Jackson
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city in and county seat of Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Missouri
- County
- Cape Girardeau
- Named after
- Andrew Jackson
- Total
- 10.76 sq mi (27.87 km )
- Land
- 10.75 sq mi (27.83 km )
- Water
- 0.015 sq mi (0.04 km )
- Elevation
- 466 ft (142 m)
- Density
- 1,440.7/sq mi (556.24/km )
- Demonym
- Jacksonian
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 29-35648
- Gnis feature id
- 0720202
- Website
- City website
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Jackson is a city in and the county seat of Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States. It is a principal city of the Cape Girardeau-Jackson metropolitan area Area. The population of Jackson was 15,481 at the 2020 census.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jackson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.