As of 3:11pm today, phone and internet service has been restored to Joaquin City Hall. Thank you for your patience during the outage.

April 30, 2025 - Joaquin City Hall is open today, April 30, 2025. However phones and internet are down due to a truck breaking the fiber lines. 

The city is taking cash and check payments at the office. 

Please make all credit card payments via their website payment system.

mypaystar.net/cityofjoaquin

April 14, 2025 - Election day for cities and schools in Shelby County will be May 3, 2025. There are three cities and three schools that will be having an election: City of Joaquin, City of Tenaha, City of Timpson, Joaquin ISD, Shelbyville ISD and Timpson ISD.

April 28, 2025 - The Joaquin Volunteer Fire Department (JVFD) responded to a vehicle fire at approximately 12:38pm on April 23, 2024, at 1118 County Road 432.

April 25, 2025 - Amid rampant speculation by the community on Social Media regarding a search performed yesterday, April 24, 2025 on the property of Shelby County Constable Precinct 4 Josh Tipton, the Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed some basic information.

There is an investigation by the Texas Rangers in conjunction with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department which did include a dive team performing a search on the property of Constable Tipton.

April 20, 2025 - Southview Circle in Center was the scene of a two-vehicle crash on Monday, April 14, 2025 at around 6:50am.