It is situated 78 km from Nagpur, and the nearest railway stations are Mowad, Warud, Katol, Narkhed.

The town is a tourist attraction as it has the Someshwar Fort Temple as well as the confluence of the two rivers.

This city is also famous because of a natural calamity on 30 July 1991, the flood of Wardha River.

The Wardha River floods[2] of 1962 and 1991 were very severe, causing heavy loss of life, property, crops and infrastructure.

After the devastating flood of July 1991, all the houses in Jalalkheda were shifted to safer sites.