Marshall County, Alabama
Marshall County · Guntersville · the lake seat sits here · Albertville is not the hall · NASA Marshall is Madison County
Guntersville is the hall. Albertville is the large city — it is not the hall. Boaz is not the hall.
Marshall County, Alabama, was erected 9 January 1836 and named for Chief Justice John Marshall. The seat moved from Claysville to Marshall (Wyeth) to Warrenton before it settled at Guntersville in 1848. Guntersville is the seat. Albertville is the largest city. Albertville is not the county government. Boaz is not the county government. Arab sits on the Cullman edge — it is not this hall. Grant, Douglas, and Union Grove are not the hall. This is not Marshall County, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, West Virginia, or Mississippi. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center is in Madison County / Huntsville. It is not this courthouse. Montgomery is the capital of Alabama. It does not sit here.
Places include Guntersville, Albertville, Boaz, Arab, Grant, Douglas, and Union Grove. 2020 census: 97,612. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — lake-and-Sand-Mountain patrol and the Blount Avenue detention house — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Marshall County.
Four districts plus an at-large chair on Blount Avenue. They do not sit in Albertville as this county.
Marshall is a five-member County Commission: four Commissioners by district and a Chairman elected at-large. There is no County Executive. Commission chambers list on the third floor of the Marshall County Courthouse, 424 Blount Avenue, Guntersville. They fund roads, the jail, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Albertville City Council is a city body. Guntersville City Council is a city body. Boaz is a city. Arab is a city.
The courthouse is at 424 Blount Avenue (27th Judicial Circuit). The Circuit Clerk and Absentee Election Manager list 424 Blount Avenue, Suite 201. A satellite Circuit Clerk office lists at 133 South Emmett Street, Albertville — a court satellite, not the hall. A NASA rumor is not this county.
The Sheriff is four years, Article V § 138, 2026 with the Governor. Take office 18 January 2027. The Mayor of Albertville is a city clock.
Lake Guntersville sits here. NASA Marshall is in Madison County. Montgomery is still the capital.
U.S. 431 and U.S. 231 are the through roads. Lake Guntersville / the Tennessee River is the water. Madison (Huntsville) is northwest. Jackson (Scottsboro) is north. DeKalb (Fort Payne) is east. Etowah (Gadsden) is southeast. Blount is south. Cullman is southwest — Arab’s edge. Morgan is west. Staff who paste an Albertville mill onto Blount Avenue as the hall, or treat NASA Marshall as this county, or file “Marshall, Tennessee,” are on the wrong county.
How a Guntersville public finds the Marshall desk
The courthouse sits at 424 Blount Avenue, Guntersville, AL 35976 (marshallal.gov and marshall.alacourt.gov). Circuit Clerk / Absentee: 424 Blount Avenue, Suite 201. Albertville satellite court: 133 South Emmett Street — not the hall. Board of Registrars: 424 Blount Avenue, Suite 106A. Probate: 425 Gunter Avenue, Suite 110. Sheriff headquarters and Jail: 423 Blount Avenue, Guntersville, AL 35976 (marshallso.org and SOS). Confirm live addresses on those doors. A student who only knows an Albertville photograph as the hall has not found Guntersville.
423 Blount still jails. Albertville PD does not. Arab is on the Cullman edge.
Crime in unincorporated Marshall — Grant country, Douglas, Union Grove, the lake remainder outside city limits — is this Sheriff. Crime in Guntersville is often Guntersville Police. Crime in Albertville is often Albertville Police. Crime in Boaz is often Boaz Police. Crime in Arab is often Arab Police (and the Cullman line is a different count). This Sheriff is not Albertville PD. The Marshall County Jail at 423 Blount Avenue is this Sheriff’s house under § 14-6-1. The Sheriff’s own corrections page says the house holds pre-sentenced and sentenced people in Guntersville. It is not a Warden-department split. It is not NASA. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Albertville City Hall or to Madison County’s rocket campus. Civil process and court security at 424 Blount are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at the lake. Remedy for Albertville Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when the lake comes up is this count first.
Care without inventing a lake chapel as this county
A peace order served in Grant. A transport from 423 Blount to 424 Blount without becoming Albertville Police. Do not invent a church. Do not invent a marina as this badge.
What a Tennessee River lake county actually watches
Court calendar on Blount Avenue. A wreck on U.S. 431. High water on Lake Guntersville. Fog toward Grant. A night road outside Douglas. Coordination with Guntersville PD, Albertville PD, Boaz PD, Arab PD, and ALEA without becoming those departments. Coordination with Madison’s Sheriff or Etowah’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. An Albertville photograph does not steal the seat. NASA Marshall remains Madison County. Montgomery remains the capital.
Guntersville snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Guntersville · Large city (not the hall): Albertville · Not the hall: Boaz · Arab (Cullman edge) · Capital of Alabama: Montgomery
- Government: four Commissioners by district · Chairman at-large · court 424 Blount Avenue
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · patrol and detention at 423 Blount Avenue
- Satellite court (not the hall): 133 South Emmett Street, Albertville
- Neighbors: Madison · Jackson · DeKalb · Etowah · Blount · Cullman · Morgan
- Not Albertville as the hall · Not NASA Marshall (Madison County) · Not Marshall, Tennessee
What Guntersville is not, as this county
- Not Albertville as the county government. Not Boaz as the hall. Not Arab as the hall.
- Not NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. That campus is Madison County.
- Not Marshall County, Tennessee. Not Marshall, Kentucky. Not Marshall, Indiana.
- Not Albertville Police as this Sheriff. Not the capital.
- Not a campaign flyer.