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La Crosse, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ellaville South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31806. The Survey maps it on the Andersonville quadrangle. It stands 522 feet above sea level.

La Crosse within Schley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 printed sheets

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.

Fires near this place

229 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 229 fires within 5 miles of La Crosse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 777 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 10 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning147
Equipment and vehicle use20
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Natural14
Arson/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Smoking9
Recreation and ceremony5

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-SUMTER-002
9 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-SCHLEY-004
6 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2013Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-SUMTER-001
25 September 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020SCHLEY003
25 September 1996Debris and open burning3.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-SCHLEY-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schley County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of La Crosse: 4 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Kaolin, Aluminum, Kaolin. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Holloway PropertyAluminum, KaolinProspect
G.W. Holloway PropertyAluminum, KaolinProspect
Gammage PropertyAluminum, KaolinProspect
Ideal MineAluminum, KaolinPast Producer
W.H. Childers PropertyAluminum, KaolinProspect

Every working recorded in Schley County

Storms near this place

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Crosse in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2016Thunderstorm WindLa Crosse$5,000The Schley County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down across the county, including along Highway 26 near the Marion County line, around the intersection of Concord Church Road and Bridges Store Road, Highway 153 southwest of Ellaville and at Highway 19 and Heath Road.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindLa Crosse$5,000The Schley County 911 center reported several trees and power lines down on Heath road and several more trees down near Highway 271 and Highway 19.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLa Crosse$3,000The Schley County Regional 911 Center reported that at least five trees were down near Ellaville and one tree was down near LaCrosse. In addition, several shingles were blown off a home in Ellaville.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindLa Crosse$2,000The Schley County 911 Center reported that a number of trees were blown down in the east and southeast part of the county, especially along Georgia Highway 26 east of Ellaville.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindLa Crosse$2,000The Schley County Emergency Management Director reported that between 5 and 15 trees were down the far southeast part of the county near the Sumter county line.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindLa Crosse$250The 911 center reported a tree fell on Candy Cane Lane.
March 2023HailLa Crosse-Half dollar sized hail reported along HWY 228 near LaCross Rd.

Every storm recorded in Schley County

Nearest settlements

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

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bumphead2.0 miles7
Ellaville5.1 miles7
Walls Crossing8.3 miles8
Murrays Crossroads9.7 miles8
Concord11.3 miles8

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on La CrosseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14686692The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326357. 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.

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.