Editing Mulvane, Kansas (section)

==History==
[[File:Stouffer's Railroad Map of Kansas 1915-1918 Sedgwick County.png|thumb|left|1915 Railroad Map of Sedgwick County]]
Mulvane was laid out in 1879<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Qi9cXyTWt9EC | title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Volume 2 | publisher=Standard Publishing Company | author=Blackmar, Frank Wilson | year=1912 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Qi9cXyTWt9EC/page/n322 332]}}</ref><ref name="Mulvane-History"/> at the junction of five [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway|Santa Fe]] rail lines.  It is named for Joab R. Mulvane, a railroad official who was instrumental in bringing the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad to Mulvane.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_fk0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA637 | title=History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: Past and Present | publisher=Windmill Publications | author=Bentley, Orsemus Hills | year=1910 | pages=637}}</ref>

Mulvane was changed to a city of the second class on December 20, 2001.<ref name="Mulvane-History">{{cite web |title=History of Mulvane |url=https://www.mulvanechamber.com/history-of-mulvane/ |website=City of Mulvane |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240117065731/https://www.mulvanechamber.com/history-of-mulvane/ |archive-date=January 17, 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2008 and 2009, the city annexed land towards the west side of [[Interstate 35 in Kansas|I-35]] ([[Kansas Turnpike]]), then the [[Kansas Star Casino]] opened on it in 2011.<ref name="Mulvane-CDP-2013">{{cite web |title=Comprehensive Development Plan for the Mulvane Area, Kansas 2013—2023 |url=https://www.mulvanekansas.com/egov/documents/0d164b29_dd2f_ecc3_088e_e1d2d0f4176a.pdf |website=City of Mulvane |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240117070800/https://www.mulvanekansas.com/egov/documents/0d164b29_dd2f_ecc3_088e_e1d2d0f4176a.pdf |archive-date=January 17, 2024 |date=2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>