Jacksonville, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Meigs Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45660. It stands on Bundle Run. The Survey maps it on the Peebles quadrangle.
Then and now
1916 to 1991The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1916 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:62500
- 1918 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:62500
- 1918 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
4,078 words on this townshipA History of Adams County, Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth .., published 1900 names this settlement in its chapter on Meigs Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Jacksonville, on the Limestone and Chillicothe turnpike at the top of Brush Creek hill, was laid out by William Thomas in 1815, and named in honor of "Old Hickory," then the military hero of the country. A postoffice was established there about the above date with James Dunbar as postmaster. The postoffice was discontinued in 1827, but afterward re-established and called Dunbarton. The village is now rapidly dieclining in population and commercial importance frc^n its proximity to the new town of Peebles, on the C. P. & V. Railroad.
Passage source: A History of Adams County, Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth .., published 1900.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Meigs Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.
Fires near this place
38 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Jacksonville between 2003 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15275 |
| 26 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15274 |
| 26 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8725 |
| 20 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15229 |
| 26 May 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4387 |
| 6 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 19 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 1,405 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,405 specimens collected within 10 miles of Jacksonville between 1866 and 1975: 560 Fungi, 493 Animalia, 318 Plantae, 34 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. Braun, A. Cronquist and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Puccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel | 1879 | A. B. Seymour | Adams County |
![]() | Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn. | 1900 | W.A. Kellerman | Mineral Springs |
![]() | Puccinia smilacis Schwein. | 1900 | W.A. Kellerman | |
![]() | Asplenium ruta-muraria L. | 1866 | C. B. Dyer | |
![]() | Pleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt | 1866 | C. B. Dyer | |
![]() | Stigmella platani Fuckel | 1892 | Kellerman W. A. | Mineral Springs |
![]() | Phyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel | 1900 | Kern W. A. | Mineral Springs |
![]() | Acroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 1991 | 1925 | Clarence H. Kennedy | |
![]() | Baeomyces byssoides (L.) P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb. | 1925 | Muegel, Harry R. | Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge |
![]() | Cladonia amaurocraea (Flörke) Schaer. | 1925 | Braun, E. Lucy | Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge |
![]() | Cladonia cristatella Tuck. | 1925 | Braun, E. Lucy | Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge |
| Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr. | 1925 | Braun, E. Lucy | Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge |
All 1,405 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Jacksonville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plum Run Stone Division Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this place
4 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jacksonville in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonville | $3,000 | A few trees were downed. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Jacksonville | - | High water was reported rushing over Lawshe Road near Route 41. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Jacksonville | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Jacksonville | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam Furnace | 1.7 miles | 13 | |
| Lawshe | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Peebles | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Fawcett | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Wheat Ridge | 3.7 miles | 11 | |
| Scrub Ridge | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Dunkinsville | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Unity | 4.6 miles | 11 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Jacksonville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22022999 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064897. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.























