Lucerne, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Griggs Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72346. It stands on Bills Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Round Pond quadrangle.

Lucerne within St. Francis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1940 USGS Whitmore quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Whitmore quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Whitmore quadrangle1:62500
1965 USGS Whitmore quadrangle1:62500
1984 USGS Round Pond quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Memphis West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Lucerne between 1992 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Arson/incendiarism	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 July 2004	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	ROUND POND
23 June 1992	Debris and open burning	24 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	ROUNDPOND1
11 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 October 2001	Natural	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 January 2009	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 January 2009	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 January 2009	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Francis County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Whitmore	0.5 miles	13
Blackfish	1.3 miles	13
Cicalla	1.6 miles	13
New Home	2.9 miles	13
Hicks Station	3.3 miles	13
Round Pond	3.3 miles	13
Heth	3.4 miles	12
Midway	4.1 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 83207. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.