Cape Girardeau County's commission meets at the 1908 courthouse

Cape Girardeau County’s commission page is a compact lesson in local geography. The county has a presiding commissioner and two associate commissioners, with the commission office at 100 Court Street in the Historic 1908 Courthouse in Jackson.

The county’s name points many newcomers toward Cape Girardeau, the river city. County government, though, is anchored in Jackson. The commission is in session at the courthouse on its regular meeting days. That address puts county business in the courthouse-square pattern, not on Cape’s Mississippi riverfront.

For a resident following county budgets, minutes, road questions, board appointments, or general county business, this is the right civic doorway. Cape Girardeau may be the better-known city, but Jackson is where the county commission layer lives.