Onalaska (Wisconsin)
La Crosse County
55-59925
Onalaska is a city ( with a status of "City" ) in La Crosse County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010 Onalaska had 17,736 inhabitants.
Onalaska is part of the nationwide multi-state metropolitan region La Crosse Metropolitan Area.
Geography
Onalaska is located at the confluence of the Black River in the Lake Onalaska dammed Mississippi, which forms the border with Minnesota. The La Crosse River forms the southeastern city limits. The island of Iceland is French at the level of the Lake Onalaska Stadtzentrumsund limited to the south. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa is located 45 km south.
Onalaska 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 43 ° 53'04 Onalaska are " north latitude and 91 ° 14'06 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 27.79 km ², which at 26.24 km ² land and 1.55 km ² water surface spread. The Town of Onalaska Onalaska surrounds the city from the northwest, north and northeast, without which it belongs to the Town.
Neighboring towns of Onalaska are La Crosse ( on the southern city limits, French Iceland (5,6 km south-west ), La Crescent, Minnesota (13 km south-west on the opposite Mississippi shore ), Dakota in Minnesota ( 16.8 km west-northwest on the opposite Mississippi shore ), Brice Prairie (10 km north-west ), Holmen (9.3 km north- north-west ) and West Salem ( 13.8 km to the east)
The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan ( 318 km east-northeast ), Wisconsin's capital Madison (209 km east-southeast ), Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee ( 328 km in the same direction), Rockford, Illinois (332 km south-east ), the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa (321 km south), Cedar Rapids, Iowa (252 km south-southwest ), Rochester, Minnesota (120 miles west) and the Twin Cities in Minnesota (234 km north-west ).
Traffic
Upstream between the French Onalaska Iceland and the Minnesota Shore at La Crescent is located at Lock and Dam No.. 7 is one of 29 dams that make the upper Mississippi to one of the main inland waterways of the country.
Interstate 90 runs from Minnesota on a bridge over the Mississippi coming in west-east direction along the southern city limits. U.S. Highway 53 runs north -south through Onalaska, before reaching its southern terminus in neighboring La Crosse. The running along the Mississippi Wisconsin State Highway 35 forms the Wisconsin section of the Great River Road. In addition, the coming of Northeast Wisconsin State Highway 16 runs through the city of Onalaska. 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.
On the side opposite to the town of French Iceland the La Crosse Regional Airport ( to the city center via the I 90 7.7 km west distance) is, by the city via shuttle flights to several major airports connection to the national and international air traffic network.
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Onalaska 17,736 people in 7331 households. The population density was 675.9 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 7331 households lived statistically 2.4 persons each.
The racial the population was composed of 90.7 percent white, 1.1 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 5.7 percent Asian and 0.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.6 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
24.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.3 percent were 65 years or older. 52.0 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 59,186. The per capita income was $ 31,391. 6.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Memorable people
- William H. Stevenson (1891-1978) - 1941-1949 Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives - spent his final years in Onalaska and is buried here