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Jackson County, Ohio

69 topographic sheets and 17 fire insurance atlases across 3 places.

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From the record

10 National Register listings · 59 businesses named in the fire insurance atlases from 1888 to 1921 · the 1900 county history tells 1 stories and names 4 people · people the book names include Chas. A. Lackey (Jackson Township, 1900) (machine-read).

Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the National Register database, National Park Service

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What the record shows

  • 3 places in this county were surveyed for fire insurance: Jackson, Wellston, Oak Hill, between 1886 and 1946.
  • 17 fire insurance atlas(es) survive for the county. Topographic coverage is national; fire insurance survey reached only incorporated places with something worth insuring.
  • 773 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
  • 10 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places, including 3 covered bridges, 3 houses and farms.
  • 5 of the 10 listings were added during the 1970s.
  • The Geographic Names Information System records 64 populated places in this county; 0 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.
  • 5 public-domain county histories, 1900 to 1916, supply 381,306 words of narrative reproduced here in full.

What happened here

1 accounts

A captivity, a drowning, a famine, a man scalped clearing his lot in 1789. These are passages from A History of Jackson County, Ohio, written while people who remembered the events were still alive, and each one opens the section it comes from.

1900, Jackson Township

Economic Value

The Portsmouth shales form the basis of the extensive paving brick industry in the vicinity of Portsmouth and Sciotoville. The quantity of suitable material in these beds is practically unlimited, as the shales have been attacked only at a few places along the outcrop. At present the mining is confined to blasting the shales from the sides of the hills, or to working the beds by short entries.

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Photographs

40 photographs, 1936

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Kitchen table seen through window of rehabilitation client's home, Jackson County, Ohio
Kitchen table seen through window of rehabilitation client's home, Jackson County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Neglected horse owned by rehabilitation client, Jackson County, Ohio
Neglected horse owned by rehabilitation client, Jackson County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Jefferson furnace-made iron for "Monitor" in Civil War, not far from Jackson, Ohio
Jefferson furnace-made iron for "Monitor" in Civil War, not far from Jackson, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Part of family of rehabilitation client, Jackson County, Ohio
Part of family of rehabilitation client, Jackson County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Resettlement Administration representative at door of rehabilitation client's house, Jackson County, Ohio
Resettlement Administration representative at door of rehabilitation client's house, Jackson County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Rehabilitation client looking over farm implements, Jackson, Ohio
Rehabilitation client looking over farm implements, Jackson, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Resettlement Administration representative at door of rehabilitation client's house, Jackson County, Ohio
Resettlement Administration representative at door of rehabilitation client's house, Jackson County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Interior of rehabilitation client's cabin, Jackson, Ohio
Interior of rehabilitation client's cabin, Jackson, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Iron furnace in Jackson, Ohio
Iron furnace in Jackson, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Kids, Jackson, Ohio
Kids, Jackson, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Interior of rehabilitation client's house, Jackson, Ohio
Interior of rehabilitation client's house, Jackson, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Well, common source of water supply, Jackson, Ohio
Well, common source of water supply, Jackson, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Farm Bureau Cooperative Association, Jackson, Ohio
Farm Bureau Cooperative Association, Jackson, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Iron furnace in Jackson, Ohio
Iron furnace in Jackson, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Child of rehabilitation client, Jackson County, Ohio
Child of rehabilitation client, Jackson County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Resettlement Administration representative at door of rehabilitation client's house, Jackson County, Ohio
Resettlement Administration representative at door of rehabilitation client's house, Jackson County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Sunday dinner, Jackson, Ohio
Sunday dinner, Jackson, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Rehabilitation client worrying over his accounts, Jackson County, Ohio
Rehabilitation client worrying over his accounts, Jackson County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Street scene, Saturday afternoon in Jackson, Ohio
Street scene, Saturday afternoon in Jackson, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Street scene, Saturday afternoon in Jackson, Ohio
Street scene, Saturday afternoon in Jackson, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Jefferson furnace-made iron for "Monitor" in Civil War, not far from Jackson, Ohio
Jefferson furnace-made iron for "Monitor" in Civil War, not far from Jackson, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Newsboys, Jackson, Ohio
Newsboys, Jackson, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Street scene, Saturday afternoon in Jackson, Ohio
Street scene, Saturday afternoon in Jackson, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Part of family of rehabilitation client, Jackson County, Ohio
Part of family of rehabilitation client, Jackson County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Resettlement Administration representative at door of rehabilitation client's house, Jackson County, Ohio
Resettlement Administration representative at door of rehabilitation client's house, Jackson County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Gravestones and monument in dealer's window, Jackson, Ohio
Gravestones and monument in dealer's window, Jackson, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Children playing in junk pile, Jackson, Ohio
Children playing in junk pile, Jackson, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Child of rehabilitation client, Jackson County, Ohio
Child of rehabilitation client, Jackson County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Rehabilitation client worrying over his accounts, Jackson County, Ohio
Rehabilitation client worrying over his accounts, Jackson County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Interior of rehabilitation client's house, Jackson, Ohio
Interior of rehabilitation client's house, Jackson, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Abandoned brick factory, not far from Jackson, Ohio
Abandoned brick factory, not far from Jackson, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Part of family of rehabilitation client, Jackson County, Ohio
Part of family of rehabilitation client, Jackson County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Newsboys, Jackson, Ohio
Newsboys, Jackson, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Street scene, Saturday afternoon in Jackson, Ohio
Street scene, Saturday afternoon in Jackson, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Rehabilitation client worrying over his accounts, Jackson County, Ohio
Rehabilitation client worrying over his accounts, Jackson County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Rehabilitation client worrying over his accounts, Jackson County, Ohio
Rehabilitation client worrying over his accounts, Jackson County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Child of rehabilitation client, Jackson County, Ohio
Child of rehabilitation client, Jackson County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Neglected horse owned by rehabilitation client, Jackson County, Ohio
Neglected horse owned by rehabilitation client, Jackson County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Rehabilitation client worrying over his accounts, Jackson County, Ohio
Rehabilitation client worrying over his accounts, Jackson County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Farm Bureau Cooperative Association, Jackson, Ohio
Farm Bureau Cooperative Association, Jackson, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress

