Jackson's Gap is a town in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, United States.

[3] According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 8.4 square miles (22 km2), all land.

Jackson's Gap was named for a local settler in the early 19th century.

[4] The town got its name after a man erected a cabin and traded with the Creeks and local settlers and travelers, possibly in the 1810s or 1820s.

Some time after , a fellow named Patterson established a blacksmith shop there, and more settlers began to arrive from Georgia and South Carolina in the 1830s.