Jackson County, OH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,030 ft 315 m920 ft 280 m860 ft 265 m750 ft 230 m640 ft 195 m590 ft 180 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Jackson County averages about 780 ft (240 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 590 ft on the southwest side to 1,030 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
780 ft 240 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,030 ft 315 m
on the west side
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the southwest side
Jackson County spans about 440 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 780 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 590 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
20 mi west to east through Jackson.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Ohio, United States
- Population
- 32,723 2024 est.
- Land area
- 420.3 sq mi + 1.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 78 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Vinton County840 ft
- Pike County840 ft
- Ross County840 ft
- Scioto County790 ft
- Jackson County780 ft
- Lawrence County760 ft
- Gallia County730 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Ohio72nd highest of 88
- Counties in the United States1,863rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Big Rock900 ft
All 16 towns in Jackson County by typical elevation
- Washington Township, Jackson County840 ft
- Scioto Township, Jackson County840 ft
- Liberty Township, Jackson County810 ft
- Jackson Township, Jackson County810 ft
- Franklin Township, Jackson County810 ft
- Coal Township800 ft
- Milton Township, Jackson County790 ft
- Hamilton Township, Jackson County790 ft
- Jefferson Township, Jackson County780 ft
- Lick Township760 ft
- Bloomfield Township, Jackson County750 ft
- Madison Township, Jackson County740 ft
- Coalton740 ft
- Wellston730 ft
- Oak Hill720 ft
- Jackson680 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.