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JOPLIN , a See also:city of See also:Jasper See also:county, See also:Missouri, U.S.A., on Joplin
See also:creek, about 140 M. S. of See also:Kansas City. Pop. (189o), 9943 (1900), 26,023, of whom 893 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 773 were
negroes; (1910 See also:census) 32,073. It is served by the Missouri Pacific, the St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis & See also:San Francisco, the Missouri, Kansas
& See also:Texas, and the Kansas City See also:Southern See also:railways, and by interurban electric lines. The city has a See also:fine See also:court-See also:house, a See also:United States See also:government See also:building, a See also:Carnegie library and a large auditorium. Joplin is the See also:trade centre of a See also:rich agricultural and See also:fruit-growing See also:district, but its growth has been chiefly due to its situation in one of the must productive See also:zinc and See also:lead regions in the See also:country, for which it is the commercial centre. In 1906 the value of zinc-ore shipments from this Missouri-Kansas (or Joplin) 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 See also:gas, piped from the Kansas See also:fields, is used for See also:light and See also:power, and See also:electricity for commercial See also:lighting and power is derived from See also:plants on See also:Spring See also:River, near Vark, Kansas, and on Shoal creek. The See also:municipality owns its electric-lighting plant; the See also:water-See also:works are under private ownership. The first See also:settlement in the neighbourhood was made in 1838. In 1871 Joplin was laid out and incorporated as a See also:town; in 1872 it and a See also:rival town on the other See also:side of Joplin creek were united under the name See also: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 See also:honour of the Rev. See also:Harris G. Joplin (c. 1810—1847), a native of See also:Tennessee.
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