Emporia, Kansas

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Emporia, Kansas is a small city in east-central Kansas known as a regional hub for education, commerce, and transportation on the Great Plains.

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instanceOf city
county seat
areaCode 620
averageJanuaryTemperature around 30 °F
averageJulyTemperature around 80 °F
climate humid subtropical climate
coordinateLatitude 38.4039
coordinateLongitude -96.1817
country United States of America
surface form: United States
distanceTo about 58 miles southwest of Topeka, Kansas
about 88 miles northeast of Wichita, Kansas
elevation about 1,150 feet
founded 1857
governmentType commission-manager government
hasAnnualEvent Dirty Kanza / Unbound Gravel bicycle race
Veterans Day observances
hasEducationalInstitution Emporia State University
Flint Hills Technical College
hasPublicSchoolDistrict Emporia USD 253
hasRiver Cottonwood River
Neosho River
incorporated 1870
isCollegeTownOf Emporia State University
isCountySeatOf Lyon County, Kansas
isRegionalHubFor commerce
education
transportation
knownFor library and information science programs at Emporia State University
teacher education programs at Emporia State University
locatedIn Lyon County, Kansas
locatedInRegion east-central Kansas
locatedOn Great Plains
namedAfter Ancient city of Emporia in North Africa
populationEstimate about 24,000
postalCode 66801
primaryEconomicSectors education
health care
manufacturing
retail trade
region Flint Hills
servedByHighway Interstate 35
U.S. Route 50 NERFINISHED
Federal Highway U.S. Route 99
surface form: U.S. Route 99
servedByRail BNSF Railway
Union Pacific Railroad
state Kansas
timeZone Central Time Zone
timeZoneDST Central Time Zone
surface form: Central Daylight Time

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U.S. Route 50 passesThroughCity Emporia, Kansas