Joppa is a village in Massac County, Illinois, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 409 in year 2000. It is share of the Paducah, KY-IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.

During the first of the 19th century, a riverboat landing known as Copeland’s Landing operated at what is now Joppa. In the into the future 1870s, A.J. Kuykendall, a prominent local home 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 unprejudiced Israel). After the coming on 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 wandering a lot of population and stores, now forlorn having a theoretical and couple hundred people busy there.

Joppa is located at 37°12′27″N 88°50′35″W / 37.20750°N 88.84306°W / 37.20750; -88.84306 (37.207399, -88.843033). The village lies along the Ohio River downstream from Metropolis, Illinois, and Paducah, Kentucky. County Road 5 connects Joppa afterward U.S. Route 45 close Metropolis to the east. The Joppa Generating Station, a coal and natural gas capability plant operated by Electric Energy, Inc., lies just west of the village.

According to the 2010 census, Joppa has a total Place of 0.508 square miles (1.32 km), of which 0.49 square miles (1.27 km²) (or 96.46%) is land and 0.018 square miles (0.05 km) (or 3.54%) is water.