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Emporia
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city and county seat of Lyon County, Kansas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kansas
- County
- Lyon
- Type
- Commission-Manager
- Mayor
- Becky Smith
- City manager
- Trey Cocking
- Total
- 12.11 sq mi (31.37 km )
- Land
- 12.00 sq mi (31.07 km )
- Water
- 0.12 sq mi (0.30 km ) 0.6%
- Elevation
- 1,142 ft (348 m)
- Density
- 2,012/sq mi (776.9/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 20-21275
- Website
- emporiaks.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Emporia
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Lyon County
- Population
- 24139
- Area
- 30.940339
- Elevation
- 350
- Capital of
- Lyon County
- Official website
- www.emporia-kansas.gov
- Image
- Downtown Emporia, KS.JPG
- Households
- 10044
- Dialing code
- 620
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- Commons category
- Emporia, Kansas
- topic's main category
- Category:Emporia, Kansas
- postal code
- 66801
- category for people born here
- Q32755575
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Emporia, Kansas
- inception
- 1857-01-01
- P8168
- Digby
- water as percent of area
- 0.9566
- per capita income
- 24287
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Emporia is a city in and the county seat of Lyon County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 24,139. Emporia lies between Topeka and Wichita at the intersection of highways K-99, U.S. Route 50, Interstates 335 and 35 (Kansas Turnpike). It is home to Emporia State University and Flint Hills Technical College, and two annual sporting events: Unbound Gravel (gravel bicycle race) and Dynamic Discs Open (disc golf tournament).
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Emporia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.