East Marion 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 3 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

Marion, Illinois Marion is a city in Williamson and Johnson Counties, Illinois, United States, and is the county seat of Williamson County. The population was 16,855 at the 2020 census. It is part of a dispersed urban area that developed out of the early 20th ...

.2005. ''Williamson County, IL, Land Atlas & Plat Book''. St. Cloud, Minn.: Cloud Cartographics. 20.

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