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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]
Category: Bodies of water of Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. Add languages. Add links. Category; Talk; English. ... Rivers of Cape Girardeau County, Missouri (1 C, 29 P)
Historically, the name Whitewater River applied to a 120 km (75 mi) long stream that headed approximately two miles east of the community of Womack in St. Francois County flowing south through Perry, Bollinger, Cape Girardeau and Stoddard counties before entering the Little River near Bell City.
Cape Girardeau's Riverfront Park, located at 121 N. Water St., overlooks the Mississippi River. Portions of the riverfront are featured in the "Gone Girl" trailer. Greta Cross is the trending ...
Flowing west to east, it diverts the headwaters of the Castor and Whitewater rivers and Crooked Creek directly into the Mississippi River south of Cape Girardeau. It was built between 1910 and 1916 by the Little River Drainage District .
Pages in category "Rivers of Cape Girardeau County, Missouri" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Cape Girardeau County was organized on October 1, 1812, as one of five original counties in the Missouri Territory after the US made the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. It is named after Ensign Sieur Jean Baptiste de Girardot (also spelled Girardeau or Girardat), a French officer stationed 1704–1720 at Kaskaskia in the Illinois Country of New France.
Whitewater is a village in Hubble Township in southwestern Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States. The population was 88 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Cape Girardeau–Jackson, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area.