Joplin, Missouri Joplin, Missouri Aerial view of downtown Joplin, 2009.
Joplin (/ d pl n/) or (/ pl n/) is a town/city in southern Jasper County and northern Newton County in the southwestern corner of the U.S.
Joplin is the biggest city in Jasper County, though it is not the governmental center of county (the governmental center of county is Carthage).
As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 50,150. Joplin is the chief hub of the three-county Joplin-Miami, Oklahoma urbane area.
Lead was identified in the Joplin Creek Valley before the Civil War, but only after the war did momentous evolution take place.
Cox filed a plan for a town/city on the east side of the valley. Cox titled his village Joplin City after the spring and creek nearby, which had been titled for the Reverend Harris G.
Joplin, who settled upon its banks about 1840. Carthage resident Patrick Murphy filed a plan for a town/city on the opposite side of the valley and titled it Murphysburg. While the nearest sheriff was in Carthage, frontier lawlessness abounded in Joplin.
The metros/cities eventually consolidated into Union City, but when the consolidation was found illegal, the metros/cities split.
Murphy suggested that a combined town/city be titled Joplin.
The metros/cities consolidated again on March 23, 1873, this time permanently, as the City of Joplin. While Joplin was first settled for lead mining, zinc, often referred to as "jack", was the most meaningful mineral resource.
As barns s were assembled to connect Joplin to primary markets in other cities, it was on the brink of dramatic growth.
Joplin's three-story "House of Lords" was its most famous saloon, with a bar and restaurant on the first floor, gambling on the second, and a brothel on the third.
Trolley and rail lines made Joplin the core of southwest Missouri.
As a result of extensive surface and deep mining, Joplin is dotted with open-pit mines and mine shafts.
Joplin began to add cultural amenities; in 1902, inhabitants passed a tax to problematic a enhance library, and attained matching funds that enabled them to build the Carnegie Library.
Bonnie and Clyde, photo advanced by the Joplin Globe after the shootout In 1933 amid the Great Depression, the notorious criminals Bonnie and Clyde spent some weeks in Joplin, where they robbed a several area businesses.
Bonnie and Clyde escaped after killing Newton County Constable John Wesley Harryman and Joplin Police Detective Harry Mc - Ginnis; however, they were forced to leave most of their possessions behind, including a camera. The Joplin Globe advanced and printed the film, which showed now-legendary photos of Bonnie holding Clyde at mock gunpoint, and of Bonnie with her foot on a car fender, posed with a pistol in her hand and cigar in her mouth.
The roads provided improved access between cities, but they also drew off populace to newer housing and eventually retail centers.
Christman's Department Store stands (converted into loft apartements), as does the Joplin Union Depot, since barns revamping and the diminish in passenger traffic led to its closure.
Other notable historic structures in Joplin include the Carnegie Library, Fred and Red's Diner, the Frisco Depot, the Scottish Rite Cathedral, and the Crystal Cave (filled in and used for a parking lot).
On May 5, 1971, Joplin was hit by a harsh tornado, resulting in one death and 50 injuries, along with primary damage to many homes and businesses. On November 11, 1978, Joplin's once-stately Connor Hotel, which was slated for implosion to make way for a new enhance library, collapsed suddenly and prematurely.
The town/city has two primary hospitals which serve the Four States region, Freeman Health System and Mercy Hospital Joplin, the latter replacing St.
The city's park fitness has nearly 1,000 acres (400 ha) and includes a golf course, three swimming pools, 15 miles (24 km) of walking/biking trails, the world's biggest remaining globally unique Chert Glades and Missouri's first Audubon Nature Center positioned in Wildcat Park.
Numerous buildings in Joplin have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places for their historic and architectural significance. The town/city has undertaken a primary universal to revitalize its Main Street downtown district, which lies on the historic Route 66.
It has refurbished building facades, sidewalks, and added old-styled lamp posts, flower baskets, and benches to highlight the historic center of the city.
Numerous trucking lines such as CFI (now Con-Way Truckload) are headquartered in town, as the town/city is situated near the geographic and populace centers of the nation.
Eagle-Picher Industries, TAMKO Building Products, AT&T Communications, and FAG Bearings are noted employers in Joplin, and Leggett & Platt (a Fortune 500) is positioned in close-by Carthage.
The town/city is served by the Joplin Regional Airport positioned north of town near Webb City.
Numerous suburbs adjoining to the town/city include Carl Junction, Webb City, Duenweg, Duquesne, Airport Drive, Oronogo, Carterville, Redings Mill, Shoal Creek Drive, Leawood, and Saginaw.
Due to its locale near two primary highways and its many event and sports facilities, Joplin attracts travelers and is a destination for conferences and group affairs.
