Jonesboro or Jonesborough is the name of a number of settlements in the United States and the United Kingdom:
United States
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Jonesboro, Arkansas
Jonesboro is a city located on Crowley's Ridge in the northeastern corner of the U.S. State of Arkansas. Jonesboro is one of two county seats of Craighead County. According to the 2020 Census, the city had a population of 78,576 and is the f ...
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Jonesboro massacre
On March 24, 1998, a school shooting occurred at Westside Middle School in unincorporated Craighead County, Arkansas near the city of Jonesboro. Perpetrators Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, fatally shot four students and a teacher ...
, a school shooting incident
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Jonesboro, Georgia
Jonesboro is a city in and the county seat of Clayton County, Georgia, United States. The population was 4,724 as of the 2010 census.
The city's name was originally spelled Jonesborough. During the Civil War, the final skirmish in the Atlanta Cam ...
, originally Jonesborough
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Battle of Jonesborough
The Battle of Jonesborough (August 31–September 1, 1864) was fought between Union Army forces led by William Tecumseh Sherman and Confederate forces under William J. Hardee during the Atlanta Campaign in the American Civil War. On the first ...
, final battle of the Atlanta Campaign
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Jonesboro, Illinois
Jonesboro is a city in Union County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,821 at the 2010 census, a decline from 1,853 in 2000. It is the county seat of Union County. The city is known for being tied to its close neighbor Anna, together ...
, site of the third of the Lincoln–Douglas debates
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Jonesboro, Indiana
Jonesboro is a city in Grant County, Indiana, United States, located along the Mississinewa River opposite Gas City. The population was 1,756 at the 2010 census. According to the 2010 census, Jonesboro had the third smallest population of a city ...
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Jonesboro, Louisiana
Jonesboro is a town in, and the parish seat of, Jackson Parish in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The population was 4,106 in 2020.
History
Founded on January 10, 1860, by Joseph Jones and his wife, Sarah Pankey Jones ...
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Jonesboro, Maine
Jonesboro is a town in Washington County, Maine, United States. The town was named for John Coffin Jones, a landholder. The population was 587 at the 2020 census.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area ...
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Jonesboro, Ohio Jonesboro is an unincorporated community in Clinton County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.
History
Located just south of Martinsville in Clark Township, Jonesboro was not officially plat
In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastra ...
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Jonesboro, Oregon
Jonesboro is an unincorporated historic community in Malheur County, Oregon, United States. It is located on U.S Route 20, between Juntura and Harper, near the Malheur River.
Jonesboro was a station on the Union Pacific Railroad
The Union ...
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Jonesborough, Tennessee
Jonesborough (historically also Jonesboro) is a town in, and the county seat of, Washington County, Tennessee, in the Southeastern United States. Its population was 5,860 as of 2020. It is "Tennessee's oldest town".
Jonesborough is part of the J ...
, "Tennessee's oldest town"
United Kingdom
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Jonesborough, County Armagh
Jonesborough or Jonesboro (Irish: ''Baile an Chláir'') is a small village and civil parish in the Ring of Gullion in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is about south of Newry and lies from the border with County Louth in the Republic of Irela ...
, a small village in Northern Ireland
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