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Lake Lucerne, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Miami Gardens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33056. The Survey maps it on the North Miami quadrangle. 9,132 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Lake Lucerne within Miami-Dade County

Then and now

1947 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 47 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lake Lucerne, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Lake Lucerne, surveyed 1947

Compare 1947 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

Fires near this place

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Lake Lucerne between 1992 and 2018, burning about 269 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
17 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFIREWORKS (6)
6 May 1994Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 May 2003Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHE SILO FIRE
26 May 1993Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceENGINE 89 FIRE
11 May 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePINES CHURCH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lake Lucerne: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
A.J. Capeletti - No. 3 PitLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Broward Pit No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hollywood Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pit No. 6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Miami-Dade 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lakewood Estates0.8 miles15
Andover1.5 miles15
Miami Gardens1.6 miles15
Carol City1.7 miles15
Scott Lake1.7 miles15
Andover Golf Estates1.8 miles15
Norland1.9 miles15
Andover Lakes Estates2.1 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Lake LucerneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1018255The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 285257. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.