Jackson

Jackson is a city in and the county seat of Jackson County in the south-central part of the state of , halfway between and , forty minutes south of and about an hour west of .
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  • Type: City with 34,600 residents
  • Description: seat of Jackson County, Michigan, United States
  • Also known as: Jackson, MI”, “Jackson, Michigan”, “Jacksonburg”, and “Jacksonopolis
  • Postal codes: 49201-49204
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Michigan Theatre and W A Foote Memorial Hospital.

Theater building
The is a historic movie palace in downtown Jackson, Michigan. The theater was built for W. S. Butterfield Theatres, and opened in 1930 as the first air-conditioned building in downtown Jackson.

Hospital
Henry Ford Jackson Hospital is a 475-bed health system in Jackson in the U.S. state of . Henry Ford Jackson Hospital has more than 400 physicians and 3,700 staff members.

Railway station
is a historic Amtrak station in Jackson, Michigan, United States. It is served by three daily Wolverine trains between and and a single daily Amtrak Thruway bus between , , Jackson, and .

Jackson

Latitude
42.2465° or 42° 14′ 47″ north
Longitude
-84.4017° or 84° 24′ 6″ west
Population
34,600
Elevation
932 feet (284 metres)
IATA airport code
JXN
Open location code
86JQ6HWX+J8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153973836
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4997384
Wiki­data ID
Q984374
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Jackson” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: جاكسون
  • Armenian: Ջեքսոն
  • Basque: Jackson
  • Belarusian: Джэксан (Мічыган)
  • Belarusian: Джэксан
  • Catalan: Jackson
  • Cebuano: Jackson (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Michigan)
  • Cebuano: Jackson
  • Chechen: Джексон
  • Chinese: Jackson
  • Chinese: 傑克遜 (密西根州)
  • Chinese: 傑克遜
  • Chinese: 杰克逊
  • Dagbani: Jackson
  • Danish: Jackson
  • Dutch: Jackson
  • Egyptian Arabic: جاكسون
  • French: Jackson
  • Georgian: ჯექსონი
  • German: Jackson
  • Gilaki: جکسن (ميشيگان)
  • Gilaki: جکسن
  • Hebrew: ג’קסון
  • Hungarian: Jackson
  • Irish: Jackson
  • Italian: Jackson
  • Japanese: ジャクソン
  • Kazakh: Djékson
  • Kazakh: Джэксон
  • Kazakh: دجەكسون
  • Kirghiz: Джэксон
  • Korean: 잭슨
  • Ladin: Jackson
  • Malagasy: Jackson, Michigan
  • Malagasy: Jackson
  • Malayalam: ജാക്സൺ
  • Mazanderani: جکسون (میشیگان)
  • Mazanderani: جکسون
  • Min Nan Chinese: Jackson
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Jackson
  • Norwegian: Jackson
  • Persian: جکسون، میشیگان
  • Persian: جکسون
  • Polish: Jackson
  • Portuguese: Jackson
  • Romanian: Jackson, Michigan
  • Romanian: Jackson
  • Russian: Джексон
  • Russian: Джэксон
  • Serbian: Џексон
  • Serbo-Croatian: Jackson, Michigan
  • Serbo-Croatian: Jackson
  • Silesian: Jackson
  • Slovenian: Jackson
  • South Azerbaijani: جکسون، میشیقان
  • Spanish: Jackson (Míchigan)
  • Spanish: Jackson
  • Swedish: Jackson, Michigan
  • Swedish: Jackson
  • Tagalog: Jackson
  • Tatar: Джексон
  • Turkish: Jackson, Michigan
  • Turkish: Jackson
  • Ukrainian: Джексон
  • Urdu: جیکسن، مشی گن
  • Urdu: جیکسن
  • Uzbek: Jackson
  • Uzbek: Жаcксон
  • Vietnamese: Jackson, Michigan
  • Vietnamese: Jackson
  • Volapük: Jackson
  • Waray (Philippines): Jackson, Michigan
  • Waray (Philippines): Jackson
  • Welsh: Jackson, Michigan
  • Welsh: Jackson

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Jackson”. Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0.