Editing La Harpe, Kansas

{{Short description|City in Allen County, Kansas}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}
{{Infobox settlement
|name                     = La Harpe, Kansas
|settlement_type          = [[City]]

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|image_caption            = Aerial View of La Harpe (2013)
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|map_caption              = Location within [[Allen County, Kansas|Allen County]] and [[Kansas]]
|image_map1               = Map of Allen Co, Ks, USA.png
|map_caption1             = [[Kansas Department of Transportation|KDOT]] map of [[Allen County, Kansas|Allen County]] ([[:File:Kansas official transportation map legend.png|legend]])

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|subdivision_type         = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
|subdivision_name         = United States
|subdivision_type1        = [[U.S. state|State]]
|subdivision_name1        = [[Kansas]]
|subdivision_type2        = [[List of counties in Kansas|County]]
|subdivision_name2        = [[Allen County, Kansas|Allen]]

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|established_title        = Founded
|established_date         = 1881
|established_title1       = [[Platted]]
|established_date1        = 1881
|established_title2       = [[Municipal corporation|Incorporated]]
|established_date2        = 1905
|named_for                = [[La Harpe, Illinois]]

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|area_total_sq_mi         = 0.80
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|elevation_ft             = 1030

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|population_as_of         = [[2020 United States census|2020]]
|population_total         = 480
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|timezone                 = [[Central Time Zone|CST]]
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|postal_code_type         = [[ZIP code]]
|postal_code              = 66751
|area_code_type           = [[North American Numbering Plan|Area code]]
|area_code                = [[Area code 620|620]]
|blank_name               = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
|blank_info               = 20-37725
|blank1_name              = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS ID]]
|blank1_info              = 485604<ref name="GNIS">{{GNIS|485604}}</ref>
|website                  = {{URL|https://www.cityoflaharpe.org/|cityoflaharpe.org}}
}}

'''La Harpe''' is a [[city]] in [[Allen County, Kansas|Allen County]], [[Kansas]], United States.<ref name="GNIS"/>  As of the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]], the population of the city was 480.<ref name="Census-2020-Profile">{{cite web |title=Profile of La Harpe, Kansas in 2020 |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=1600000US2037725 |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=June 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220624012006/https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=1600000US2037725 |archive-date=June 24, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==History==
La Harpe was founded by the Fort Scott, Wichita & Western Railroad company (later the Missouri Pacific), and was platted in 1881.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.allencounty.org/laharpe1.html | title=La Harpe | publisher=Allen County | accessdate=18 May 2014}}</ref> It was named after [[La Harpe, Illinois]] and they both commemorate a prominent French explorer of the southern Great Plains of North America, [[Bernard de la Harpe]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4776 | title=Profile for La Harpe, Kansas | publisher=[[ePodunk]] | accessdate=29 June 2014}}</ref>

When [[natural gas]] was discovered in the immediate vicinity in 1899 the city began to grow more rapidly and soon rose to be a city of importance. It was incorporated as a city of the second class, and in 1910 had some of the largest zinc smelters in the world, two banks, an opera house, several good mercantile establishments, a newspaper, and all the municipal improvements usually found in cities of that class. The population that year was 2,080. Its post office, first opened in November 1881,<ref>{{Cite web| title=Kansas Post Offices Database| url=http://www.kshs.org/genealogists/places/postoffices.htm| publisher=Kansas State Historical Society| accessdate=2007-12-15}} Containing information taken from {{Cite book| first=Robert W| last=Baughman| title=Kansas Post Offices, May 29, 1828–August 3, 1961| publisher=Kansas Postal History Society}}</ref> was authorized to issue international money orders, and two rural routes supplied mail to the surrounding country.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia| editor=Frank W. Blackmar| title=La Harpe| url=http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/l/laharpe.html| accessdate=2007-12-15| encyclopedia=Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc ...| volume=II| publisher=Standard Pub Co| location=Chicago| year=1912| pages=92| date=| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203055213/http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/l/laharpe.html| archivedate=2007-12-03| url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Geography==
La Harpe is situated along [[U.S. Route 54]] in the central part of Allen County, La Harpe is about {{frac|5|1|2}} miles east of the city of [[Iola, Kansas|Iola]] (the [[county seat]]), {{frac|2|1|2}} miles east of [[Gas, Kansas|Gas]], and about seven miles west of the junction of U.S. Routes 54 and [[U.S. Route 59|59]] and the city of [[Moran, Kansas|Moran]].

