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Jackson is a home rule-class city and the county seat of Breathitt County, Kentucky, and it is the county's only incorporated city.

When Breathitt County was created in 1839, local landowner Simon Cockrell Sr. donated 10 acres to serve as its seat of government.

The community was originally known as Breathitt, Breathitt Town or Breathitt Court House after the county.

Upon its incorporation as a city in the 1840s, it was renamed Jackson to honor former U.S. President Andrew Jackson, and it was reincorporated in 1890.

Jackson and Breathitt County earned national notoriety for local feuds that led the press to dub the county 'Bloody Breathitt'; state troops were dispatched twice in the 1870s and again in 1903, after U.S. Commissioner James B. Marcum was assassinated on the courthouse steps.

The Kentucky Union Railroad reached Jackson in 1891 and the city boomed until the Louisville and Nashville Railroad extended the line on to Hazard in 1912.

A fire on Halloween night in 1913 burned down much of the town.

Jackson was home to the Jackson Academy, which later became Lees College.

Jackson had a population of 2,237 at the 2020 census.

At the 2000 census, Jackson had 2,490 residents living in 1,005 households.