Places on the National Register

10

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Photograph PropertyType ListedReference
Buckeye Furnace Covered Bridgestructure197575001442
Byer Covered Bridgestructure197575001441
Clutts Housebuilding198080003105
Gibson Housebuilding198585003045
Johnson Road Covered Bridgestructure198484003749
Miner's Supply Storebuilding197777001069
Morgan Mansionbuilding197979001867
Oak Hill Welsh Congregational Churchbuilding197878002090
Scioto Grange No. 1234building200505000030
Wells, Harvey, Housebuilding200909000211

Covered bridges

3

Jackson County holds 3 covered bridges on the National Register, more than any other property type here. Each is a listed structure with a federal nomination on file.

Buckeye Furnace Covered BridgeListed 1975, 0 map sheets show this crossing
Byer Covered BridgeListed 1975, 0 map sheets show this crossing
Johnson Road Covered BridgeListed 1984, 0 map sheets show this crossing

Bird's-eye views and land ownership maps

5

Drawn when these were printed as single large sheets: the town seen from the air, and the county divided into its farms with every owner named. Each opens the original at the Library of Congress.

Bird's-eye view, 1899 - Woodsfield, Monroe County, Ohio, 1899
Bird's-eye view (1899) - Woodsfield, Monroe County, Ohio, 1899. Library of Congress.
Land ownership map, 1905 - Atlas and directory of Paulding County, Ohio : containing maps of Paulding County, townships, and incorporated villages, also maps of the United States and state of Ohio : together with an outline map of Paulding County, showing location of townships, villages, roads, railroads, pikes, principal streams, etc., etc., etc
Land ownership map (1905) - Atlas and directory of Paulding County, Ohio : containing maps of Paulding County, townships, and incorporated villages, also maps of the United States and state of Ohio : together with an outline map of Paulding County, showing location of townships, villages, roads, railroads, pikes, principal streams, etc., etc., etc. Library of Congress.
Land ownership map, 1856 - Map of Hamilton County, Ohio : exhibiting the various divisions and sub divisions of land with the name of the owners & number of acres in each tract together with the roads, canals, streams, towns &c. throughout the county
Land ownership map (1856) - Map of Hamilton County, Ohio : exhibiting the various divisions and sub divisions of land with the name of the owners & number of acres in each tract together with the roads, canals, streams, towns &c. throughout the county. Library of Congress.
Land ownership map, 1869 - Map of Monroe County, Ohio
Land ownership map (1869) - Map of Monroe County, Ohio. Library of Congress.
Land ownership map, 1889 - Bryan's new map of the City of Portsmouth and part of Clay Township Scioto Co., Ohio
Land ownership map (1889) - Bryan's new map of the City of Portsmouth and part of Clay Township Scioto Co., Ohio. Library of Congress.

