Joppa is a village in Massac County, Illinois, United States, along the Ohio River.

After the arrival of the railroad in 1900, the village thrived for several years as a river-to-rail transloading station.

[3] Joppa has since lost a lot of population and stores, now only having a school and a few hundred people living there.

[4] 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.