Joppa is a village in Massac County, Illinois, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 409 in year 2000. It is part of the Paducah, KY-IL Micropolitan Statistical Area. History During the first 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 couple hundred people living there. Geography Joppa is located at (37.207399, -88.843033). The village lies along the Ohio River downstream from Metropolis, Illinois, and Paducah, Kentucky. 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 2010 census, Joppa has a total area of , of which (or 96.46%) is land and (or 3.54%) is water. Demographics 2010 Whereas according to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau: 360 persons 89.2% White; 85.8% White, non-Hispanic 8.6% Black 0.6% Native American 0.0% Asian 0.0% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander 1.7% Two or more races 0.0% Other races 3.3% Hispanic or Latino (all White) 2000 In 2000, there were 409 people, 165 households, and 110 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 203 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 88.26% White, 7.58% African American, 0.24% Native American, 0.98% from other races, and 2.93% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.44% of the population. There were 165 households, out of which 32.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.5% were married couples living together, 12.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.3% were non-families. 28.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.48 and the average family size was 3.09. In