Chanute, Kansas Chanute, Kansas Aerial view of Chanute (2013) Aerial view of Chanute (2013) Location inside Neosho County and Kansas Location inside Neosho County and Kansas Chanute is a town/city in Neosho County, Kansas, United States.
Founded on January 1, 1873, it was titled after barns engineer and aviation pioneer Octave Chanute. As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 9,119. Chanute is home of Neosho County Community College.
Oilfield near Chanute (1908) 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 inside the limits of Neosho county four rival suburbs 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 merged in 1872, and the name of Chanute given it with respect to Octave Chanute, a barns civil engineer. Although Chanute was not established until 1873, pioneer had begun populating the region as early as 1856.
With the LL&G Railroad set to arrive shortly after that, the early inhabitants of the suburbs of Tioga, Chicago Junction, Alliance, and New Chicago needed an innovative solution to an escalating dispute over which town would claim the right to home the LL&G Railroad's new territory office.
The suburbs were unable to settle their differences until an individual by the name of Octave Chanute came to town.
On January 1, 1873 the suburbs consolidated and became chartered as the City of Chanute.
With the Southern Kansas Railroad locating a division command posts in Chanute, the town/city began to flourish.
In 1887, Chanute boasted a rapid expansion 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 biggest cement manufacturer in North America, and the biggest US-owned cement company, commenced cement manufacture in 1908 in Chanute.
Chanute is one of only a handful of remaining full-service metros/cities in the State of Kansas.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 7.15 square miles (18.52 km2), of which, 7.03 square miles (18.21 km2) is territory and 0.12 square miles (0.31 km2) is water. There were 3,720 homeholds of which 32.4% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 44.1% were married couples living together, 12.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.7% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 37.6% were non-families.
25.3% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 10.5% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 23% were from 25 to 44; 24.5% were from 45 to 64; and 16.8% were 65 years of age or older.
As of the census of 2000, there were 9,411 citizens , 3,864 homeholds, and 2,496 families residing in the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 25.2% under the age of 18, 10.1% from 18 to 24, 25.2% from 25 to 44, 20.5% from 45 to 64, and 18.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
Chanute enhance schools (Unified School District No.
413) include one elementary school, one middle school, and one high school.
Chanute's elementary school is Chanute Elementary School.
Chanute's middle school is Royster Middle School.
Chanute's high school is Chanute High School.
Chanute's enhance school fitness also includes Chanute High School-affiliated New Beginnings Academy, a program for students lacking credits to graduate and designed for individuals who have dropped out or are in danger of dropping out of high school.
High school credits for New Beginnings Academy are provided by Chanute High School.
Chanute is home to two private schools: Saint Patrick Catholic School and Chanute Christian Academy.
Saint Patrick Catholic School provides schooling for students from pre-school (ages three to four) through the fifth undertaking while Chanute Christian Academy (CCA) provides schooling for students from kindergarten through the twelfth grade.
The Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) recognizes Saint Patrick Catholic School as an accredited, non-public school.
Chanute Christian Academy is not listed as an accredited school on the KSDE website. Chanute's only college is the Neosho County Community College known locally as NCCC, or sometimes as NC3.
The Chanute region has many tourist attractions known for their historical significance.
Chanute Art Gallery The Chanute Art Gallery includes more than 1,500 square feet of exhibit region and homes a Permanent Core Collection of more than 500 works of art that includes 25 mediums, representing 135 artists.
Chanute Historical Museum The Chanute Historical Museum is generally known as the Flat Iron Building, this unusual structure is now home to a exhibition featuring Chanute artifacts.
It homes a large genealogy compilation and various artifacts from Chanute's colorful history, including an extensive compilation of MKT Railroad memorabilia.
Members of the Chanute Historical Society opened the exhibition in June 2005.
Chanute's wonderful downtown is filled with historic buildings, most of which have been restored to their initial beauty.
Chanute also has a several examples of WPA projects.
The Cardinal Drug Store in downtown Chanute is the home of one of the earliest initial soda fountains in Kansas.
The 160-foot bowstring arch design spanned the Neosho River east of what is now Chanute.
A Federal grant, Neosho County and the City of Chanute funded the project. Summit Hill Gardens was the first school in Neosho County.
Chanute Wright Brothers Memorial Located in the heart of downtown, this sculpture was dedicated as t to the improve in September 2003 by the Chanute High School Class of 1941.
The sculpture honors engineer and town/city namesake, Octave Chanute, and the Wright Brothers.
Chanute was a mentor to Wilbur and Orville Wright and very influential in the early days of flight exploration.
Major highways running through Chanute are north-south route US-169 and east-west route K-39 (East-West).
Chanute is also inside 10 miles of two other primary north-south highways: US-75 and US-59.
Bus service is provided northward towards Kansas City, Missouri and southward towards Tulsa, Oklahoma by Jefferson Lines (subcontractor of Greyhound Lines). The South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad (SKO) serves Chanute, as well as Southern and Eastern Kansas and Northern Oklahoma.
Chanute's Martin Johnson Municipal Airport is a general aviation airport with a 4,255-foot runway and taxiway.
In October 2014, the City of Chanute announced it prepared to establish a municipal-operated broadband network, offering 1 Gigabit Internet connectivity for about US$40 per month.
AT&T, which presently offers only 6 megabit DSL service to the town (at a higher price), filed a petition with the Kansas Corporation Commission to intervene in the city's proposed offering, arguing it has the right to intervene since a 1947 law requires the Commission to approve any bond copy the town/city would use to finance the construction. In April 2015, incoming town/city commissioners voted not to copy bonds and to temporarily halt the plans on municipal directed broadband, pending further enhance discussion and a enhance vote Eden Ahbez (1908 1995), songwriter and mystic, lived in Chanute in his youth as George Mc - Grew Kustom Amplification, had a factory in Chanute.
National Register of Historic Places listings in Neosho County, Kansas a b "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"2010 City Population and Housing Occupancy Status".
Chanute History Archived September 1, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
https://stpatrickschoolchanute.com/index.html Archived October 6, 2007, at the Wayback Machine., St Patrick School Chanute, KS Chanute Tribune.
Chanute Tribune.
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