We study the ground state of a
d-dimensional Ising model with both long-range (dipole-like) and nearest-neighbor ferromagnetic (FM) interactions. The long-range interaction is equal to ${r}^{\ensuremath{-}p}$,
p>d, while the FM interaction has strength
J. If
p>d+1 and
J is large enough the ground state is FM, while if $d<p\ensuremath{\leqslant}d+1$ the FM state is not the ground state for any choice of
J. In
d=1 we show that for any
p>1 the ground state has a series of transitions from an antiferromagnetic state of period 2 to
2h-periodic states of blocks of sizes
h with alternating sign, the size
h growing when the FM interaction strength
J is increased (a generalization of this result to the case $0<p\ensuremath{\leqslant}1$ is also discussed). In $d\ensuremath{\geqslant}2$ we prove, for $d<p\ensuremath{\leqslant}d+1$, that the dominant asymptotic behavior of the ground-state energy agrees for large
J with that obtained from a periodic striped state conjectured to be the true ground state. The geometry of contours in the ground state is discussed.