109
Harveys Point Cemetery38.54779-88.90469
Henneman CemeteryNoneNone
Hickory Hill Cemetery38.49765-88.74323
Hillcrest Memorial Park38.56599-89.12431
Holt Cemetery38.79088-89.04919
Holt CemeteryNoneNone
Iuka Cemetery38.61857-88.77279
Jameson CemeteryNoneNone
Jones Cemetery38.75882-88.97777
Jones Cemetery38.79231-88.89163
Kamp CemeteryNoneNone
Kell Cemetery38.56287-88.85931
Lee CemeteryNoneNone
Lewis Cemetery38.71613-89.10475

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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