Emporia
[key], city (2020 pop. 24,139), 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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