Photographs from libraries nationwide

4 shown

Selected from the Digital Public Library of America's 4 image records catalogued for this county. Every one shown here carries a public-domain status or a licence that permits reuse on a site that carries advertising; non-commercial, share-alike and restricted images are excluded. The selection is spread across the county's towns (at most eight per town), so no single institution's bulk upload crowds out the rest. Each opens the holding library's record, and the complete set at the Digital Public Library of America is one click away.

Aerial view of Business section, Jackson, Ohio, Boston Public Library - undated
Aerial view of Business section, Jackson, Ohio. Boston Public Library, via the Digital Public Library of America.
Lake Jackson, Oak Hill, Ohio, Boston Public Library - undated
Lake Jackson, Oak Hill, Ohio. Boston Public Library, via the Digital Public Library of America.
Jackson County Apples, Boston Public Library - undated
Jackson County Apples. Boston Public Library, via the Digital Public Library of America.
Holly Hill Motel, located on Route 35 in Jackson, Ohio, Boston Public Library - undated
Holly Hill Motel, located on Route 35 in Jackson, Ohio. Boston Public Library, via the Digital Public Library of America.

The county from the air

16 of 492 shown

Flown by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1937 and 1989, the Aerial Photo Single Frames collection is the definitive mid-century view of the land: fields, roads and rivers as the camera saw them. 492 frames touch this county; the selection below spreads across the decades of flights (at most four per year), so one flight cannot crowd out the rest. The full set is free to browse and download at EarthExplorer under the dataset Aerial Photo Single Frames.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1956-05-18, scale 1:30000
1956-05-18, scale 1:30000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1956-05-18, scale 1:30000
1956-05-18, scale 1:30000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1956-05-18, scale 1:30000
1956-05-18, scale 1:30000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1956-05-18, scale 1:30000
1956-05-18, scale 1:30000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-04-22, scale 1:28000
1960-04-22, scale 1:28000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-04-22, scale 1:28000
1960-04-22, scale 1:28000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-04-22, scale 1:28000
1960-04-22, scale 1:28000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-04-22, scale 1:28000
1960-04-22, scale 1:28000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-04-16, scale 1:99228
1971-04-16, scale 1:99228. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-04-16, scale 1:99228
1971-04-16, scale 1:99228. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-04-16, scale 1:101580
1971-04-16, scale 1:101580. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-04-16, scale 1:101580
1971-04-16, scale 1:101580. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-04-06, scale 1:78000
1975-04-06, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-04-06, scale 1:78000
1975-04-06, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-04-06, scale 1:78000
1975-04-06, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-04-06, scale 1:78000
1975-04-06, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

City directories

2 volumes

The "who lived here, by year" answer: pre-1929 public-domain directory volumes naming the county's people, machine-read and searchable as text.

Weather records

8 stations, 8 gages

The thermometers that kept this county's weather, and the gages that watched its rivers, as the federal records hold them. The extremes below are measured values from those records, not estimates.

The 1950 census, district by district

37 districts

Who lived here in 1950, one enumeration district at a time, as the Census Bureau described each district. Each row opens its official National Archives result, with Population Schedules and ED Maps available there.