Joplin offers nearly 2,500 hotel rooms, the majority positioned inside a 1/4-mile region of Range Line Road and I-44.
In 2011, due to the devastating EF5 tornado that hit Joplin on May 22, just three weeks before the run, the event was transformed in the Boomtown Run Day of Service.
On August 7, 2012, the Village of Silver Creek and the City of Joplin voted to have Silver Creek took in into Joplin City limits.
See also: 2011 Joplin tornado On May 22, 2011, an EF5 tornado touched down near the edge of the town/city among large, newer homes, about 5:21 pm CDT (22:34 UTC) and tracked eastward athwart the town/city and athwart Interstate 44 into non-urban portions of Newton and Lawrence Counties.
About 8,400 homes, 18,000 cars, and 450 businesses were flattened or blown away in Joplin, especially in the section between 13th and 32nd Streets athwart the southern part of the city.
The small-town high school, Joplin High School, was totally destroyed, as well.
Communications were lost and power was knocked out to many areas. An official statement from the National Weather Service has categorized the tornado as an EF5. On Sunday, May 29, President Barack Obama, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon, and Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Craig Fugate visited and toured Joplin to see what the damage looked like and attended a memorial service for the deceased.
Later that day, the town/city held a moment of silence at 5:41 pm, to mark the time the tornado struck.
In July 2011, the City of Joplin entered into a contractual agreement with Wallace Bajjali Development Partners, L.P., a master developer business from Sugar Land, Texas, hired to assist in nearly $800 million in ongoing standard accomplishments over the next five years.
Approved by the people, additional projects intended to spur expansion and economic expansion included the assembly of a $40 million performing and cultural arts center, a new and period public library and theatre facility, renovation of the historic downtown Union Depot, and a merged postal service and state government complex, among other town/city amenities of trails, sidewalks, transportation, and park enhancements.
City Manager Mark Rohr said, "this accomplishment is the greatest opportunity the town/city has ever seen." Among other resources and support from governmental agencies, the Economic Development Administration provided $20 million to construct a new Joplin Library and a two-year funding agreement to hire a disaster recovery coordinator to help coordinate the city's nearly $850 million in immediate restoration and recovery accomplishments. In the summer of 2012, the United States Housing and Urban Development Department awarded a $45 million improve evolution block grant for ongoing standard accomplishments and in 2013 awarded another $113 million. In May 2013, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources awarded Wildcat Glades Conservation and Audubon Center $500,000 for help with the restoration of the urban forest, which was passed through to the City of Joplin as a subgrant; 1,500 large-calibre trees were planted in the tornado zone and along an urban stream, Joplin Creek. Local government for the City of Joplin is provided through a nine-member town/city council, whose members are propel by voters citywide, with four seats being assigned to designated geographic zones of the city.
City council members include the city's mayor, who is responsible for serving as meeting chair and official spokesman for the town/city council; and the mayor pro tem, who is responsible for performing the mayor's duties in the latter's absence.
Following the April 2016 town/city elections, the town/city council members included: Law enforcement services are provided by the Joplin Police Department. On the state-level, the town/city is represented in the Missouri House of Representatives by Republican Bill White of the 161st District, although a small portion of the town/city lies inside the 162nd District represented by Republican Charlie Davis, and in the Missouri Senate by Republican Ron Richard. The town/city also lies inside Missouri's 7th congressional district, presently represented by Billy Long (R-Springfield).
Joplin is positioned at 37 4 40 N 94 30 40 W (37.077760, 94.511024). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 35.68 square miles (92.41 km2), of which 35.56 square miles (92.10 km2) is territory and 0.12 square miles (0.31 km2) is water. The town/city is drained by Joplin, Turkey, Silver and Shoal Creeks.
Joplin is the center of what is regionally known as the Four State Area: Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas.
Joplin is positioned north of I-44, its passage to the west into Oklahoma.
In recent years, the residentiary evolution of Joplin has spread north to about Webb City.
Route 66 once passed through Joplin, and the town/city is mentioned in the song "Route 66".
Joplin has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa), as defined by the Koppen climate classification system, with cool, dry winters and hot, humid summers; the harsh weather season from April through June is the wettest time of year.
On average, 51 days of 90 F (32 C)+ highs, 3.5 days of 100 F (38 C)+ highs, 14 days where the high fails to rise above freezing, and 1.9 evenings of sub-0 F ( 18 C) occur per year. It has an average annual rain of 46.5 inches (1,180 mm), including an average 11.9 inches (30 cm) of snow.
Extremes in temperature range from 21 F ( 29 C) on February 13, 1905 up to 115 F (46 C) on July 14, 1954; the last 10 F ( 23 C) or below and the last 110 F (43 C)+ reading occurred on February 3 and August 2, 2011, in the order given.
