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


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

Topeka has a population of 145717. 47.7% of Topeka’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.3 are female. 44% of Topeka is married and 58.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $104,381, and the average rent is $815. Household median income in Topeka is $49,647, and the individual median income is $30,379. Topeka’s Ethnic is the following: White(76.6%), Hispanic(15.3%), Black(10.5%), Multiple(5.5%), Other(4.7%), Asian(1.7%), Native(0.9%).


Topeka ( tə-PEE-kə; Kansa: tó ppí kʼé; Iowa-Oto: Dópikˀe or Dópiúkˀe) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the seat of Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 126,587.


The Topeka metropolitan statistical area, which includes Shawnee, Jackson, Jefferson, Osage, and Wabaunsee Counties, had a population of 233,870 in the 2010 census. The name "Topeka" is a Kansa-Osage word that means "place where we dig potatoes", or "a good place to dig potatoes". As a placename, Topeka was first recorded in 1826 as the Kansa name for what is now called the Kansas River.


Topeka's founders chose the name in 1855 because it "was novel, of Indian origin, and euphonious of sound." Mixed-blood Kansa Native American, Joseph James, called Jojim, is credited with suggesting Topeka's name. The city, laid out in 1854, was one of the Free-State towns founded by Eastern antislavery men immediately after the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Bill.


In 1857, Topeka was chartered as a city. The city is well known for the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson and declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional.


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