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Lansing is the capital city of the U. S. state of Michigan, and is located mostly in Ingham County. A small portion of the city extends into Eaton County, and a small portion containing Capital City Airport extends into adjacent Clinton County. As of the 2000 census, it has a population of 119,128. The Lansing metropolitan area is remarkable in that despite being a relatively small city it is an important center for manufacturing, educational, cultural, and governmental institutions, including three medical schools, two law schools, a Big Ten Conference university (Michigan State), the state capitol, the Supreme Court, an appellate court, a federal court, the Michigan State Library and Historical Center, and headquarters of four national insurance companies. Michigan Auto Insurance.

Lansing is the only U. S. state capital that is not also a county seat.

History

The area that is now Lansing was originally surveyed in 1825 in what was then some of the thickest, wildest woods in the region. There would be no roads to this area for decades to come.

In the winter of 1835 and early 1836, two brothers from New York plotted the area now known as REO Town just south of downtown Lansing and named it "Biddle City. Create a Journal | Journals Main | Help. " All of this land lay in a floodplain and was underwater during most of the year. Regardless, the brothers went back to New York, specifically Lansing, New York, to sell plots for the town that did not exist. They told the residents of Lansing, New York that this new "city" had an area of 65 blocks, contained a church and also a public and academic square. A group of 16 men bought plots in the nonexistent city and upon reaching the area later that year found they had been scammed. Many in the group too disappointed to stay ended up settling around what is now Metropolitan Lansing.