Jacksonville, AL

Jacksonville is a Calhoun County city in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, part of the Anniston-Oxford metro. Jacksonville State University is the defining institution here, founded in 1883 and still one of the area's major employers. That gives the city a college-town layer on top of its small northeast Alabama setting. Local schools, university commerce, foothill geography, and proximity to Anniston all shape the way Jacksonville functions.