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Jackson County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 27,791. [1] Its county seat is Ripley , [2] and its largest municipality is Ravenswood .
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The primary goal of our website is to provide residents of Jackson County, West Virginia with convenient access to information, materials, and resources related to Jackson County elections, official county records, and the probate of wills and administration of estates.
Jackson County, in western West Virginia (WV), was formed in 1831 from parts of Wood, Mason, and Kanawha counties and was named for President Andrew Jackson. Its county seat is at Ripley, though its largest municipality is Ravenswood, on the Ohio River.
To discover, procure, preserve and publish whatever may relate to Jackson County’s natural, traditional, civic, military, literary and genealogical history of interest to this and future generations.
Jackson County is located in the Appalachian foothills on the Ohio River between Parkersburg and Point Pleasant. It has 471.2 square miles of rolling, hilly land, with large flat bottoms on the Ohio River, Big Mill Creek, and Big Sandy Creek.
