Joplin

Joplin, Montana

Elevation: 3,287

Population: 278

County: Liberty

Current Conditions
54 °F
Today
57 °F / 31 °F
Sunday
44 °F / 31 °F
Monday
51 °F / 33 °F
Tuesday
61 °F / 36 °F

About Joplin, Montana

Joplin is a Hi-Line train station where hopeful homesteaders arrived to settle on "free land". The post office opened in 1910 as they arrived, most from Missouri, Minnesota or North Dakota. This part of Montana, formerly a battleground of Piegan, Blood, and Gros Ventre Indians, became a land where homesteaders battled the elements and grasshoppers. (from Cheney's Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company)