Transportation

Jackson County is located in the central portion of Southern Ohio.

The city of Jackson, the county seat, is located 75 miles south of the state capital of Columbus, 100 miles east of Cincinnati and just over 30 miles northwest of the Ohio River at Gallipolis.

The two major highways traveling through Jackson County are U.S. 35 and State Route 32. U.S. 35 is a major northwest/southeast corridor that is heavily utilized by the trucking industry, and is four-lane from Dayton to Gallipolis, where it crosses to Mason County, West Virginia. State Route 32 is part of the multistage Appalachian Highway system and is four-lane from Cincinnati in the southwestern corner of the state to Marietta in the southeastern corner of the state. Both corridors offer excellent accessibility and connectivity while providing a high quality level of service, minimal congestion and few traffic delays. Crash rates on these corridors are low when compared to Ohio's Interstate system.

Jackson County is also within two hours of seven major interstate highways, Interstates 71, 74 and 75 to the west, plus 77 and 79, both to the east, are all north-south routes while Interstate 64 to the south and 70 to the north are primary east-west corridors in the Midwestern United States. Jackson County is within 500 miles of two-thirds of the population of the United States.

Jackson County is in close proximity to air, water and rail:

James A Rhodes Airport
Rail - City of Jackson Short Line
McGovney Water Terminal

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 422 square miles (1,092 km²).420 square miles (1,089 km²) of it is land and 1 square miles (3 km²) of it (0.29%) is water.