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A municipality incorporates as a 4th Class city if the population is between 500 and 2,999 (under 500, it may incorporate as a village [1] – see list of villages in Missouri). It may incorporate as a 3rd Class city if the population is between 3,000 and 29,999. [2] There is more flexibility in government for 3rd Class cities than 4th Class.
The Athens of Missouri [7] CoMo [8] Cuba – Mural City [9] Hannibal. America's Hometown [10] The Bluff City [11] Independence – Where the Trails Start and the Buck Stops [12] Jefferson City. City of Thomas Jefferson [13] J.C. Jeff; Kansas City. BBQ Capital of the World [14] City of Fountains [15] Cowtown [14] Jazz Capital of the World [14]
Cape Girardeau (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ r ɑːr d oʊ / jirr-AR-doh, French: Cap-Girardeau [kap ʒiʁaʁdo] ⓘ; colloquially referred to as "Cape") is a city in Cape Girardeau and Scott Counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. At the 2020 census, the population was 39,540, making it the 17th-largest in the state. [5]
There are 114 counties and one independent city in the U.S. State of Missouri.Following the Louisiana Purchase and the admittance of Louisiana into the United States in 1812, five counties were formed out of the Missouri Territory at the first general assembly: Cape Girardeau, New Madrid, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, and Ste. Genevieve.
Broadway Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.The district encompasses 35 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in a predominantly commercial section of Cape Girardeau.
Broadway and North Fountain Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.The district encompasses four contributing buildings in the central business district of Cape Girardeau built between 1907 and 1937.
Raymond Melvin Gateley (1926-2018), former president of the Missouri State Teacher's Association who served in the Army Air Corps during the Pacific War and as a member of the Cape Girardeau City Council for eight years; James “J.J.” Williamson (1952-2022), Cape Girardeau's first black city council member, was elected in 1994. [55]
The Missouri Wall of Fame is a 500-foot (150 m) span of flood wall in downtown Cape Girardeau, Missouri, covered with a mural of 45 panels [1] depicting 46 [2] or 47 [3] famous people who were born in the state or achieved fame while living there. The names were chosen by "a panel of the Cape's leading citizens" and it was painted in 1995, and ...