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The St. Croix River at Interstate Park. St. Croix Falls is located at (45.411956, −92.638916 [6]According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.78 square miles (12.38 km 2), of which, 4.67 square miles (12.10 km 2) is land and 0.11 square miles (0.28 km 2) is water.
The Saint Croix Falls Dam is a concrete hybrid arch-gravity dam with an S-shaped spillway and an integral hydroelectric power station. The main arch is 675 feet (206 m) long and the power station is 291 feet (89 m), located on the east side of the river in Wisconsin.
St. Croix Falls is a town in Polk County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,119 at the 2000 census. The population was 1,119 at the 2000 census. The City of St. Croix Falls is located within the town.
They straddle the Dalles of the St. Croix River, a deep basalt gorge with glacial potholes and other rock formations. The Wisconsin park is 1,330 acres (538 ha) and the Minnesota park is 298 acres (121 ha). The towns of Taylors Falls, Minnesota and St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin are adjacent to the park.
State Trunk Highway 87 (often called Highway 87, STH-87 or WIS 87) is a state highway in Polk and Burnett counties in the US state of Wisconsin that runs north–south in the northwestern portion of the state from St. Croix Falls to Grantsburg. It was first designated as a state highway in 1924.
The free-flowing nature of the river is interrupted only by the hydroelectric Saint Croix Falls Dam operated by the Northern States Power Company at St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin. The lower 27 miles (43 km) below the dam, including both sides of the river along the Minnesota-Wisconsin border, were protected as part of the Lower St. Croix National ...
Assembly District 30: Shannon Zimmerman (R–River Falls) Most of the 10th Senate district falls within Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district, which is represented by U.S. Representative Derrick Van Orden. [4] The part of the district in St. Croix County falls within Wisconsin's 7th congressional district, represented by Tom Tiffany. [5]
St. Croix County of 1840 and today. St. Croix County was created on August 3, 1840, [5] by the legislature of the Wisconsin Territory. It was named after the river on its western border. [6] Sources vary on the name's origin. The St. Croix River may have been named after an explorer named St. Croix who drowned at the river's mouth in the late ...