4. a moral fall, as from rectitude or virtue. 5. a fall or decline to a lower grade, condition, or degree: a lapse into savagery. 6. the act of falling, slipping, sliding, etc., slowly or by degrees. 7. a falling into disuse.
Topeka (/toÊËpiËkÉ/; Kansa: TÃ³ Pee Kuh) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the seat of Shawnee County. It is situated along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, located in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 127,473.
In the later 1880s the railroads reached Carson County. By 1886 the Southern Kansas Railway, a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, had built from Kiowa, Kansas, to the Texas-Indian Territory border. The Southern Kansas of Texas Railway was formed to extend the line into Texas.