Monett is the most-populous city in the Barry and Lawrence counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. The city is located in the Ozarks, just south of Interstate 44 in the middle of Joplin and Springfield. According to the 2020 census, the population of the town was estimated to be 9,576 individuals.

Southwest Missouri, including the Place of what is now Monett, was inhabited by Native Americans of the Osage Nation until their annoyed removal to Indian Territory.

Monett was created as a railroad town by the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (“Frisco Line”), which was outstretched into the Place in 1870, and a branch parentage going to Paris, Texas, was built. Both lines are yet in existence and operated by the BNSF Railway. During this mature the area went through several names including Kings Prairie Depot, Plymouth, Plymouth Junction (when the southern branch was built in 1880), Gonten (named for the local postmaster because the Post Service said there were additional Plymouths); and finally Monett in 1887 in the circulate of the Place was formally platted and the Monett post was applied to the name office. It was named for Henry Monett who was a popular general station agent for various railroads including the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (“Nickel Plate Railroad”) before becoming an agent for the New York Central Railroad quickly before his death at the age of 35 in 1888.

The community was extremely much noted for visceral a rail town and had a Harvey House full of life at the Frisco train station from 1896 until 1930. The community in the Ozark Mountains after that had a rich fruit business and was nicknamed the “Strawberry Capital of the Midwest.” The Ozark Fruit Growers Association building, which was built in 1927, is portion of the Downtown Monett Historic District and is upon the National Register of Historic Places.