La Harpe, KS

La Harpe is a city in Allen County, Kansas, United States. The 2020 census counted 480 residents. La Harpe was founded by the Fort Scott, Wichita & Western Railroad company, and was platted in 1881. La Harpe was named after La Harpe, Illinois and they both commemorate a prominent French explorer of the southern Great Plains of North America, Bernard de la Harpe. La Harpe is a part of USD 257 Iola. The Iola High School mascot is Mustangs. The short version is that La Harpe carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now.

That is the local read on La Harpe: its past remains attached to the places people use now. La Harpe is situated along U.S. Route 54 in the central part of Allen County, La Harpe is about 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles east of Iola, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles east of Gas, and about seven miles west of the junction of U.S. Routes 54 and 59 and Moran.