La Crosse (Wisconsin)
La Crosse County
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La Crosse is a city ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of La Crosse County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, La Crosse had 51 320 inhabitants.
La Crosse is the center of nationwide transnational metropolitan region of La Crosse Metropolitan Area. The city is also the seat of the Diocese of La Crosse.
Geography
La Crosse is located at the confluence of the Black River and La Crosse River in the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Minnesota. The island of Iceland is French a few kilometers upstream of the town center and partly belongs to the city. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa is located 35.3 km south view.
La Crosse is located in the Driftless Area mentioned glacially shaped region that stretches across the southeastern Minnesota, southwestern Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa and extreme northwestern Illinois. In the last ice age, the Wisconsin Glaciation so-called, the region remained free of ice, so that the river valleys were cut deep into the plateau during this time.
The geographical coordinates of La Crosse are 43 ° 48'48 " north latitude and 91 ° 13'59 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 57.4 km ² to 52.2 km ² land and 5.2 km ² water surface spread.
Neighboring towns of La Crosse Onalaska French and Iceland ( on the northern city limits ), Holmen ( 23.8 north ), West Salem (21,8 km northeast), Coon Valley ( 25.7 km southeast), Stoddard (17 km south) and La Crescent, Minnesota ( on the opposite bank of the Mississippi ).
The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan ( 325 km east-northeast ), Wisconsin's capital Madison (199 km east-southeast ), Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee ( 339 km in the same direction), Rockford, Illinois (325 km south-east ), the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa (312 km south), Cedar Rapids, Iowa ( 253 km south-southwest ), Rochester, Minnesota (124 km west-northwest ) and the Twin Cities in Minnesota (241 km north-west ).
Economy and infrastructure
Today, La Crosse is home to two major hospitals and some schools, such as the Western Technical College, Viterbo University, the University of Wisconsin -La Crosse and the Aquinas High School. Important business include the Trane Air Conditioning Company, the City Brewing Company and the Company Store and the La Crosse Tribune, which also all have their headquarters in the city.
The ship traffic on the Mississippi, one of the main inland waterways of the country, plays an important role even today.
Interstate 90 runs from Minnesota on a bridge over the Mississippi coming in west-east direction along the northern boundary. The running on a common route U.S. highways 14 and 61 arrive from the southeast to the city and leave at the height of the center this on the Cass Street Bridge toward Minnesota. U.S. Highway 53 in La Crosse reaches its southern terminus. To the south runs along the Mississippi Wisconsin State Highway 35 forms the Wisconsin section of the Great River Road. Besides reached in La Crosse still coming from the Northeast Wisconsin State Highway 16 and the coming from the east Wisconsin State Highway 33 west their respective endpoints. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
Along the Mississippi runs for freight railway line of the BNSF Railway, the second largest railway company in the country. In the north of the city crosses a line of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
On here leased by the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks runs the Empire Builder, a long-distance train from Amtrak, which runs from Chicago to Seattle and Portland on the West Coast. In La Crosse Amtrak has a station.
In French Iceland in the north of the urban area of the La Crosse Regional Airport is (11,5 km to the north of the city center ), through which the city has about connecting flights to several major airports connection to the national and international air traffic network.
History
The original name of the city was Prairie La Crosse, a trading and supply station French trader on the Mississippi, as the first white man came to the region in the 17th century. The name goes back to the originally operated by the Indians ball game lacrosse.
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in La Crosse 51 320 people in 21,428 households. The population density was 983.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 21,428 households lived statistically 2.18 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 89.8 percent white, 2.3 percent African American, 0.6 percent Native American, 4.9 percent Asian and 0.4 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
16.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 70.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.1 percent were 65 years or older. 52.1 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 39,014. The per capita income was $ 21,295. 23.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Twinning
The city of La Crosse maintains partnerships with the following cities:
- Ireland Bantry, Ireland
- Russia Dubna, Russia
- France Epinal, France
- Germany Friedberg, Germany
- Norway Forde, Norway
- People's Republic of China Luoyang, China
- Cameroon Kumbo, Cameroon
Sons and daughters of the town
- Louis Tomlinson Benezet, educator, education policy and multiple university president
- Ed Gein, serial killer
- Joseph Losey, film producer
- Patrick J. Lucey, Governor of Wisconsin
- Jason Miller, Mixed Martial Arts Fighter
- Mike O'Callaghan, Governor of the State of Nevada
- John Joseph Paul (1918-2006), Bishop of La Crosse
- Freddie Slack, pianist, and big band leader
- Ford Sterling, actor and film director
- Clark Wallace Thompson, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
- John Toland, historian and writer