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Joiner is a small city in southern Mississippi County, Arkansas, at the intersection of U.S. Highway 61 and Arkansas Highway 118, in the fertile Delta farmland near the Mississippi River and south of Memphis, Tennessee.

The town's name traces to the family of Rufus L. Joiner, a prominent local farmer — one account links the name to a Joiner hotel, while a Dr. D. C. Joyner practiced medicine in the same area, and the similar surnames have blurred the story ever since.

Executives of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (the Frisco) decided to name their new station Joiner after an evening of dining at the Joiner family home, and when the station was established in 1903, it was the southernmost depot in Mississippi County by 1910.

Joiner was granted a post office in 1904, and its first postmaster, John T. Lee, at first served patrons from an open bedroom window of his home, with the sorted mail spread out on his bed.

The railroad turned a scattering of farms into a shipping point for crops and timber, and Joiner incorporated on March 20, 1922, with Newt Lee as its first mayor.

Joiner's Shawnee School was formed in 1925 by consolidating five small schools serving Bassett, Wardell, Joiner, Frenchman's Bayou, and Bardstown, and it served the community for decades.

Joiner was repeatedly struck by fire: four major fires hit the town in 1947–48, a fire destroyed the school gymnasium in 1950, and two more fires in 1953 destroyed a grocery and part of the school.

The 2020 census counted 498 residents in Joiner, down from 576 in 2010; the city peaked at 839 people in 1970 and covers just 0.62 square miles.

As the importance of the railroad faded and farming changed, Joiner shrank, and the Frisco depot that had launched the town's economy was eventually abandoned and demolished.

Joiner was the birthplace of Alvin S. Bennett (1926–1989), a record company executive for whom the character Alvin of Alvin and the Chipmunks was named.