West Joplin, Missouri

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 27 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Scottish Rite Cathedrallisted 1990 · 0.2 miles away
• Olivia Apartmentslisted 2008 · 0.3 miles away
• Joplin Carnegie Librarylisted 1979 · 0.3 miles away
• Elks Club Lodge #501listed 1985 · 0.3 miles away
• Ridgway Apartmentslisted 2006 · 0.4 miles away
• St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Buildinglisted 2002 · 0.4 miles away
• Main and Eight Streets Historic Districtlisted 2011 · 0.4 miles away
• Newman Brothers Buildinglisted 1990 · 0.4 miles away
• Fox Theaterlisted 1990 · 0.4 miles away
• Inter-State Grocer Company Buildinglisted 2008 · 0.4 miles away
• Joplin Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2008 · 0.4 miles away
• Joplin Supply Companylisted 2007 · 0.4 miles away

Every listing in Jasper County

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1886 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Joplin West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1980 USGS Joplin West quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:100000

The History of Jasper County, Missouri : Including a Condensed History of the State, a Complete History of Carthage and Joplin, Other Towns and Townships : Together with Numerous Portraits of Prominent Men : Cuts of Elegant Residences and Public Buildings : a Sectional Map of the County : Biographical Sketches of Many Enterprising Farmers, Merchants, Mechanics, Professional, and Business Men : the Constitution of the State : an Abstract of Laws : an Elaborate History of Jasper County - Its Topography, Natural History, Pioneers, Organization, Political History, Courts and Bar, Religious, Educational, Medical, Agricultural, Mining, and Horticultural, Its Commercial and Business Interests, Etc, published 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of West Joplin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 94 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Joplin
• Blendville (historical)
• Chitwood
• East Joplin
• Oakland Park
• Central City

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1,238 workings within 5 miles of West Joplin: 1,234 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Jasper County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 739490. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.