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Emporia (Kansas)

Emporia

Emporia (empôr'ēu) [key], city (1990 pop. 25,512), seat of Lyon co., E central Kans., in the Flint Hills between the Neosho and Cottonwood rivers; inc. 1857. It is a commercial and shipping (railroad and highway) center for a large cattle and farm area. It has grain elevators, stockyards, industries processing beef and soybeans, and plants that make printing equipment, engines, and baked goods. William Allen White made the small-town Emporia Gazette a nationally known newspaper. Emporia State Univ. is in the city.

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