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History · La Crosse Township

36% of La Crosse Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1970 on.

0on the National Register
36%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about La Crosse Township’s past

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A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of La Crosse Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s La Crosse Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.Old housesHalf of La Crosse Township’s homes were built before 1956.
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Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Prairie Junction
1881–1906
Miloma
1906–1930
18801950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Miloma
Gone or out of use
Miloma Post Officepost office

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

La Crosse Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of La Crosse Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

La Crosse Township is a township in Jackson County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 180 at the 2000 census. La Crosse Township was organized in 1872, and named after La Crosse, Wisconsin, the native home of a large share of the early settlers.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 156 to 147 (-6%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

La Crosse Township, 1881 to 1970

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1881Post officeThe Prairie Junction post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1906Post officeThe Prairie Junction post office closes
  5. 1906Post officeThe Miloma post office opens
  6. 1930Post officeThe Miloma post office closes
  7. 1970On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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No old photos in the archives yet

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On the map

La Crosse Township on the map, 1970 to 1985

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of La Crosse Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

La Crosse Township on the 1970 USGS mapLa Crosse Township on the 1985 USGS map1970Dundee sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of La Crosse Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Alba TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGraham Lakes TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWeimer TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSpringfield TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.