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Joplin is the main hub of the three-county Joplin-Miami, Missouri-Oklahoma Metro area, which is home to 210,077 people; this makes the city the fifth largest metropolitan area in Missouri. In May 2011, a violent EF5 tornado killed more than 150 people and destroyed one-third of the city.
I-44 approached by US 71 (now part of I-49) just south of Joplin. I-44 enters Missouri in Newton County at the eastern terminus of the Will Rogers Turnpike, 200 yards (180 m) south of the Kansas state line. The first interchange in Missouri is the eastern terminus of both U.S. Route 166 (US 166) and US 400.
U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66) is a former east–west United States Numbered Highway, running from Santa Monica, California to Chicago, Illinois.In Missouri, the highway ran from downtown St. Louis at the Mississippi River to the Kansas state line west of Joplin.
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The Joplin, Missouri-Kansas, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of Jasper, Newton, and Cherokee counties in southwest Missouri and southeast Kansas anchored by the city of Joplin. The estimated 2023 population of the Joplin, MO-KS (MSA) is 204,787.
U.S. 400's eastern terminus approaching I-44 in Newton County, Missouri US 400, along with US 166 , terminates at I-44 about one mile (1.6 km) east of the Kansas- Missouri state line, three miles (5 km) west of Joplin .
Joplin Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri.The district encompasses 48 contributing buildings in the central business district of Joplin.
Eventually Hugh and Lee Anne Howsman purchased the building to house their Howsman's Office Supply and Furniture Co. [9] Over time Howsman's business plan changed and in 2006 they sold the building to the Matt Miller Co. of Springfield, Missouri, [10] who redeveloped the upper stories into lofts and restored the main floor into an events space.