The founder of the city of Jahrom, Artaxerxes I of Persia, the son of Xerxes I, the fifth Achaemenid king.

[15] Based on Ahmad Kasravi, the late Iranian historian and philologist, the name Jahrom can be analyzed to render a "warm-place".

[16] Jahrom consists of "Ja" and "Hrom", Ja means "place" and "Hrom" in Avestan means "high and forbidden fortress", which is other name of the city of Barzeh (the current Takht-e Soleymān) In Iranian Azerbaijan, near the city of Maragheh.

[17] "Dar ol-Momenin" is the other nickname which means "house of faithful people" because of high percentage of Islam believers in the city.

The Sassanid monument of Qadamgāh is located to the south of the city, experts believe the monument was constructed during the late Sasanian dynastic era (224-651 AD), and it was a Zoroastrian shrine, probably a fire temple.

Jahrom is the birthplace of Barbod, who became the main lyricist and musician in the court of the great Sassanid king Khosrau II (Parviz).

As it is described in Fars-Nama, Jahrom's taxes were paid to the Crown Prince during the Buyid period.

In 1887, Mohammad Hassan Mirza Mohandes, introduced Jahrom as the largest and most prosperous city in Persia after Shiraz and Bushehr.

[19] People of Jahrom had an important rule in tobacco protests of 1890 and Persian Constitutional Revolution of early 20th century.

Jahrom also had an important role in the Islamic revolution of Iran and was one of the 11 cities with martial law in pre-revolution protests.

A soldier killed the military governor of Jahrom on the birthday of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on 6 October 1978.

[3] The main ethnic group in Jahrom consists of Persians, while Basseries and Arabs constitute small minorities.

The most significant sign of Jahromi accent is dropping the last letter in words ending in vowels.

Jahrom also had a small Jewish community all of whom migrated to Shiraz and Israel in the past decades.

orange blossom, lemon juice, and date-based sweets like Ranginak and different halvas are also produced in Jahrom.

[35] Giveh, carpet, felt, kilim, cuprous dishes, and wickers are handicrafts of the city.

There is an under construction railway project Connecting Shiraz to Bandar abbas which will have a station in Jahrom.

[45] Shahid Rahmanian is the bus terminal of Jahrom with daily buses to Shiraz, Tehran, Isfahan, Bandar Abbas, Lar, etc.