Jacksonboro, South Carolina

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|subdivision_type = Country

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|subdivision_name1 = South Carolina

|subdivision_type2 = County

|subdivision_name2 = Colleton

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|area_total_km2 = 37.47

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|area_total_sq_mi = 14.47

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|population_as_of = 2020

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|population_total = 412

|population_density_km2 = 10.99

|population_density_sq_mi = 28.47

|timezone = Eastern (EST)

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|timezone_DST = EDT

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|postal_code_type = ZIP code

|postal_code = 29446

|area_code = 843 and 854

|blank_name = GNIS feature ID

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Jacksonboro is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located in southeastern Colleton County, South Carolina, United States, along the west side of the Edisto River.{{cite gnis|1246146|Jacksonboro, South Carolina}} Jacksonboro serves as a primary junction along U.S. Highway 17 between Charleston {{convert|32|mi}} to the east and Beaufort {{convert|41|mi}} to the southwest. Walterboro, the Colleton County seat, is {{convert|16|mi}} to the northwest via South Carolina Highway 64. The population of Jacksonboro was 478 as of the 2010 census.{{cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US4536250| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Census Summary File 1 (G001): Jacksonboro town, South Carolina| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder| accessdate=July 2, 2015| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213083136/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US4536250| archive-date=February 13, 2020| url-status=dead}}

Jacksonboro was founded in the 1730s, and named after John Jackson, the original owner of the town site.{{cite book|author=Federal Writers' Project|title=The Ocean Highway: New Brunswick, New Jersey to Jacksonville, Florida|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015064565875;view=1up;seq=196|year=1938|publisher=Works Progress Administration|page=136}} The Pon Pon Chapel was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.{{NRISref|version=2010a}}