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In 2011, Jackson was ranked the 59th most livable small town in the United States by [[CNN]]'s Money Magazine. It has also received highly positive evaluations from ''Missouri Life'' magazine and other organizations.<ref>http://www.jacksonmo.org/Information-Center/Community-Profile/</ref>
In 2011, Jackson was ranked the 59th most livable small town in the United States by [[CNN]]'s Money Magazine. It has also received highly positive evaluations from ''Missouri Life'' magazine and other organizations.<ref>http://www.jacksonmo.org/Information-Center/Community-Profile/</ref>
==Geography==
Jackson is located slightly south of the geographic center of Cape Girardeau County, its city center about nine miles northwest of downtown Cape Girardeau. The original area of settlement is just east of Hubble Creek, centered on the intersection of Main and High Streets (where the courthouse is located); since then, the city's boundaries have been expanded four times, especially (and most recently) to the east and southeast, for example along Jackson Boulevard, the main thoroughfare and home to a large number of its businesses. The official coordinates are 37°22’48”N 89°39’29”W.
The city has a total area of 10.96 square miles, all but 0.02 of them land.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120112090031/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt</ref> As part of the eastern foothills of the Ozark Plateau, its topography is characterized by gently rolling hills, slightly more rugged to the east, with several high points of around 600 feet. The average elevation is 463 feet.<ref>https://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=22217</ref>
Jackson is a meeting point for most of the major highways in the county. Interstate 55 runs northwest to southeast along the city's eastern boundary, while the intersection of Jackson Boulevard and South Hope Street is also the junction of three other routes: Missouri State Highway 25, whose northern terminus is there; State Highway 34, which runs across the city from west to east as Jackson Boulevard; and U.S. Route 61, which enters the city from the north, then turns east at the junction and continues with Highway 34 to I-55 and on into Cape Girardeau.
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