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Jackson County

Jackson County is located in the Appalachian foothills on the Ohio River between Parkersburg and Point Pleasant. It has 472 square miles of rolling, hilly land, with large flat bottoms on the Ohio River, Big Mill Creek, and Big Sandy Creek. The county was named in honor of Andrew Jackson, the hero of the Battle of New Orleans and seventh president of the United States.

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