About Crowder College

Crowder College is a public community speculative in Neosho, Missouri. It serves the Community College District of Newton and McDonald counties in southwestern Missouri and further outlying areas. Established in 1963 upon the grounds of the former Fort Crowder, the school grants certificates, diplomas, and associate degrees. Its state honors General Enoch Crowder, a prominent Missourian, soldier, and statesman, as with ease as the veterans of World War I, who conventional their training at Fort Crowder. The Longwell Museum, located in the Crowder College Elsie Plaster Community Center, has many displays and artifacts from the Fort Crowder days, when greater than 50,000 soldiers were stationed there. The college enrolled 4,398 in 2019.

Neosho (/niːˈoʊʃoʊ/; originally Siouan pronunciation: [niˈoʒo] or Siouan pronunciation: [niˈoʒu]) is the most populous city in Newton County, Missouri, United States, which it serves as the county seat. With a population of 11,835 as of the 2010 census, the city is a part of the Joplin, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region bearing in mind an estimated 176,849 (2011) residents. Neosho lies upon the western edge of the Ozarks.

The name “Neosho” is generally fashionable to be of Native American (most likely Osage) derivation, meaning “clear, cold water”, referring to local freshwater springs. The springs attracted changing cultures of Native American inhabitants for thousands of years. It was next ideal for the later white settlers, who founded the city in 1833. It was incorporated as a municipal meting out in 1878. Nicknamed “City of Springs”, Neosho has long served as an agricultural middle and, since 1888, is house of the Neosho National Fish Hatchery, the oldest in the National Fish Hatchery System. It is known locally as the “Gateway to the Ozarks”, and back 1957 as “the Flower Box City”.