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Lansing, KS - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Lansing  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Lansing Home page. The Lansing Home page provides as much information as possible on Lansing. Knowing Lansing’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Lansing’s Home page, you will also find Lansing’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Lansing has a population of 11955. 61% of Lansing’s inhabitants are Male, and 39 are female. 47.8% of Lansing is married and 75.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $177,713, and the average rent is $1,109. Household median income in Lansing is $87,154, and the individual median income is $29,945. Lansing’s Ethnic is the following: White(71.6%), Black(17.2%), Hispanic(8.3%), Multiple(5.2%), Asian(3.8%), Other(1.8%), Native(0.4%).


Lansing is named for James Lansing, a pioneer settler. Formerly William Lansing Taylor, James changed his name upon his enlistment in 1862 as a hospital steward in the 7th Kansas Cavalry. Following the Civil War, he earned a position at the new state penitentiary in Kansas as a hospital steward. He later resigned and opened a general mercantile store, which held the post office and an apothecary business, in the area called “Town of Progress”.


“Doc Lansing”, as he became known, and his friend John C. Schmidt became co-owners of 90 acres (360,000 m2) of land that was platted into town lots in 1878; they named the area “Town of Lansing”. Lansing did not become an incorporated city until 1959.The Kansas State Penitentiary, later renamed the Lansing Correctional Facility in 1990, was authorized by the Kansas Constitution in 1859; it is the state's largest and oldest facility for detention and rehabilitation of male adult felons.


With the opening of the coal mine at the prison the town became an important shipping point for this product.Lansing was ranked 88 in the top 100 of Money Magazine's 2007 list of best places to live.


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