Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district
Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district covers most of the Driftless Area in southwestern and western Wisconsin. The district includes the cities of Eau Claire, La Crosse, and Stevens Point, as well as many Wisconsin-based exurbs of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. It borders the states of Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois. Republican Derrick Van Orden has represented the district since 2023.
Image: James Duane Doty daguerreotype by Mathew Brady
Image: Charles Billinghurst (Wisconsin Congressman)
Image: Charles H Larrabee (cropped)
Image: Andrew Scott Sloan (Wisconsin Congressman)
La Crosse is a city in and the county seat of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States. Positioned alongside the Mississippi River, La Crosse is the largest city on Wisconsin's western border. La Crosse's population was 52,680 as of the 2020 census. The city forms the core of the La Crosse–Onalaska metropolitan area, which includes all of La Crosse County and Houston County, Minnesota, with a population of 139,627.
Downtown La Crosse
Artist representation of La Crosse (1867).
Pearl Street in Downtown La Crosse in the summer of 1939.
Downtown Historic District
