Maury City is a town in Crockett County, Tennessee. Maury City is named for congressman and state legislator Abram Poindexter Maury (1801–1848). The city incorporated in 1911. Charles P. Roland, historian of the Civil War and the American South, was born in Maury City in 1918. His father, Clifford Paul Roland, was a schoolteacher in Maury City. Maury City is located at the intersection of State Route 88 and State Route 189, northwest of Jackson and southeast of Dyersburg. SR 88 connects the city with U.S. Route 412 and Alamo to the east, and with the Halls area to the west. SR 189 connects Maury City with Friendship to the north.