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
Lansing, Michigan academic square. 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. Those who stayed quickly renamed the area "Lansing Township" in honor of their home village in New York. The settlement of fewer than 20 people would remain dormant until the winter of 1847 when the state constitution required the capital be moved from Detroit to a more central and safer location in the state's interior; many were concerned about Detroit's