The town/city is positioned in tornado alley.
Several storms have hit the city, including an F3 tornado in 1971, a tornado in 1973, an EF1 tornado on May 8, 2009, a blizzard on February 1, 2011, an EF5 tornado on May 22, 2011, and more.
Climate data for Joplin, Missouri (1981 2010 normals) Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 2.2 1.6 .9 0 0 0 0 0 0 .1 .4 2.0 7.1 According to the City's 2010 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 3 Mercy Hospital Joplin 2,480 4 Joplin School District 1,200 13 City of Joplin 563 Joplin is home to 11 enhance elementary schools in the Joplin R-VIII School District: Cecil Floyd, Columbia, Eastmorland, Irving, Jefferson, Kelsey Norman, Mc - Kinley, Royal Heights, Soaring Heights, Stapleton, and West Central.
It has three enhance middle schools, East, North, and South, and one high school, Joplin High School.
The first high school was established in 1885 and was positioned at the intersection of West 4th Street and Byers Ave. The JHS student populace was nearly 2,200 kids in the 2008 2009 school year. A school bond copy for $57.4 million was passed in April 2007, allowing the precinct to build two new middle schools (East and South Middle Schools) to replace the old Memorial and South Middle schools, and to give a primary renovation and double the size of North Middle School. Joplin also has many private schools, such as College Heights Christian School, Martin Luther School, Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School, Christ's Community Discovery School, and more.
Carnegie Library in Joplin, 2009 Today, Joplin is home to Missouri Southern State University, established in 1937 as a junior college and period in the following decades.
Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences announced in March 2015 its intention to establish a ground in Joplin with a large osteopathic medicine program, to be positioned in Mercy Hospital-Joplin's former long-term temporary locale near the site of the finished St.
Joplin is also home to technical schools including Franklin Technology Center, Vatterott College, and WTI. Joplin is served by the Joplin Public Library, situated on Main Street between the intersections of 3rd and 4th Streets.
Built in 1981, the current library sits on the historic locale of Joplin's most famous landmark, the Connor Hotel, which came crashing down in 1978, one day before its scheduled demolition.
In 2013, the Economic Development Administration awarded the town/city $20 million to relocate the dated library to a new facility along 20th Street, in the heart of the tornado area.
Joplin is served by the mainline of the Kansas City Southern (KCS) barns , as well as by branchlines of the BNSF Railway and Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad (MNA).
The town/city was once a beehive of barns activity; however, many of the initial barns lines serving Joplin, such as the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad, were abandoned after the demise of the quarrying and industrialized enterprises.
The Missouri and North Arkansas had connected Joplin with Helena, Arkansas.
The Joplin Union Depot is still endured along the KCS mainline, and accomplishments are underway to restore it.
Even with the diminish in some rail lines in and around Joplin amid the past five decades, many of the initial lines still remain.
Aside from the former Frisco Railroad route from Joplin to Webb City and the Carthage to Wichita, KS, lines that have since been converted into bike/hike trails, most of the initial routes still remain in place under the control of the BNSF, KCS, and M&NA barns companies.
Interstate 44 joins Joplin with Springfield and St.
Route 71 runs east of the city, connecting Joplin to Kansas City to the north and Fort Smith, Arkansas, to the south.
The segment from Kansas City to Joplin was designated Interstate 49 on December 12, 2012. Joplin once boasted an extensive street car and inter-urban rail system.
In addition, the Joplin Regional Airport provides multiple daily roundtrip flights to Dallas/Fort Worth directed by Envoy Air as American Airlines.
1890 Schifferdecker Home in Joplin, 2010 Scottish Rite Cathedral in Joplin, 2010 Historic precinct at 5th and Main in Joplin, 2010.
Langston Hughes, poet and writer, for whom Langston Hughes Broadway in Joplin is titled Dale Jackson, Baptist minister and ethicist, lived in Joplin with his wife when they were newly married in 1949 Oliver Winfield Killam, Texas petroleum industrialist, former Oklahoma state legislator, lived in Joplin Eddie Peck, actor, was raised in Joplin, graduated from Parkwood High School Louis Cardinals; adopted Joplin as his hometown Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead, comic strip fictional characters (according to creator Chic Young, as cited by the Joplin Globe newspaper, August 1946) "2010 City Population and Housing Occupancy Status".
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"City of Joplin CAFR" (PDF).
Joplin Schools Website, School Information Archived March 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
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City of Joplin Historic Joplin website on Joplin history.
Historic maps of Joplin in the Sanborn Maps of Missouri Collection at the University of Missouri
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