  • 40-1Bloomfield township
  • 40-2Coal township: Coalton village
  • 40-3Coal township - That part outside Coalton village
  • 40-4Franklin township
  • 40-5Hamilton township
  • 40-6Jackson township
  • 40-7Oak Hill village, comprising parts of Jefferson and Madison townships: Oak Hill village - That part in Jefferson township
  • 40-8Oak Hill village - That part in Madison township
  • 40-9Jefferson township, outside Oak Hill village Jefferson township - That part north of State Hwy. 279, outside Oak Hill village
  • 40-10Jefferson township - That part south of State Hwy. 279, outside Oak Hill village (Remainder of Jefferson township is in Oak Hill village)
  • 40-11Liberty township: Liberty township - That part north of the section line from the northeast corner of Section 24, Township 7, Range 19 to the northwest corner of Section 24, Township 7, Range 20
  • 40-12Liberty township - That part south of the section line from the northeast corner of Section 24, Township 7, Range 19 to the northwest corner of Section 24, Township 7, Range 20
  • 40-13Lick township: Jackson city: Jackson city - That part of Ward 1 Bounded by South, Church, Pearl, South; East Main; City limits; Burlington, Huron, Dickson
  • 40-14Jackson city - That part of Ward 1 Bounded by South, Portsmouth, Pearl; Church, South, Dickason, Huron, Burlington; City limits; High
  • 40-15Jackson city - That part of Ward 2 Bounded by City limits; City limits, Ward line; Ward line, Locust, Pearl; Bridge, Chillicothe
  • 40-16Jackson city - That part of Ward 2 Bounded by City limits; Chillicothe; Wood Ave.; City limits
  • 40-17Jackson city - That part of Ward 2 Bounded by Wood Ave.; Chillicothe, Bridge; State; High
  • 40-18Jackson city - That part of Ward 3 Bounded by Ward line, City limits; City limits; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Harding Ave., Pearl; Locust, Ward line
  • 40-19Jackson city - That part of Ward 3 Bounded by Harding Ave., Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; City limits; City limits; East Main, South, Pearl
  • 40-20Jackson city - That part of Ward 4 Bounded by State, Bridge; Pearl, Portsmouth; South; High
  • 40-21Jackson city - That part of Ward 4 Bounded by Wood Ave.; High; State; City limits
  • 40-22Jackson city - That part of Ward 4 Bounded by State; High; City limits; City limits
  • 40-23Lick township - That part outside Jackson city
  • 40-24Madison township - That part outside Oak Hill village (Remainder of Madison township is in Oak Hill village)
  • 40-25Milton township
  • 40-26Scioto township: Scioto township - That part southeast of State Hwy. 776
  • 40-27Scioto township - That part northwest of State Hwy. 776
  • 40-28Washington township
  • 40-29Wellston township, coextensive with Wellston city: Wellston city - That part of Ward 1 Bounded by City limits; City limits; Second, Massachusetts Ave., B; Railroad Ave., Ward line
  • 40-30Wellston city - That part of Ward 1 Bounded by B, Massachusetts Ave., Second; City limits; Ward line, 5th, Connecticut Ave., 4th; Railroad Ave.
  • 40-31Wellston city - That part of Ward 2 Bounded by City limits; Ward line, Railroad Ave.; Broadway; City limits
  • 40-32Wellston city - That part of Ward 2 Bounded by Broadway; Wisconsin Ave., 4th, Missouri Ave.; Ward line; City limits
  • 40-33Wellston city - That part of Ward 2 Bounded by Broadway; Railroad Ave.; 11th; Missouri Ave., 4th, Wisconsin Ave.
  • 40-34Wellston city - That part of Ward 3 Bounded by 4th, Connecticut Ave., 5th, Ward line; City limits; Ward line; Massachusetts Ave.
  • 40-35Wellston city - That part of Ward 3 Bounded by 4th; Massachusetts Ave.; Ward line; Railroad Ave.
  • 40-36Wellston city - That part of Ward 4 Bounded by Ward line; City limits; City limits; Pennsylvania Ave.
  • 40-37Wellston city - That part of Ward 4 Bounded by Ward line, 11th; Railroad Ave., Ward line, Pennsylvania Ave.; City limits; City limits

Businesses named in the atlases

59 businesses

Every Sanborn volume opens with a printed index naming the town's mills, tanneries, hotels and works by proprietor. Those indexes were read off the scanned sheets by machine and then matched to each other, so a business surveyed four times appears here once, with the years it survived. 15 of these 59 were named in more than one atlas. Each carries a crop of the line it was read from: the spelling is the recogniser's and the 1880s lithographer's, and the scan behind it is the proof.

