Rolla (Missouri)

Phelps County

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Rolla is a small town in the U.S. state of Missouri and the administrative center ( county seat ) of Phelps County. Rolla has about 16,000 inhabitants and is situated at the foot of the Ozarks.

The city is home to the University of Missouri - Rolla, a distributed a total of four in the state campus of the University of Missouri with a specialization in mining.

Since 1998, Rolla maintains a partnership with the Thuringian town Sondershausen. In Rolla is a facility of the pet food company Royal Canin.

Sons and daughters of the town

Claire McCaskill (* 1953), politician and U.S. Senator
John Lott ( born 1959 ), mathematician and professor
Shannon Miller ( b. 1977 ), gymnast

County (United States) Phelps County (Missouri) Federal Information Processing Standards John Lott (mathematician)

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