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Lansing is a city in Leavenworth County, Kansas, on the west bank of the Missouri River, and the second most populous city in the county.

The 2020 census counted 11,239 people in Lansing, living in 3,432 households.

Census QuickFacts counts 3,556 Lansing households for 2020–2024, averaging 2.91 persons per household, and 97.1% of Lansing adults hold at least a high school diploma.

Lansing was platted in 1878 but was not incorporated as a city until 1959.

The city was named for James Lansing — born William Lansing Taylor — a Civil War hospital steward who later worked at the state penitentiary and ran a store in the town.

Lansing is home to the Lansing Correctional Facility, Kansas's largest and oldest prison for adult male felons, spread over 2,537 acres.

The prison was authorized by the 1859 Kansas Constitution; its land was bought on November 19, 1861, convict labor began building it in 1864, and it was first occupied in 1868.

Known for more than a century as the Kansas State Penitentiary, the prison was renamed the Lansing Correctional Facility in the 1990s.

Convict labor also worked a coal mine at the prison, which made early Lansing a shipping point, and the community that grew up beside the prison was called the 'Town of Progress.'

Lansing is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area, across the Missouri River from Missouri.