Wildfire, 1994 to 2020

232 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 232 of them, burning about 921 acres. 2 started naturally and 22 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning119
Missing data/not specified/undetermined67
Arson/incendiarism22
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1

The five largest, by the area the report gives. Three of them were set deliberately.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
12 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined128 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesJACKSON FURNACE
13 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 November 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined72 acresWayne National ForestDIAMOND HOLLOW
7 November 1994Arson/incendiarism35 acresWayne National Forestnot named
26 October 2012Arson/incendiarism35 acresWayne National ForestOLD CROW
8 February 2015Arson/incendiarism27 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources221
17 April 2016Debris and open burning26 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4571
1 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

Storms, 1965 to 2026

60 of 258 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 258 reports for this county, causing 0 deaths, 4 injuries and about $20,244,000 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event Reports
Thunderstorm Wind134
Hail62
Flash Flood31
Flood20
Tornado6
Heavy Rain4
Funnel Cloud1

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWellston3 hurt, $500,000A three story building under contruction was destroyed. Three men of the building crew were injured as the building collapsed on them.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWellington1 hurt, $5,000A tree fell onto a car along Route 93. The driver was trapped and injured.
May 2011Flash FloodRay$8,000,000The emergency manager summed the event by saying, we had roads, bridges, culverts, everything with high water, and so many responders in rescue boats.||The Little Salt Creek basin was hard hit around the town of Jackson. Several homes were surrounded by water knee deep in the town of Jackson, plus in the villages of Oak Hill and Coalton. Basements were flooded. One resident had 3 feet of mud in their basement, saying, it occurred all in just 10 minutes. The resident said they had seen flooding, but nothing like this. Firefighters and deputy sheriffs evacuated about 100 people from their homes. One hard hit area was an apartment complex on Huron Street in the town of Jackson. One resident said, it got into our home very fast, flooded our vehicles, and we had no way out.' A number of folks were stranded in flooded vehicles too. The county reported over 65 water rescues. Temporary shelters were opened at the Oak Hill firehouse and a church in Jackson. The state of Ohio reported 40 homes had major damage and 35 homes had minor damage. Eleven businesses had minor damage.
March 1997Flash FloodCountywide$3,500,000no account filed
June 1980Tornado (F1)not stated$2,500,000no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindJackson$1,500,000Scattered locations throughout the county had large trees and branches blown down. Around 8,000 customers lost electric power. Even a nursing home facility did not have power restored until 4 days after the storm.||Damage assessment across the county included 2 homes destroyed and 2 with major damage. The public infrastructure damage assessment was around $600.000.
July 2015Flash FloodWellington$800,000Many roads became impassable. Water rescues from vehicles occurred around the communities of Coalton and Oak Hil. Evacuations occurred in the town of Jackson. Water collected in yards and around homes. Most of the damage reported to the county involved its road system. A few small roads had culverts washed out. Some of the flooded streams included Salt Lick and Four Mile.
June 1998Flash FloodNorth Portion$450,000no account filed
May 2012Flash FloodGrahamsville$250,000Many roads were impassible. Several water rescues occurred from stalled vehicles. A woman was stranded in a park by high water and was rescued by boat. Businesses in the community of Jackson saw urban runoff get inside. This included the state motor vehicle registration building on Huron Street. Condominiums were also flooded on Huron Street.
July 1992Tornado (F0)not stated$250,000no account filed
April 2015Thunderstorm WindOak Hill$200,000Barns and shell storage buildings with corrugated metal roofing were damaged. One side of a slanted roof to a cinder block building was blown off. The damage was east of Oak Hill, along Moriah Road and Route 279. Power poles were also brought down by fallen trees.
