JOPLIN

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JOPLIN , a city of Jasper county, Missouri, U.S.A., on Joplin
creek, about 140 M. S. of Kansas City. Pop. (189o), 9943 (1900), 26,023, of whom 893 were foreign-born and 773 were
negroes; (1910 census) 32,073. It is served by the Missouri Pacific, the St Louis & San Francisco, the Missouri, Kansas
&

Texas

TEXAS

, and the Kansas City Southern railways, and by interurban electric lines. The city has a fine court-

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

, a United States government building, a

Carnegie

CARNEGIE
CARNEGIE, ANDREW (1837– )

library and a large auditorium. Joplin is the

trade

centre of a

rich

agricultural and fruit-growing

district

DISTRICT

, but its growth has been chiefly due to its situation in one of the must productive zinc and lead regions in the country, for which it is the commercial centre. In 1906 the value of zinc-ore shipments from this Missouri-Kansas (or Joplin)

district

DISTRICT

was $12,074,105, and of shipments of lead ore, $3,048,558. The value of Joplin's factory product in 1905 was $3,006,203, an increase of 19'3% since 1900. Natural gas, piped from the Kansas fields, is used for light and power, and electricity for commercial lighting and power is derived from plants on

Spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

River, near Vark, Kansas, and on Shoal creek. The municipality owns its electric-lighting plant; the water-works are under private ownership. The first

settlement

SETTLEMENT
SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

in the neighbourhood was made in 1838. In 1871 Joplin was laid out and incorporated as a town; in 1872 it and a rival town on the other side of Joplin creek were united under the name Union City; in 1873 Union City was chartered as a city
under the name Joplin; and in 1888 Joplin was chartered as a city of the third class. The city derives its name from the creek, which was named in honour of the Rev. Harris G. Joplin (c. 18101847), a native of

Tennessee

TENNESSEE

.

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