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|0.82|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, all of it land.<ref name="Gazetteer files">{{cite web|title=US Gazetteer files 2010 |url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |accessdate=2012-07-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125061959/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt |archivedate=2012-01-25 }}</ref>

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|align=left
|1900= 610
|1910= 2080
|1920= 1001
|1930= 756
|1940= 624
|1950= 511
|1960= 529
|1970= 509
|1980= 687
|1990= 650
|2000= 706
|2010= 578
|2020= 480
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|footnote=[https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html U.S. Decennial Census]
}}
===2020 census===
The [[2020 United States census]] counted 480 people, 207 households, and 133 families in La Harpe.<ref>{{Cite web |title=US Census Bureau, Table P16: HOUSEHOLD TYPE |url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=La%20Harpe%20city,%20Kansas%20p16&y=2020 |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=data.census.gov}}</ref><ref name=:0 /> The population density was 602.3 per square mile (232.5/km{{sup|2}}). There were 234 housing units at an average density of 293.6 per square mile (113.4/km{{sup|2}}).<ref name=:0>{{Cite web |title=US Census Bureau, Table DP1: PROFILE OF GENERAL POPULATION AND HOUSING CHARACTERISTICS |url=https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALDP2020.DP1?q=La%20Harpe%20city,%20Kansas%20dp1 |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=data.census.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |publisher=United States Census Bureau |title=Gazetteer Files |url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/2020/geo/gazetter-file.html |access-date=2023-12-30 |website=Census.gov}}</ref> The racial makeup was 92.71% (445) [[White (U.S. Census)|white]] or [[European American]] (91.88% [[Non-Hispanic White|non-Hispanic white]]), 0.21% (1) [[African American (U.S. Census)|black]] or [[African American|African-American]], 1.88% (9) [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]], 0.42% (2) [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.0% (0) [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]] or [[Native Hawaiian]], 0.42% (2) from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 4.38% (21) from [[Multiracial Americans|two or more races]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=US Census Bureau, Table P1: RACE |url=https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALPL2020.P1?q=La%20Harpe%20city,%20Kansas%20p1&y=2020 |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=data.census.gov}}</ref> [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race was 2.29% (11) of the population.<ref>{{Cite web |title=US Census Bureau, Table P2: HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE |url=https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALPL2020.P2?q=La%20Harpe%20city,%20Kansas%20p2&y=2020 |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=data.census.gov}}</ref>

Of the 207 households, 28.5% had children under the age of 18; 47.3% were married couples living together; 17.9% had a female householder with no spouse or partner present. 29.5% of households consisted of individuals and 8.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.<ref name=:0 /> The average household size was 2.5 and the average family size was 2.9.<ref>{{Cite web |title=US Census Bureau, Table S1101: HOUSEHOLDS AND FAMILIES |url=https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST5Y2020.S1101?q=La%20Harpe%20city,%20Kansas%20s1101%20&y=2020 |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=data.census.gov}}</ref> The percent of those with a bachelor’s degree or higher was estimated to be 5.6% of the population.<ref>{{Cite web |title=US Census Bureau, Table S1501: EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT |url=https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST5Y2020.S1501?q=La%20Harpe%20city,%20Kansas%20s1501%20&y=2020 |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=data.census.gov}}</ref>

19.8% of the population was under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 21.9% from 25 to 44, 30.2% from 45 to 64, and 19.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44.7 years. For every 100 females, there were 103.4 males.<ref name=:0 /> For every 100 females ages 18 and older, there were 96.4 males.<ref name=:0 />

