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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.

La Crosse within Rush County

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

Population over time

2 figures

La 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,342
20201,266-76 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

16 since 2017

Regional 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRush County43059
1 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresRush County42575
5 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service183169
16 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRush County41697
4 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
3 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreRush County40212
28 May 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service181928
9 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRush County39800

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rush County

Storms near this place

46 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2005HailLa Crosse$500,000The 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 2006Thunderstorm WindLa Crosse$30,000Twenty 26 power poles were blown down along highway 183 closing the highway between Rush Center and La Crosse.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindLa Crosse$30,000no account filed
May 2008FloodLa Crosse$12,000Water was out of the banks of Sand Creek and flooded some of the streets in the area.
May 1998HailLa Crosse$2,000Hail 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 1997Thunderstorm WindLa Crosse$1,000Tree blown down.
May 2021HailLa Crosse-Most of the hail was dime sized and the hail covered the road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLa Crosse-Numerous tree limbs were blown down.
May 2012Tornado (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 2011Thunderstorm WindLa Crosse-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
May 2008Tornado (EF0)La Crosse-This tornado made brief contact (about 30 seconds).
June 2004Tornado (F0)La Crosse-This landspout was also witnessed by a pilot
July 1999Flash FloodLa Crosse-Heavy rain flooded and closed the 9th street bridge.
July 1999Flash FloodLa Crosse-Heavy rain flooded the 1st street bridge.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLa Crosse-Power lines and large tree branches down.
May 2023HailLa Crosse-no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLa Crosse-no account filed
July 2011HailLa Crosse-no account filed
May 2008HailLa Crosse-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindLa Crosse-no account filed
August 2006HailLa Crosse-no account filed
June 2004HailLa Crosse-no account filed
June 2004HailLa Crosse-no account filed
July 2004HailLa Crosse-no account filed
June 2004HailLa Crosse-no account filed
August 2004HailLa Crosse-no account filed
August 2004HailLa Crosse-no account filed
July 2003HailLa Crosse-no account filed
April 2001HailLa Crosse-no account filed
May 2001HailLa Crosse-no account filed
May 2001HailLa Crosse-no account filed
June 2000HailLa Crosse-no account filed
May 1999HailLa Crosse-no account filed
June 1998HailLa Crosse-no account filed
March 1998HailLa Crosse-no account filed
May 1998HailLa Crosse-no account filed
July 1998HailLa Crosse-no account filed
June 1998HailLa Crosse-no account filed
August 1997HailLa Crosse-no account filed
June 1996HailLa Crosse-no account filed
June 1996HailLa Crosse-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindLa Crosse-no account filed
July 1996HailLa Crosse-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindLa Crosse-no account filed
August 1996HailLa Crosse-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindLa Crosse-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rush 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
Rush Center4.6 miles15
Bison5.9 miles14
Hargrave7.4 miles14
Timken8.0 miles15
Nekoma8.1 miles15
Liebenthal8.5 miles14
Loretta10.8 miles14
Schaffer12.4 miles15

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 Q2570337The 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.