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Jackson County, Ohio

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41newspaper titles
4digitized titles
14historic places
1847earliest paper
1816formed
32,653pop. 2020
118cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 41 newspaper titles published in Jackson County, Ohio, with the earliest starting in 1847. 4 of these titles have digitized pages on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 14 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near Wellston, Jackson, Coalton.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Jackson

Library of Congress
41 newspaper titles
TitlePlaceYears
The Jackson Standard DigitizedJackson, Jackson Court House1847–1888
The Jackson Standard DigitizedJackson, Jackson Court House1847–?
Iron Valley ExpressJackson, Jackson Court House1857–1861
Young AmericaJackson1858–1858
The Jackson ExpressJackson Court House1862–1864
The Democratic HeraldJackson Court House, Jackson1866–1868
The Jackson HeraldJackson1868–1898
The Jackson Daily Standard DigitizedJackson1873–1889
The Jackson Daily Standard DigitizedJackson1873–?
The Jackson JournalJackson1882–1888
Wellston ArgusWellston1883–1888
Jackson Standard-JournalJackson1888–1925
The Jackson SunJackson1889–1901
The Wellston SentinelWellston1889–1898
The TelegramWellston1890–1899
The Wellston TelegramWellston1890–1982
The Semi-Weekly HeraldJackson1898–1902
The SentinelWellston1898–1900
The Jackson-Vinton Journal-HeraldJackson1900–1997
The Wellston SentinelWellston1900–1921
Daily SentinelWellston1901–1902
Jackson Daily NewsJackson1901–1901
Jackson Daily SunJackson1901–1999
The Semi-Weekly SunJackson1901–1918
The Jackson HeraldJackson1902–1974
Wellston Daily SentinelWellston1902–1903
The Daily SentinelWellston1903–1906
The Daily TelegramWellston1905–1905
The Wellston SentinelWellston1906–1907
The Daily SentinelWellston1907–1949
The Oak Hill PressOak Hill1907–1974
The Jackson SunJackson1918–1925
The Gospel MessengerJackson, Ironton1922–1999
The Jackson Sun-JournalJackson1925–1974
News-AdvertiserJackson1932–1941
The Wellston SentinelWellston1940–1966
The SentinelWellston1966–1971
The Wellston SentryWellston1971–?
The Journal-HeraldJackson1974–?
The TelegramWellston1982–1988
The Wellston TelegramWellston1988–1996

Source: Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory. “Digitized” links lead to page images on Chronicling America.

Coverage timeline

Newspapers

Each bar is one title’s publication span. brown = digitized on Chronicling America Open-ended runs extend to today.

18401886193319792026

Sample front pages

Chronicling America

Digitized page-1 issues from papers published in Jackson. Thumbnails link to the Library of Congress.

Courtesy Library of Congress, Chronicling America. Page images are hotlinked from loc.gov; generally public domain / no known restrictions (U.S. papers older than 95 years are public domain in their entirety; newer issues may contain some copyrighted third-party material). Rights & access.

On this day

Front pages

No digitized front pages for Jackson were found on today’s month/day in the sampled years. Try the sample front pages above, or browse Chronicling America.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

8 of 14 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

14 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Battle of Berlin Heights Engagement SiteBerlin CrossroadsSite2018
Buckeye FurnaceJacksonDistrict1970
Buckeye Furnace Covered BridgeWellstonStructure1975
Byer Covered BridgeByerStructure1975
Clutts HouseWellstonBuilding1980
Gibson HouseJacksonBuilding1985
Johnson Road Covered BridgePetersburgStructure1984
Keystone FurnacePattonsvilleDistrict1982
Leo PetroglyphCoaltonSite1970
Miner's Supply StoreCoaltonBuilding1977
Morgan MansionWellstonBuilding1979
Oak Hill Welsh Congregational ChurchOak HillBuilding1978
Scioto Grange No. 1234JacksonBuilding2005
Wells, Harvey, HouseWellstonBuilding2009

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Jackson was formed in 1816 (1816-03-01) from Athens, Gallia, Ross, Scioto.

JACKSON created from ATHENS, GALLIA, ROSS, and SCIOTO.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Jackson County population from 1820 to 2020 (Census historical series).