May 2001Flash FloodJackson$200,000The sheriff reported 20 roads flooded by small streams. A 300 acre freshwater impoundment near Oak Hill spilled over the dam, taking some rocks with it. Water came through the emergency spillway as it was designed. About 160 tons of limestone was trucked in, to reinforce the 15 foot dam. A state official said, "it was a catastrophic rainfall."
May 1998Thunderstorm WindJackson$200,000no account filed
June 2018Tornado (EF0)Evans Arpt$150,000An EF0 tornado, with a maximum estimated wind speed of 85 mph, touched down across the northern portion of James A. Rhodes Airport near Jackson. It damaged a hanger, including bending some of the metal roof and an overhead door. One single engine aircraft was pushed 30 feet and flipped onto a car, and another was pushed about 60 feet and suffered a landing gear collapse. Several large trees were also snapped. Several videos of the tornado were recorded by bystanders.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindOak Hill$150,000Numerous locations in Jefferson Township had uprooted trees or the tops of the trees snapped off. Funneling of the wind through the valleys exposed to the northwest, or across nearby open areas, enhanced the wind. From the damage surveyed, gusts were estimated between 60 and 70 mph by the National Weather Service survey team. One concentration of tree damage was near the intersection of Four Mile Road and Dark Hollow Road. Another area of tree damage was along Dan Davis Road near Hewitt Run. At one resident's home along Dan Davis Road, fallen trees damaged their pickup truck and car. Along Franklin Valley Road, a resident's flag pole was bent by the wind, while a flag was flying. At least one home along Jackson Lake State Reserve was damaged by fallen trees.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindJackson$100,000Trees were knocked down along Beaver Pike and around Hammertown Lake. Furniture blew through one window of a house. At least one house sustained roof damage.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindOak Hill$75,000A barn and outbuildings were damaged. A nearby roof to a home was damaged.
May 2010FloodOak Hill$75,000Numerous roads were flooded by overflowing streams. Some evacuations occurred in the headwater area of Symmes Creek in the Oak Hill vicinity.
June 2015Flash FloodLeo$50,000Water blocked and closed several roads in the county. Clay Banner Road was one example north of Oak Hill.
July 2003Flash FloodNorthwest Portion$50,000Rains of 2 to 3.5 inches fell from the community of Jackson on north, toward the Vinton County border. The cooperative observer at Jackson measured 3.3 inches of rain. Many roads were closed by overflowing streams. No reports of flooding in dwellings were received.
July 2000HailJackson$50,000The sheriff's department and the public both reported large hail that damaged a few vehicles.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindCountywide$50,000Trees downed in a number of locations, some on cars and powerlines.
April 1994Tornado (F0)Scioto Township$50,000A weak tornado touched down for a short time along route 32/124. One outbuilding was destroyed, roof damage occurred to several buildings and some trees were downed.
February 1993Thunderstorm WindJackson$50,000Trees were blown across power lines, onto the roof of homes and across one car. The windows were blown out of several homes.
February 2000Flash FloodCountywide$50,000no account filed
May 1998HailJackson$50,000no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindWinchester$50,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindJackson 2 S$50,000no account filed
January 1998Flash FloodCountywide$40,000no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindOak Hill$35,000A barn was destroyed along Moriah Road.
May 2024Tornado (EF1)Jackson$30,000A tornado touched down near Mount Zion Road where some minor tree damage occurred and swirl patterns were found in a hay field. The tornado tracked northeastward across State Route 139 where tree damage occurred and an outbuilding was damaged. It continued to skip along causing intermittent tree damage in neighborhoods north of State Route 32. The tornado knocked a tree down onto a vehicle at Hope Haven School then snapped or uprooted several trees, some onto vehicles, behind Rowdy's Smokehouse. This is where the tornado reached maximum EF1 intensity with winds estimated up to 90 miles per hour. ||The tornado then crossed Main Street, ripped a portion of the roof of of the Tractor Supply building, flipped over a parked semi trailer in the parking lot and then caused roof damage to buildings in the Senior Village. Some minor tree damage was then noted to the east of US-35 along Pattonsville Road where the tornado path ended.||This was the 8th known tornado in Jackson County and the 2nd so far this year.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindJackson$25,000Multiple trees were blown down in the town of Jackson, some of which fell onto vehicles. Structural damage to commercial and residential buildings were observed, including roof damage in the southern part of the city along and near Route 93, just north of Route 124.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindOak Hill$25,000Several trees were blown over or snapped. A horse trailer was flipped over. A barn was damaged. Winds gusts of around 75 mph were estimated.
