Joplin (Missouri)
Jasper County Newton County
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Joplin is a city with 47 994 inhabitants ( 2006) in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is located 109 km west of Springfield, 168 km northeast of Tulsa, 91 kilometers north of Rogers, 417 km south-west of St. Louis, and 224 km south of Kansas City, whose metropolitan area and is part of Jasper County and Newton County.
Geography
Joplin geographical coordinates loud 37 ° 5 ' N, 94 ° 31' W37.077777777778 - 94.511111111111 ( 37.077760, -94.511024 ). According to the United States Census Bureau, Joplin has an area of 81.6 km ², of which 81.4 km ² of land and 0.2 km ² omitted ( = 0.25 %) to water. Is drained by the city Joplin Creek, Turkey Creek, Silver Creek and Shoal Creek. Joplin is the center of the locally known as the Four State Area area, the border region between Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas.
Joplin is located just north of Interstate 44 In recent years, the development areas have developed mainly in the north of Webb City. The former U.S. Route 66 runs through Joplin. The name of the city of Joplin is also mentioned in the song named after the road Route 66. In a north-south direction, the city of U.S. Highway 71 and west pass through them Missouri Route 43
Tornado May 22, 2011
Late Sunday afternoon of May 22, 2011, a devastating tornado Level 5 went to the Fujita scale the 50,000 - strong town in the Midwest home. The tornado quickly grew to a width of about 1.6 km and devastated about 25 % of all buildings in its path through the south of the city.
For the first time contact with the ground the tornado had against 15:34 clock local time before he broke up again at 18:12 clock. Overall, the tornado called 162 fatalities. The Joplin tornado is the siebttödlichste all tornadoes ever recorded in the U.S. and also also one of the most expensive ever to have been raging.
National Register of Historic Places
In the National Register of Historic Places, the following grounds and historic districts are registered:
Personalities
Sons and daughters
- Robert Cummings, actor
- Glen Glenn, rockabilly singer
- Jane Grant, journalist and feminist, founder of the New York Newspaper Women's Club and co-founder of The New Yorker
- Langston Hughes, writer of the Harlem Renaissance
- Hale Irwin, the Champions Tour professional golfer
- Jamie McMurray, NASCAR driver
- Charles McPherson, Jazz Musicians
- Carl Pomerance, mathematicians
- Mel Purcell, tennis players
- Dennis Weaver, actor
- Spider Webb, race car driver
- Percy Wenrich, composer
- Christofer Drew Ingle, singer