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Marion is a city in eastern Crittenden County, Arkansas, and the county seat, located along the Mississippi River across from Memphis, Tennessee, as part of the Memphis metropolitan area.

Marion was chosen as the Crittenden County seat when the county was established in 1825, but county business did not actually begin to be conducted there until 1836, after the original river seat of Greenock proved hard to reach.

The city is named for Marion Tolbert, who with his wife Temperance donated the land for the county seat in 1837, when the town was formally laid out.

Marion was first incorporated on April 19, 1851, but the incorporation lapsed during the Civil War and had to be renewed twice, with the current incorporation dating to March 5, 1896.

The fourth Crittenden County Courthouse, completed in 1911, still anchors the city and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

A marker along Marion's old Military Road recalls that the road carried Native American families westward through the area during the Trail of Tears removals of the 1830s.

Just east of Marion near Mound City, the steamboat Sultana exploded on April 27, 1865, killing an estimated 1,500 released Union prisoners and crew in the largest loss of life from a maritime disaster in U.S. history; the Sultana Disaster Museum opened in Marion in 2015 to tell that story.

Interstates 40 and 55, two of the nation's busiest highways, intersect about two miles south of Marion, and both Union Pacific and BNSF operate intermodal rail yards in the city.

Marion boomed as a Memphis suburb in the late twentieth century, growing from 2,996 residents in 1980 to 8,901 in 2000.

The 2020 census counted 13,752 people in Marion living in 5,096 households, making it the second-largest city in Crittenden County behind West Memphis.