Jeffers Mound

Jeffers Mound is a Hopewell tradition Native American burial mound in Worthington, Ohio. The mound is all that remains of the ceremonial Worthington Earthworks site built between 100 B.C. and 400 A.D.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Linworth Alternative Program and Thomas Worthington High School.

Linworth Alternative Program

School building

Linworth Experiential Program is located in Worthington, Ohio, in the Linworth area and is part of the Worthington City School District. Linworth Alternative Program is situated 2,200 feet southwest of Jeffers Mound.

Thomas Worthington High School

School

Thomas Worthington High School is a public school in Worthington, Ohio. The school was named Worthington High School until 1991, when sister school, Worthington Kilbourne High School, opened. Thomas Worthington High School is situated 3,000 feet east of Jeffers Mound.

Worthington Presbyterian Church

Church

Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.

Worthington Presbyterian Church is a historic church in Worthington, Ohio, United States founded in 1805. The congregation worships in a Colonial Revival church building that was built in 1927. Worthington Presbyterian Church is situated 1 mile east of Jeffers Mound.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Worthington and Northwest Columbus.

Worthington

Photo: George Campbell, CC BY 2.0.

Worthington is a city in the Greater Columbus area of Ohio. Located slightly North of Columbus on State Route 23. Founded in 1803, with a New England heritage reflected in its authentic brick sidewalks and central Village Green, many of the city’s original commercial buildings and churches still stand.

Northwest Columbus

Quarter

Northwest Columbus is a region in Franklin County, Ohio. It has about 45,000 residents, according to the 2010 U.S. census. Northwest Columbus is bounded by the Scioto River on the west, the Olentangy River on the east, State Route 161 on the north, and Highland Drive and Henderson Road on the south. Northwest Columbus is situated 2 miles southwest of Jeffers Mound.

Flint

Hamlet

Flint is an unincorporated community in Sharon Township, Franklin County, Ohio, United States, located north of downtown Columbus near the intersection of Flint and Park Roads. Flint is situated 3 miles northeast of Jeffers Mound.

Jeffers Mound

Type: Archaeological site
Description: burial mound in Worthington, Ohio named after Herman Plesenton Jeffers
Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Sharon Township, Franklin, Ohio, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.0925° or 40° 5′ 33″ north

Longitude

-83.0394° or 83° 2′ 22″ west

Open location code

86GR3XV6+26

OpenStreetMap ID

way 777182176

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=archaeological_site

Wikidata ID

Q29641750

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