There were 4,178 housing units at an average density of 594.3 per square mile (229.5/km 2). The population density was 1,297.2 inhabitants per square mile (500.9/km 2). Ĭlimate data for Chanute, Kansas, 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1894–presentĭemographics Historical population CensusĪs of the census of 2010, there were 9,119 people, 3,720 households, and 2,322 families residing in the city. The hottest temperature recorded in Chanute was 116 ☏ (46.7 ☌) on July 18, 1936, while the coldest temperature recorded was −23 ☏ (−30.6 ☌) on January 30, 1949. Climate Īccording to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Chanute has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Geography Īccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.15 square miles (18.52 km 2), of which 7.03 square miles (18.21 km 2) is land and 0.12 square miles (0.31 km 2) is water. In September 2011 Spirit AeroSystems announced the expansion of an assembly facility which will grow to 150 employees in five years and boost the local economy. Ash Grove Cement Company, the sixth largest cement manufacturer in North America, commenced cement manufacture in 1908 in Chanute. In 1903, the City of Chanute established the electric utility, and in the years to follow, established the gas, water, wastewater, refuse utilities. In 1887, Chanute boasted a rapid growth in flourmills, grain elevators, banks, drug and hardware stores, and natural gas. With the Southern Kansas Railroad locating a division headquarters in Chanute, the city began to flourish. On Januthe towns merged and became Chanute. In 1872, he suggested the towns merge to end the bickering. Octave was the Chief Engineer and General Superintendent of the LL&G Railroad. The towns were unable to settle their differences until an individual by the name of Octave Chanute came to town.
With the LL&G Railroad set to arrive shortly thereafter, the early residents of the towns of Tioga, Chicago Junction, Alliance, and New Chicago needed an innovative solution to an escalating dispute over which town would claim the right to house the LL&G Railroad's new land office. Settlers had begun populating the area as early as 1856. Two years of the most bitter animosity ensued until the four were consolidated in 1872, and the name of Chanute given it in honor of Octave Chanute, a railroad civil engineer.
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 within the limits of Neosho county four rival towns sprang up, in the vicinity of the junction: New Chicago, Chicago Junction, Alliance, and Tioga.
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