May 1998HailJackson$25,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindJackson$20,000Numerous areas of damage were observed along Route 124 in the vicinity of a hospital south of the town of Jackson. The damage included numerous downed trees and power lines, sections of roofs peeled off, and semi-trucks that were flipped over.
April 2024Tornado (EF2)Leo$20,000A tornado formed along Erwin Hollow Road where several hardwood trees were snapped and uprooted. The tornado then moved northeast over a thick forest of mixed pine and hardwood trees between Erwin Hollow Road and Roberts Road where drone footage showed an extensive area of leveled hardwood trees and EF2 intensity was obtained. The drone footage and ground surveys then showed that the tornado weakened and the path became intermittent as it crossed Roberts Road, where a house was damaged when a tree fell on it. The last damage was noted along Oakland Road where several large pine trees were uprooted or snapped.
June 2010Flash FloodByer$20,000The northbound lanes of Route 327 collapsed over a culvert that is in the Pigeon Creek basin.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindEvans Arpt$20,000Trees fell onto power lines and across several roads.
May 2011HailOak Hill$20,000no account filed
May 2011HailOak Hill$20,000no account filed
May 2011HailJackson$20,000no account filed
April 2019Thunderstorm WindEvans Arpt$15,000Trees and power lines were blown down along State Routes 139 and 279. Also, the roof was blown off of an open-sided machine shed near Winchester.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHitchcock$15,000Numerous trees were blown down around Oak Hill.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindJackson Rhodes Arpt$15,000Multiple trees were knocked down.
May 2006Heavy RainJackson$15,000Localized rains of 2 to 3 inches likely fell in about 2 hours from a small cluster of training thunderstorms. Street flooding occurred from full culverts and drainage pipes. Water damaged carpet at the middle school.
February 2000Flash FloodCountywide$15,000Several creeks overflowed and flooded roads. One person's vehicle was washed off Route 139 by Holland's Fork. The occupant had to swim to safety.
July 2000Flash FloodJackson$15,000Rains of 2 to 3 inches in less than 3 hours caused basement flooding in the town of Jackson and caused streams to block roads in Madison Township.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindWellston$15,000Numerous trees were blown down.
May 1998HailWellston$15,000Nickel size hail fell along Buckeye Furnace road.
May 2011HailOak Hill$15,000no account filed
July 2016Flash FloodHamden$10,000Sections of pavement were washed off of Lesmil Road near the Jackson County and Vinton County line. A car was also stranded in high water along Lesmil Road.
July 2015Flash FloodJackson$10,000Streams overflowed onto roads. In addition, urban street flooding occurred.
April 2015HailHitchcock$10,000Hail as large as golf balls fell.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindDavisville$10,000A path of wind damage occurred in Coalton. The peak wind gust was estimated at 65 to 70 mph by a National Weather Survey team. The path started around the intersection of Route 93 and Wellston Street, then went northeast across Railroad and Exline Streets. The quarter mile path ended around O'Neal and Tank Hill Streets. A few large trees were uprooted. Several tree trunks 6 to 12 inches in diameter were snapped. A few structures had minor roof damage from falling branches.
April 2014FloodJackson$10,000Several roads were closed by stream flooding, mostly in the eastern part of the county. A few examples were Keystone Furnace Road, Antioch Road, Moriah Road, and Cherry Fork Road. No structures were flooded.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindJackson$10,000Trees were blown down. Some power lines were also knocked down by the falling trees.
August 2010Flash FloodJackson$10,000Small streams overflowed and blocked roads from the city of Jackson on into rural areas north and east of town.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindOak Hill$10,000A roof was torn off a barn along Plum Road, east of Rempel.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindOak Hill$10,000The sheriff reported trees and power lines were knocked down.
March 2008FloodLeo$10,000no account filed