34k19k3,7461820184018801920196020002020
182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
3,7469,74417,94123,68634,24827,34227,00427,76729,37230,59232,64132,653

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

118 cemeteries and 6 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 118 listed
NameLatLon
Antioch Cemetery38.95249-82.63151
Arthur Cemetery38.9295-82.57531
Baptist Cemetery39.08044-82.51901
Bethana Cemetery38.96618-82.48488
Bethel Cemetery39.06729-82.77239
Bethel Cemetery38.85312-82.5971
Bethesda Cemetery38.94423-82.45515
Bethesda Cemetery38.97479-82.77072
Bethlehem Cemetery38.96285-82.46154
Big Rock Cemetery39.09427-82.66535
Brady Cemetery38.94452-82.57857
Brocke Corner Cemetery39.19089-82.76183
Brown Cemetery38.95532-82.65751
Buckeye Cemetery39.00979-82.69405
Buckley Cemetery38.97364-82.58396
Byers Cemetery39.17645-82.62988
Calahan Cemetery38.93789-82.57967
Calvary Cemetery39.12645-82.5571
Campbell Cemetery39.07201-82.58071
Canter Cemetery38.88563-82.69241
Canter Cemetery38.90451-82.69572
Carmel Cemetery38.95423-82.46654
Cedar Cemetery39.01451-82.72766
Clay Cemetery38.93535-82.5646
Coalton Cemetery39.11423-82.61849
Comer Cemetery38.90542-82.6251
Congregational Cemetery38.89312-82.56016
Corinth Cemetery38.84998-82.46392
Crabtree Cemetery Number 138.99421-82.74404
Crosby Cemetery39.13118-82.6982
Culp Cemetery38.98985-82.72155
Davis Cemetery39.16423-82.73461
Dever Cemetery38.88165-82.74539
Dixon Run Cemetery38.99118-82.49627
Dole Cemetery39.20034-82.65099
Evergreen Cemetery39.1409-82.65183
Exline Cemetery39.09006-82.6321
Fairmount Cemetery39.05895-82.6221
Fourmile Cemetery38.9735-82.63413
Franklin Cemetery39.16062-82.57324
Franklin Cemetery38.96118-82.60044
Fraser Cemetery38.97762-82.53742
German Cemetery38.97979-82.75544
Glassburn Cemetery39.06284-82.69989
Glen Roy Cemetery39.1134-82.57266
Grahamsville Cemetery38.95507-82.71016
Hale Cemetery39.01507-82.57683
Harris Cemetery39.13395-82.68989
Hickman Cemetery39.16589-82.75544
Hill Cemetery38.9009-82.45265
Horeb Cemetery38.9009-82.61266
Horton Cemetery38.92507-82.64877
Jackson Furnace Cemetery38.85924-82.72577
Jacobs Cemetery38.97874-82.65934
Jenkins Cemetery38.93396-82.75376
Jenkins Cemetery38.93116-82.61376
Johnson Cemetery38.93118-82.59849
Keenan Cemetery39.07738-82.55109
Keeton Cemetery38.97283-82.44572
Keystone Cemetery39.01423-82.46015
Lackey Cemetery38.96395-82.4791
Landrum Cemetery39.09642-82.70225
Licks Cemetery39.10552-82.56274
Limerick Cemetery39.12673-82.74711
Lincoln Cemetery39.1284-82.46126
Mabee Cemetery38.91007-82.73878
Mackley Cemetery38.88908-82.58924
Madison Cemetery38.9404-82.51447
Marcum Cemetery38.97375-82.51661
Masters Cemetery38.98658-82.63229
Mathers Cemetery39.09867-82.65933
McCoy Cemetery38.91497-82.7071
McCulgan Cemetery38.8704-82.51171
McCune Cemetery39.09951-82.73655
McGee Cemetery39.05909-82.5425
McKitterick Cemetery38.90721-82.54169
McNeal Cemetery38.91257-82.57432
Monroe Cemetery38.86481-82.62914
Moriah Cemetery38.90812-82.51654
Mount Carmel Cemetery39.10645-82.45654
Historical populated places — 6 of 6
NameLatLon
Eastburn39.10424-82.75573
Latrobe39.07007-82.51405
Limestone38.9548-82.52905
Maple Grove39.10479-82.5735
McKitterick38.90924-82.54127
Morgantown39.1159-82.60183

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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