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History · Jackson Center

Jackson Center dates to 1835, and 13% of its homes were built before 1940

More historic than 52% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Below: maps from 1913 on and the census since 1870.

1835founded
0on the National Register
13%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Jackson Center began

When was Jackson Center founded?

1835

Jackson Center dates its founding to 1835 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1870.

First census: 60 in 18702020 census: 1,441191 years

How historic is Jackson Center?

B−

More historic than 52% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: Wikipedia. First post office: 1858.The full story ↓
History grade

What drives Jackson Center’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Jackson Center is more historic than 52% of U.S. towns. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.

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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Jackson Center’s overall grade.
Founding era1835, from Wikipedia: founded 1776–1849, an older era than 75% of U.S. townsA−Homes built before 194012.8% of homes (±6.2) · typical OH town 14.5% · U.S. 8.4%B−National RegisterNo listings counted · typical OH town 2.9 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 52%
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Ohio towns list about as much on the Register as the country (a typical Ohio town has 2.9 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Jackson Center’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (23% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C to B+. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±6.2 points). Two sources give 1835.

Founding year: Wikipedia (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →

What stands out about Jackson Center’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Jackson Center are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19134 editions of the USGS map, 1913 to 1973. Watch Jackson Center change.Deep rootsEstablished in 1835: 191 years of Jackson Center.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Jackson Center’s history is told.

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On the map

Jackson Center on the map, 1913 to 1973

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Jackson Center. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Jackson Center on the 1913 USGS mapJackson Center on the 1944 USGS mapJackson Center on the 1961 USGS mapJackson Center on the 1973 USGS map1913Sidney sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Jackson Center.

Timeline

Jackson Center, 1835 to 1913

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1835
    FoundingJackson Center is established
  3. 1858Post officeThe Jackson Center post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1913On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story

How Jackson Center came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Jackson Center.

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Jackson Center was platted in 1835. A post office called Jackson Center has been in operation since 1858.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

From the old history books

What they wrote about Jackson Center in 1913

Passages that mention Jackson Center, cut from the printed page as they were published.

This road, which passes in a northwesterly and southeasterly direction through Jackson and Salem townships, with stations at Jackson Center and Maplewood, is the old Ohio Southern and was constructed in 1894. Its taxable value has been fixed by the tax commission at $90,900 on 9.555 miles of main t…
History of Shelby County, Ohio1913 · page 213Read the page →
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This road, which passes in a northwesterly and southeasterly direction through Jackson and Salem townships, with stations at Jackson Center and Maplewood, is the old Ohio Southern and was constructed in 1894. Its taxable value has been fixed by the tax commission at $90,900 on 9.555 miles of main track and 1.56 siding for the year 1912.

Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.

Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

By decade

Jackson Center, decade by decade

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People over time

Jackson Center, census by census

02004006008001,0001,2001,4001,60018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 1,462

Between 60 and 1,462 people in every census since 1870.

14 censuses, 1870–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Jackson Center’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Jackson Center

Nobody well known was born in Jackson Center itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Dudley NicholsAmerican screenwriter · b. 1895
Clive RushAmerican football player and coach · b. 1931
J. Edward RussellAmerican politician · b. 1867
Charles J. ThompsonAmerican politician · b. 1862
George A. MarshallAmerican politician · b. 1851
George Clyde FisherAmerican curator at the American Museum of Natu… · b. 1878

Questions about Jackson Center’s history

What year was Jackson Center founded?

In 1835, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Jackson Center’s post office opened in 1858, and the census of 1870 counted 60 people here.

How does Jackson Center rank for history?

Jackson Center is more historic than 52% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

How old are the homes in Jackson Center?

13% of Jackson Center’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.2 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1979.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

From Wikimedia Commons (12), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.