North Jackson, Ohio

North Jackson is an unincorporated community in central Jackson Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 44451.[1] It lies along State Route 45 between Salem and Warren. The community is part of the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area.

North Jackson is the site of a Marian shrine of the Catholic Church, the Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon.

History

A post office called North Jackson has been in operation since 1837.[2] Besides the post office, North Jackson had a station on the Pennsylvania Railroad.[3] A variant name was Jackson Center.[4]

Education

North Jackson is also home to Jackson-Milton Public Schools which provide education for North Jackson and Lake Milton residents.

References

  1. Zip Code Lookup
  2. "Mahoning County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  3. Butler, Joseph Green (1921). History of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley, Ohio. American Historical Society. p. 580.
  4. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: North Jackson, Ohio

Coordinates: 41°06′00″N 80°51′26″W / 41.10000°N 80.85722°W / 41.10000; -80.85722


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