NORTH JACKSON, OH

North Jackson is an unincorporated community in central Jackson Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, United States. It has a post office with the ZIP code 44451. 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. Besides the post office, North Jackson had a station on the Pennsylvania Railroad. A variant name was Jackson Center.

Education

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

North Jackson has a public library, a branch of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County.