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JACKSON, a post-village, capital of Cape Girardeau county, Missouri, 200 miles E. S. E. from Jefferson City, and 10 miles from the Mississippi river. It contains a court house, a bank, United States land-office, a newspaper office, and numerous stores.  (Baldwin's New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States..., 1854)

JACKSON  The county seat of Cape Girardeau county, on Hubbes creek, a tributary of White river, 12 miles from the Mississippi, 162 miles south-east of Jefferson City.  It has one newspaper, county buildings, and a land office.   (Missouri State Gazetteer..., 1860)

Total Population 1860
433
Latitude
37.379922
Longitude
-89.654073
Type
City or Town
County
Cape Girardeau
State
Missouri