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Jackson is a city in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, and it serves as the county seat; it is a principal city of the Cape Girardeau–Jackson metropolitan area.

Jackson was the first town in the United States to be named after Andrew Jackson, renamed in 1819 in honor of his War of 1812 fame; before that it was known as Birdstown, and the town site along Hubble Creek was platted in 1815.

Jackson was first incorporated in 1819, and in 1884 its voters chose to reincorporate it as a city of the fourth class.

The first Cape Girardeau County courthouse was built on Jackson's public square in 1818; after it burned in 1870, the current courthouse was built on the square in 1908.

The Missouri Herald, only the third newspaper established in Missouri, was founded in Jackson on June 25, 1819.

Cholera devastated early Jackson twice, killing 128 people in June 1833 and emptying the town again in the epidemic of June 1852.

In 1877, Jackson was linked to Cape Girardeau by the first long-distance railway service line in Missouri.

Jackson has grown in every census since 1860, when it had 433 residents, and the 2020 census counted 15,481 people living in 6,081 households.

Five Jackson sites are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including McKendree Chapel, the Abraham Byrd House and the Jackson Uptown Commercial Historic District.

Most of Jackson is served by the Jackson R-2 School District and Jackson High School, and the city has a branch of the Riverside Regional Library.