Lane is a city in Franklin County, Kansas, United States.

Robert Simerwell established a Baptist Mission Station "on the south side of Pottawatomie Creek" following the Potawatomie Trail of Death.

[4] When the Federal Government moved the Potawatomie (and the Baptist Mission) to the Kansas River valley in the mid-1840s, brothers William, Peter, and "Dutch" Henry Sherman were left as the first permanent settlers.

[5] The community was known as Dutch Henry's Crossing because a wagon road forded the creek near the Sherman cabin.

[5] The area of Lane west of Kansas Avenue was originally laid out under the name Shermanville in 1855.

[6][7] When the Missouri Pacific Railroad arrived in 1879, a competing community, called either Emerson or Avondale, was laid out east of Kansas Avenue.

[8][9] Within two years the competition between the two towns ceased, and both townsites had merged into the single community of Lane.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.24 square miles (0.62 km2), all land.

[11] The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.

[12] The 2020 United States census counted 241 people, 100 households, and 64 families in Lane.

28.0% of households consisted of individuals and 8.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

About 11.4% of families and 12.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.1% of those under the age of 18 and none of those 65 and older.

Lane is a part of Central Heights USD 288 school district, headquarters located in Richmond.