# Marshalltown

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #85,495

## Definitions
1. A city, the county seat of Marshall County, Iowa, United States. Originally named Marshall, after Marshall, Michigan.
2. An unincorporated community in Craig County, Virginia, United States.
3. A rural community of Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
4. A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, probably named after landowner Henry Brown Marshall.
5. Former name of Marshall, Victoria, Australia.

## Etymology
From Marshall + town.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/marshalltown