Work, Live and Play in Neosho

A Place to Call Home

You've made the leap and have decided to lay down roots in our beautiful community. We want to equip you with the reasons and resources that will help make our city feel more like your hometown. From outstanding schools to city-sponsored sports programs to walking trails, parks, and play areas, Neosho offers its residents many reasons to feel at home wherever they find themselves in town.

Neosho, Missouri is beautiful. Our community is built on family values, a rich history, and hard-working, down-to-earth people. The rolling hills create a neighborhood setting where daily life is inviting and comfortable. You will find a mixture of architectures as new blends with historic.

Housing here is very affordable. The Neosho Area Chamber of Commerce also keeps a list of potential landlords and their contact information if you are interested in rental housing.

Out your front door

The Fish Hatchery grounds are open to visitors year round, and nothing in town is more than a short drive away.

Spring Valley Golf Club is eighteen holes a few minutes off I-49, and the original nine were laid out in 1924 by Perry Maxwell — the architect behind Southern Hills and Prairie Dunes. It is a better course than a town this size has any right to.

Big Spring Park sits in the middle of town, fed by the springs that gave Neosho its name as the City of Springs. It has the floral clock, the 1920s Grecian stage, the trout and koi pond that generations of children have fed, and a wading pool for the little ones.

Morse Park is the big one — nearly 400 acres, the largest park in the city, with Hickory Creek running through it. The creek is a designated White Ribbon Trout Stream holding brown and rainbow trout and bass, and it's fishable year round, with catch-and-keep from 1 March to 31 October. There's an all-accessible fishing dock.

A 1.73-mile paved trail for walking and cycling follows the creek, with a recent 1,600-foot loop added, and work is under way to extend it all the way to the Fish Hatchery. The park also holds the Neosho Disc Golf Course, the High Ground Bike Preserve, the skate park, five baseball and softball fields, five soccer fields, a basketball court and sand volleyball.

It takes its name from Delbert and Olive Morse, whose stock farm stood there. The city leased the land in 1961 for a dollar a year and bought it outright later that decade.

The Freeman Health System Performing Arts Center at Neosho High School opened in 2023 with a 1,500-seat hall. It carries the school's own concerts and productions, and it's big enough to bring touring plays, musicals and concerts into town — which for a community this size is not a small thing.

Crystal Springs Park and Benton Park round out the city's parks, and the city pools run through the summer. Details and shelter bookings are on the City of Neosho's parks pages.