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Chanute, KS - History


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


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

Chanute has a population of 9044. 46.5% of Chanute’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.5 are female. 48.6% of Chanute is married and 64.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $70,672, and the average rent is $598. Household median income in Chanute is $45,238, and the individual median income is $25,487. Chanute’s Ethnic is the following: White(94.9%), Hispanic(8.1%), Multiple(3%), Black(1.1%), Native(0.5%), Other(0.4%), Asian(0.1%).


In 1870 when the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Rail Road (later the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, now the BNSF Railway) crossed the Missouri, Kansas and Texas line within the limits of Neosho county four rival towns sprang up, in the vicinity of the junction: New Chicago, Chicago Junction, Alliance, and Tioga.


Two years of the most bitter animosity ensued until the four were consolidated in 1872, and the name of Chanute given it in honor of Octave Chanute, a railroad civil engineer.Settlers had begun populating the area as early as 1856. With the LL&G Railroad set to arrive shortly thereafter, the early residents of the towns of Tioga, Chicago Junction, Alliance, and New Chicago needed an innovative solution to an escalating dispute over which town would claim the right to house the LL&G Railroad's new land office.


The towns were unable to settle their differences until an individual by the name of Octave Chanute came to town. Octave was the Chief Engineer and General Superintendent of the LL&G Railroad. In 1872, he suggested the towns merge to end the bickering. On January 1, 1873 the towns merged and became Chanute.With the Southern Kansas Railroad locating a division headquarters in Chanute, the city began to flourish.


In 1887, Chanute boasted a rapid growth in flourmills, grain elevators, banks, drug and hardware stores, and natural gas. In 1903, the City of Chanute established the electric utility, and in the years to follow, established the gas, water, wastewater, refuse utilities. Ash Grove Cement Company, the sixth largest cement manufacturer in North America, commenced cement manufacture in 1908 in Chanute.


In September 2011 Spirit AeroSystems announced the expansion of an assembly facility which will grow to 150 employees in five years and boost the local economy.


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