Mines and quarries

15 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 15 workings inside this county. 5 still produce and 10 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity Workings
Fire Clay (Refractory)4
Stone, Crushed/Broken3
Limestone, General2
Clay2
Sand and Gravel, Construction2
Aluminum, Titanium, Silica, Iron1
Chromium1

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clarion ClayAluminum, Titanium, Silica, IronOccurrence
Davis Refractories/ Jackson, OhioChromiumUnknown
Cedar Heights Clay PitsClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Cedar Heights Clay PitsClayProducer
Comer QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Comer Quarry and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oak Hill QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Zoar Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Jackson County Hwy Dept.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Oak Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Zoar Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
A.P. Green Refractories Co. PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Cambria Clay Brick Plant #5Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Davis Brick Plant #2Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Durex MillFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Collected here, 1878 to 1975

8 of 1,496 shown

Museum specimens collected inside this county and catalogued with a date and a place: 1,496 of them, by kingdom 709 animalia, 616 plantae, 165 fungi, 3 unrecorded, 3 protozoa. Each is a physical object in a named collection, not a sighting. Held by NY, MSU, Ohio State University - Fish Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), F, CINC, Ohio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) among others, and each settlement page carries the specimens collected near it.

The oldest of them. A specimen proves something was collected on that day; its absence proves nothing.

Photograph YearSpecies KingdomWhere CollectorCatalogue
A photograph of the species Houstonia caerulea, not of this specimen1878Houstonia caerulea L.PlantaeHamdenGuttenberg, G.CM CM364596
A photograph of the species Krigia biflora, not of this specimen1878Krigia biflora (Walter) S.F.BlakePlantaeHamdenGuttenberg, G.CM CM402119
A photograph of the species Luzula multiflora, not of this specimen1878Luzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej.PlantaeHamdenNoneCM CM423828
A photograph of the species Plantago lanceolata, not of this specimen1878Plantago lanceolata L.PlantaeHamdenGuttenberg, G.CM CM153741
A photograph of the species Ardea herodias, not of this specimen1899Ardea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 1758Animalianear South Webster, Jackson, Ohio, USAHenninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Ohio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) OSUM Birds B 5621
A photograph of the species Rorippa Scop., not of this specimen1905Rorippa Scop.Plantae3 mi south of JacksonF. BartleyNY 2406707
A photograph of the species Coleosporium solidaginis, not of this specimen1915Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.FungiJacksonHedgcock G. G.BPI BPI 137582
A photograph of the species Trametes robiniophila, not of this specimen1916Trametes robiniophila MurrillFungiCoaltonMCCLEDROTLE G. A.?BPI BPI 248557

The townships, in 1900

381,306 words

A History of Jackson County, Ohio devotes a chapter to each township: its boundaries and streams, who settled it and when, the mills, the schools and the churches. All 3 are reproduced here in full. Each row shows the township's own shape and where it lies in the county, drawn from the Census Bureau's boundary. Which settlements belong to which township is computed from that same boundary, not taken from the book.

The people it describes

4 named

Everyone A History of Jackson County, Ohio stops to write about, with the section that describes them. Among them are the men who founded the place and governed the Territory. Each name opens the passage itself, in the words of 1900.

Every populated place in the county

64

Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the watercourse or landform it stands on and the survey quadrangle it falls on. The 3 places that were also surveyed for fire insurance come first, with the number of atlases and photographs held for them.

Recorded here

Jackson, Ohio

14 topographic sheets and 7 fire insurance atlases, 1886 to 1946

Wellston, Ohio

14 topographic sheets and 7 fire insurance atlases, 1888 to 1921

Oak Hill, Ohio

10 topographic sheets and 3 fire insurance atlases, 1921 to 1940

Everything this county holds

The complete index, with nothing left out. Each of these is a separate record with its own page: a federal survey report, or the case file that argued a property on to the National Register. Both are public domain and reproduced word for word.

Surveyed structures

2 structures

Nomination case files

10 case files

The vanished settlements of Jackson County, the places these records name that are no longer on the map.

Provenance

  • Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
  • Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
  • Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.