Jasper County Courthouse

Historical marker location:

711 Virginia Avenue, Joplin, Missouri

( Marker is on Virginia Avenue south of 7th Street (Missouri Route 66), on the left when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1994

Joplin, Missouri.

Missouri was admitted to the Union as the 24th state on August 10, 1821, becoming the first state entirely west of the Mississippi River.