Editing Jackson Purchase (section)

{{Short description|Region in Kentucky}}
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|common_name = Jackson Purchase
|subdivision = Country
|nation = {{flagicon|USA}}[[United States]]
|demonym = [[Chickasaw]]
|status_text = Territorial acquisition
|government_type = Federal & State
|title_leader = U.S. negotiator
|title_deputy = U.S. negotiator
|leader1 = General [[Andrew Jackson]]
|year_leader1 = 1818
|deputy1 = Ex-governor [[Isaac Shelby]]
|year_deputy1 = 1818
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|today = Western Kentucky & [[West Tennessee]] <!-- Do NOT add flags, per MOS:INFOBOXFLAG -->
|event_start = Claimed by U.S.
|date_start = 1792
|event_end = 1818
|date_end = 
|event1 = U.S. acquired in [[Treaty of Tuscaloosa]]
|date_event1 = October, 1818
|event2 = Annexed to Kentucky & Tennessee
|date_event2 = 1819
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|era = [[Territorial evolution of the United States|Westward expansion of the U.S.]]
|image_map = File:Map of Kentucky highlighting Purchase.png
|image_map_caption = Counties comprising the Jackson Purchase region
|stat_year1 = 2020
|stat_area1 = 6,202.5
|stat_pop1 = 196,876
|area_gained1 = Western [[Kentucky]], [[West Tennessee]],
|gained_from1 = The [[Chickasaw Nation]]
|area_gained_year1 = 1818
|Status = Former disputed territory
|Divisions = [[List of counties in Kentucky|Counties]]
|DivisionsNames = {{bulletlist|[[Ballard County, Kentucky|Ballard]]|[[Calloway County, Kentucky|Calloway]]|[[Carlisle County, Kentucky|Carlisle]]|[[Fulton County, Kentucky|Fulton]]|[[Graves County, Kentucky|Graves]]|[[Hickman County, Kentucky|Hickman]]|[[Marshall County, Kentucky|Marshall]]|[[McCracken County, Kentucky|McCracken]]  }}
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The '''Jackson Purchase''', also known as the '''Purchase Region''' or simply '''the Purchase''', is a [[region]] in the U.S. state of [[Kentucky]] bounded by the [[Mississippi River]] to the west, the [[Ohio River]] to the north, and the [[Tennessee River]] to the east.<ref>{{cite book| title=Encyclopedia of Kentucky| chapter=Geography| publisher=University Press of Kentucky| location=Lexington| date=May 18, 1992| editor-last=Kelber| editor-first=John E.| pages=367–368| chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/kentuckyencyclop0000unse/page/366/mode/2up?q=geography| isbn=978-0-8131-1772-0| access-date=November 3, 2023| chapter-url-access=registration}}</ref>

Jackson's Purchase also included all of [[Tennessee]] west of the Tennessee River. In modern usage, however, the term refers only to the Kentucky portion of the Jackson Purchase. The southern portion is simply called [[West Tennessee]].{{fact|date=April 2025}}