County Of Jackson

County Of Jackson, doing business as Jackson County Court, a West Virginia local government entity headquartered in Ripley, receives federal grants as a prime recipient focused on airport infrastructure development and pandemic relief, with no contract prime footprint. The county functions as the awardee and project sponsor for Federal Aviation Administration infrastructure modernization and construction work at the Ravenswood-Jackson County Airport and associated facilities in the Millwood, West Virginia area.

Jackson County's federal grant portfolio centers exclusively on the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Eastern Region, which accounts for 14 of 15 total awards (93% of recent activity). The county has received four named grants in the past four years: a $176.7 thousand Project Grant awarded February 22, 2023, under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) to construct the final phase of a 2,500 square-foot terminal building (completion targeted for February 21, 2027); a $396 thousand Formula Grant awarded July 14, 2025, under the Airport Improvement Program to replace an Automated Weather Observing System Type III that had reached end-of-life (period of performance through July 13, 2029); a $152.6 thousand Project Grant awarded August 16, 2026, under the Airport Infrastructure Grants program (CFDA 20.117) to reimburse terminal construction completed in November 2023 (period of performance through August 15, 2030); and a Project Grant awarded November 4, 2021, under the American Rescue Plan Act providing pandemic relief funds for airport operations, personnel, cleaning, sanitization, debt service, and pathogen mitigation (ultimate completion November 3, 2025).

Combined obligated dollars across the entire award history total $6.7 million, with activity averaging fewer than one award per year over the past five years — three awards in 2020 and 2021, then declining to one award each in 2023, 2025, and 2026. The most recent award arrived in August 2026. Jackson County holds a named subsidiary, Jackson, County Of Inc, classified as a U.S. local government county entity. The county operates as a grant recipient only; it does not hold contracts, participate in IDIQs or GWACs, or function as a subcontractor on federal contracts. Its federal engagement is confined to FAA airport infrastructure grants and COVID-19 pandemic-relief assistance, with all work performed or overseen at the Ravenswood-Jackson County Airport in Millwood, West Virginia.