La Crosse, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1954 1981

La Crosse fell from 360 to 316 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Alachua quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of La Crosse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 461 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Hainesworth
• Hasan
• Hague
• Santa Fe
• Burnetts Lake
• Newnansville

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,236 specimens collected within 10 miles of La Crosse between 1842 and 1975: 989 Animalia, 739 Fungi, 241 Plantae, 221 Protozoa, 30 Unrecorded, 16 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Chapman, A. Gholson Jr., A. Arata and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.	1896	Edmon West	Gainesville
	Ctenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood	1842	F Engel
	Cryptotis parva (Say, 1823)	1860	A. Arata	Gainesville, 6 mi. NW
	Podomys floridanus (Chapman, 1889)	1860	James Layne	Gainesville, 8 mi NW
	Animalia	1873	M. Roberts	Mouth of New R. (Aluchua/Bradford/Union Co. line)
	Paspalum praecox Walter	1889	unknown
	Rottboellia campestris Nutt.	1889	A W Chapman
	Aves	1897	not recorded	Alachua Co
	Elsinoe fawcettii Bitanc. & Jenkins	1907	Rolfs	Alachua
	Corvus brachyrhynchos pascuus Coues, 1899	1908	Oscar E. Baynard
	Fusicladium effusum G.Winter	1908	Fawcett? H. S.	Santa Fe
	Dumortiera hirsuta (Sw.) Nees	1909	R. M. Harper	Devil's Millhopper

All 2,236 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of La Crosse: 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Alachua County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Crosse in 22 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 2 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Alachua County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 285192. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.