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East Lansing, Michigan

East Lansing, Michigan
City
Beaumont Tower at Michigan State University
Beaumont Tower at Michigan State University
Location in Michigan
Location in Michigan
East Lansing, Michigan is located in the US
East Lansing, Michigan
East Lansing, Michigan
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 42°44′5.28″N 84°28′50.88″W / 42.7348000°N 84.4808000°W / 42.7348000; -84.4808000Coordinates: 42°44′5.28″N 84°28′50.88″W / 42.7348000°N 84.4808000°W / 42.7348000; -84.4808000
Country United States
State Michigan
Counties Ingham, Clinton
Settled 1847
Incorporation 1907
Government
 • Type Council-manager
 • Mayor Mark S. Meadows
 • City Manager George Lahanas
Area
 • Total 13.67 sq mi (35.41 km2)
 • Land 13.59 sq mi (35.20 km2)
 • Water 0.08 sq mi (0.21 km2)
Elevation 856 ft (261 m)
Population (2010)
 • Total 48,579
 • Estimate (2014) 48,648
 • Density 3,574.6/sq mi (1,380.2/km2)
Time zone EST (UTC-5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP codes 48823-48826
Area code(s) 517
FIPS code 26-24120
GNIS feature ID 0625219
Website www.cityofeastlansing.com

East Lansing is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan directly east of Lansing, the state capital. Most of the city is within Ingham County, with the rest in Clinton County. The population was 48,579 at the 2010 census, an increase from 46,420 in 2000. It is best known as the home of Michigan State University.

East Lansing was an important junction of two major Native American groups: the Potawatomi and Fox. By 1850, the Lansing and Howell Plank Road Company was established to connect a toll road to the Detroit and Howell Plank Road, improving travel between Detroit and Lansing, which cut right through what is now East Lansing. The toll road was finished in 1853, and included seven tollhouses between Lansing and Howell.

Michigan State University was founded in 1855 and established in what is now East Lansing in 1857. For the first four decades, the students and faculty lived almost entirely on the college campus. A few commuted from Lansing, and that number increased when a streetcar line was built in the 1890s, but there were few places to live in the then-rural area immediately around the campus.

That started to change in 1887, when professors William J. Beal and Rolla C. Carpenter created Collegeville, along what is now Harrison Road and Center and Beal Streets, north of Michigan Avenue. Few faculty were attracted to the location, and the first residents were "teamsters and laborers". In 1898, the College Delta subdivision (including what is now Delta Street) had the support of the college itself, which provided utilities, and several professors built homes there (one of which survives today at 243 W. Grand River Ave.). Other subdivisions followed.


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