The 2016-2020 5-year [[American Community Survey]] estimates show that the median household income was $34,583 (with a margin of error of +/- $4,323) and the median family income was $43,125 (+/- $18,550).<ref>{{Cite web |title=US Census Bureau, Table S1903: MEDIAN INCOME IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS (IN 2020 INFLATION-ADJUSTED DOLLARS) |url=https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST5Y2020.S1903?q=La%20Harpe%20city,%20Kansas%20s1903%20&y=2020 |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=data.census.gov}}</ref> Males had a median income of $27,292 (+/- $7,377) versus $17,130 (+/- $3,177) for females. The median income for those above 16 years old was $21,797 (+/- $5,632).<ref>{{Cite web |title=US Census Bureau, Table S2001: EARNINGS IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS (IN 2020 INFLATION-ADJUSTED DOLLARS) |url=https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST5Y2020.S2001?q=La%20Harpe%20city,%20Kansas%20s2001%20&y=2020 |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=data.census.gov}}</ref> Approximately, 10.1% of families and 12.5% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 20.5% of those under the age of 18 and 8.9% of those ages 65 or over.<ref>{{Cite web |title=US Census Bureau, Table S1701: POVERTY STATUS IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS |url=https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST5Y2020.S1701?q=La%20Harpe%20city,%20Kansas%20s1701%20&y=2020 |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=data.census.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=US Census Bureau, Table S1702: POVERTY STATUS IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS OF FAMILIES |url=https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST5Y2020.S1702?q=La%20Harpe%20city,%20Kansas%20s1702&y=2020 |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=data.census.gov}}</ref>

===2010 census===
As of the [[census]]<ref name ="wwwcensusgov">{{cite web|title=U.S. Census website|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=2012-07-06}}</ref> of 2010, there were 578 people, 234 households, and 161 families residing in the city. The [[population density]] was {{convert|704.9|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|1}}. There were 273 housing units at an average density of {{convert|332.9|/sqmi|/km2|1}}. The racial makeup of the city was 93.6% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 1.4% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 1.2% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.9% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 1.0% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]], and 1.9% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 1.6% of the population.

There were 234 households, of which 28.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.6% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 12.0% had a female householder with no husband present, 7.3% had a male householder with no wife present, and 31.2% were non-families. 26.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 2.91.

The median age in the city was 42.2 years. 22.3% of residents were under the age of 18; 9% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 24.1% were from 25 to 44; 27.9% were from 45 to 64; and 16.8% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 52.1% male and 47.9% female.

===2000 census===
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=2008-01-31|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref> of 2000, there were 706 people, 268 households, and 191 families residing in the city. The population density was {{convert|819.4|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 298 housing units at an average density of {{convert|345.9|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the city was 93.77% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.99% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 2.12% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], and 3.12% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 0.85% of the population.

There were 268 households, out of which 35.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.1% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 9.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.4% were non-families. 23.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.63 and the average family size was 3.08.

In the city, the population was spread out, with 28.6% under the age of 18, 9.8% from 18 to 24, 29.6% from 25 to 44, 21.4% from 45 to 64, and 10.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 103.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.8 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $24,219, and the median income for a family was $32,981. Males had a median income of $22,102 versus $16,058 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the city was $12,196. About 8.9% of families and 13.4% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 16.1% of those under age 18 and 11.8% of those age 65 or over.

==Education==
La Harpe is a part of [[Unified School District|USD]] 257 Iola. The Iola High School mascot is Mustangs.<ref>{{cite web | title = Iola USD 257| publisher = USD 257 | url = http://www.usd257.org/ | accessdate = 6 January 2017}}</ref>

La Harpe schools were closed through school unification. The La Harpe High School mascot was La Harpe Panthers.<ref>"LaHarpe Items", The Iola Register, 7 December 1944, p.6.</ref>

==Notable people==
* [[Ad Brennan]], baseball player

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
{{See also|Allen County, Kansas#Further reading|l1=List of books about Allen County, Kansas}}

==External links==
* [https://www.cityoflaharpe.org/ City of La Harpe]
* [https://www.lkm.org/members/?id=41260809 La Harpe - Directory of Public Officials]
* [https://www.usd257.org/ USD 257], local school district
* [https://www.ksdot.org/Assets/wwwksdotorg/bureaus/burTransPlan/maps/city-pdf/gas.pdf La Harpe city map], KDOT

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