Kokomo
city and county-seat of Howard co., Ind.; on the Wildcat river KOLA NUT and at the intersection of several important railroad tant railroad systems; 54 miles N. of Indianapolis. It is the farming trade center for a region within a radius of nearly 20 miles; is the principal city in the natural gas area of Indiana; and is principally engaged in agriculture, stockraising, lumbering and manufacturing.
It has a driven well water system, electric lights and street railroads, National and savings banks, the County Asylum and Orphans ' Home, a public park of about 40 acres, public library, and high 30,067. schools.
Pop. (1910) 17,010; (1920) of Tibet, near the frontier of the Chinese