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1963 Map of La Crosse

Name: 1963 Topographic Map of La Crosse
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1967
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1967

About this map

The confluence of the Black River and the La Crosse River marks a landscape of dramatic coulees and ridges in the early 1960s. This survey illustrates the urban expansion of La Crosse and Onalaska as they climb the surrounding bluffs, including Granddad Bluff and Cliffwood Bluff. The regional educational and religious landscape is well-defined by the presence of Wisconsin State College and Holy Cross Seminary, alongside numerous rural schoolhouses like Sunny Mede Sch and Sand Lake Coulee Sch.

The eastern portion of the map showcases the agricultural and water management patterns of the era, centered around Neshonoc Lake and the village of West Salem. Transportation corridors are heavily influenced by the rail lines of the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific and the Chicago and North Western. In the south, the Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge begins to define the river bottomlands below Shelby and Calvert.