La Crosse, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in La Crosse-Brookdale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67548. It stands on Mule Creek. The Survey maps it on the La Crosse quadrangle. 1,266 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,057 feet above sea level.
On record in La Crosse
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
Miller Farmsteadlisted 2012
Rush County Courthouselisted 1972- Sand Creek Tributary Stone Arch Bridgelisted 2014
Population over time
2 figuresLa Crosse fell from 1,342 to 1,266 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,342 | |
| 2020 | 1,266 | -76 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1896 USGS Hays quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Hays quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
16 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of La Crosse between 2017 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Rush County | 43059 |
| 1 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Rush County | 42575 |
| 5 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 183169 |
| 16 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Rush County | 41697 |
| 4 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 3 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Rush County | 40212 |
| 28 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 181928 |
| 9 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Rush County | 39800 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
46 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Crosse in 46 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 29 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2005 | Hail | La Crosse | $500,000 | The hail broke out 20 windows at the Rush county courthouse. Two patrol cars had their windshields broken out. Windows were also broken out of the St. Michaels Catholic Church...along with numerous homes and businesses. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Crosse | $30,000 | Twenty 26 power poles were blown down along highway 183 closing the highway between Rush Center and La Crosse. |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Crosse | $30,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Flood | La Crosse | $12,000 | Water was out of the banks of Sand Creek and flooded some of the streets in the area. |
| May 1998 | Hail | La Crosse | $2,000 | Hail swath of 7 miles wide produced total devastation to some of the native grasses and destroyed most of the wheat. A USDA report indicated some hail up to softball size but gave no specific information. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Crosse | $1,000 | Tree blown down. |
| May 2021 | Hail | La Crosse | - | Most of the hail was dime sized and the hail covered the road. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Crosse | - | Numerous tree limbs were blown down. |
| May 2012 | Tornado (EF2) | La Crosse | - | This tornado may have been another satellite tornado based on spotter video and from the damage survey moved north through trees but yet was east of the larger wedge tornado. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Crosse | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | La Crosse | - | This tornado made brief contact (about 30 seconds). |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F0) | La Crosse | - | This landspout was also witnessed by a pilot |
| July 1999 | Flash Flood | La Crosse | - | Heavy rain flooded and closed the 9th street bridge. |
| July 1999 | Flash Flood | La Crosse | - | Heavy rain flooded the 1st street bridge. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Crosse | - | Power lines and large tree branches down. |
| May 2023 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Crosse | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rush Center | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Bison | 5.9 miles | 14 | |
| Hargrave | 7.4 miles | 14 | |
| Timken | 8.0 miles | 15 | |
| Nekoma | 8.1 miles | 15 | |
| Liebenthal | 8.5 miles | 14 | |
| Loretta | 10.8 miles | 14 | |
| Schaffer | 12.4 miles | 15 |
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 Crosse | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2570337 | The 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 475488. 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.
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.





