Crab Orchard Precinct, formerly township, is

Congressional Township A survey township, sometimes called a Congressional township or just township, as used by the United States Public Land Survey System, is a nominally-square area of land that is nominally six U.S. survey miles (about 9.66 km) on a side. Ea ...

9 South, Range 4 East of the Third Principal Meridian located in

Williamson County, Illinois Williamson County is a county in Southern Illinois. At the 2020 census, it had a population of 67,153. The largest city and county seat is Marion. Williamson County is included in the Carbondale-Marion, IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. This ...

. It is named for the community of

Crab Orchard, Illinois Crab Orchard is an unincorporated census-designated place east of Marion in Williamson County, Illinois, located along an old route of Illinois Route 13 now designated Crab Orchard Road. The upper branches of Crab Orchard Creek which eventually ...

.2005. ''Williamson County, IL, Land Atlas & Plat Book''. St. Cloud, Minn.: Cloud Cartographics. 22.

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Townships in Williamson County, Illinois Precincts in Illinois {{WilliamsonCountyIL-geo-stub