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Newton County's flag is a map of its communities

Newton County's official flag uses stars to represent its cities and villages, including a northwest cluster for the Joplin-area suburbs inside the county.

Newton County’s official website tells a civic-geography story through its county flag. The county says its commission authorized the first official county flag in 2011. The design uses a blue field with gold stars scattered across it, with the stars representing the villages, towns, and cities of Newton County.

The largest star is slightly off center for Neosho, the county seat. The county also says the cluster of stars in the northwest corner represents the part of Joplin and its suburbs that lie inside Newton County.

That is a useful visual clue for newcomers. Newton County is not only Neosho, and it is not only the Newton County side of Joplin. Its official list includes places such as Diamond, Fairview, Granby, Seneca, Newtonia, Redings Mill, Saginaw, Shoal Creek Drive, and other villages and localities.

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Neosho's Lampo Building turns an old garage into a city venue The City of Neosho says the Lampo Building at 500 E. Spring Street began as Lampo Garage and Lampo Salvage in 1938 and is now a reservable city facility. Crowder College makes Neosho a regional campus town Crowder College's main campus is in Neosho, giving Newton County a community-college anchor that serves a wider southwest Missouri region. George Washington Carver National Monument sits in Newton County, near Diamond The George Washington Carver National Monument near Diamond, in Newton County, is a National Park Service site that preserves the farm where Carver was born and grew up. Newton County Emergency Management is not at the default office address Newton County's office directory lists most county offices at 101 South Wood Street, but Emergency Management is listed separately at 202 West Brook Street in Neosho.

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