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Jackson is a city in southern Ohio and the county seat of Jackson County, about 27 miles southeast of Chillicothe.

Jackson was established in 1817 and named for Andrew Jackson, a hero of the War of 1812 who later became president of the United States.

Jackson grew slowly at first — it had only 297 inhabitants in 1840 — then boomed with the railroads and iron industry, reaching 3,021 people by 1880.

In the 1880s Jackson's largest businesses were the Star Furnace Company and the Globe Iron Company, which used local coal and iron ore deposits to make iron products.

Jackson had a population of 6,252 at the 2020 census, with 2,673 households counted that year.

Jackson has the eighth-largest population of people of Welsh descent in the United States and the fourth-largest in Ohio, a heritage documented by the Welsh-American Heritage Museum in nearby Oak Hill.

The city's motto is "We make things happen."

Jackson hosts the annual Jackson County Apple Festival, and its Apple Water Tower is a local landmark.

City parks in Jackson include Eddie Jones Park, Manpower Park and McKinley Park, and Hammertown Lake, the city reservoir, offers fishing and picnic areas.

Jackson High School is the public high school of Jackson City Schools, which also operates three elementary schools and one middle school, and the city is served by the Jackson City Library.