Lansing, Iowa Lansing, Iowa Lansing is a city in Lansing Township, Allamakee County, Iowa, United States. The population was 999 at the 2010 census. Lansing was platted about 1851. The city was so named because the first settler was a native of Lansing, Michigan. Joseph "Diamond Jo" Reynolds, namesake of the famous Diamond Jo steamship line, built his first boat in Lansing and named it for the town. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, is land and is water. Mount Hosmer is located on the north end of Lansing. As of
Robert Lansing , Lansing backed Woodrow Wilson in issuing three notes of protest to the German government. William Jennings Bryan resigned as Secretary of State following Wilson's second note, which Bryan considered too belligerent. Lansing replaced Bryan, and said in his memoirs that following the "Lusitania" tragedy he always had the "conviction that we would ultimately become the ally of Britain". In 1916 Lansing hired a handful of men who became the State Department's first special agents in the new Bureau of Secret Intelligence. These agents were initially used to observe the activities of the Central Powers in America, and later to