Topeka, Kansas

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Topeka is the capital city of the State of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is situated along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, located in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. The population was 127,473 at the 2010 census.

The name means "to dig good potatoes," given by the Kansa and the Ioway Native Americans after the prairie potato, an herb used for food. First settled by Americans in the 1840s when it was used as a ferry over the Kansas River on the Oregon Trail. In the early 1850s a military road was built through the area. The town was formed here in 1854 when several settlers formed the Topeka Town Association and named it Topeka after the Indian name for the territory. It was incorporated as a city in 1857 Anti-slavery settlers established themselves here and made the city the capital of the anti-slavery government of Kansas. In 1861 when Kansas was admitted as a free state, Topeka was establishes as the state capital. A lawsuit based in Topeka became Brown v the Board of Education, the Supreme Court case that outlawed race based segregation in 1954.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topeka,_Kansas
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Coordinates:   39°2'32"N   95°42'19"W

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  • Topeka is the 195th Largest city in the US.
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