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Joppa is a village in Massac County, Illinois, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 350 as of the 2020 census. It is part of the Paducah, KY-IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.

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History

During the first part of the 19th century, a riverboat landing known as Copeland’s Landing operated at what is now Joppa. In the early 1870s, A.J. Kuykendall, a prominent local land owner, and Jesse Baccus, who operated a local sawmill, decided to establish a town. They named the town after the Biblical city of Joppa (in modern Israel). After the arrival of the railroad in 1900, the village thrived for several years as a river-to-rail transloading station. Joppa incorporated in 1901. Joppa has since lost a lot of population and stores, now only having a school and a few hundred people living there.

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Geography

Joppa is located in western Massac County at 37°12′27″N 88°50′35″W / 37.20750°N 88.84306°W / 37.20750; -88.84306 (37.207399, -88.843033). The village lies along the Ohio River downstream from Metropolis, Illinois, and Paducah, Kentucky. Metropolis is 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Joppa, and Paducah is 20 miles (32 km) to the southeast. County Road 5 connects Joppa with U.S. Route 45 near Metropolis to the east. The Joppa Generating Station, a coal and natural gas power plant operated by Electric Energy, Inc., lies just west of the village.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Joppa has a total area of 0.50 square miles (1.29 km), of which 0.02 square miles (0.05 km), or 3.57%, are water.

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