Emporia

Emporia sits on the Neosho River in east-central Kansas, where the Flint Hills’ tallgrass prairie begins west of town. The city developed as a regional centre for the surrounding ranching and farming country. Emporia State University traces its origins to 1863, when it was founded as the Kansas State Normal School. The town is also associated with William Allen White, the influential editor of the Emporia Gazette, and with Unbound Gravel, an annual long-distance cycling event on the area’s unpaved roads. The river corridor and open prairie give Emporia a distinctly inland Kansas character. See how Emporia connects with the Neosho River valley and Flint Hills by browsing webcams nearby.

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