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Mount Lucia, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sioux City City. It lies in ZIP code area 51103. It stands on Mount Lucia. The Survey maps it on the Sioux City North quadrangle.

Mount Lucia within Woodbury County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Mount Lucia between 1998 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Fireworks3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 July 1999Fireworksunder an acreNorth Sioux Volunteer Fire DepartmentDAKOTA DUNES
5 July 2002Fireworksunder an acreNorth Sioux Volunteer Fire DepartmentI-29 MM 4
4 July 2005Fireworksunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
26 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression101 COTTS
13 May 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHOFFMAN RD
12 May 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDesmet Volunteer Fire Department#643
7 April 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCOUNTRY ACRES
16 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression1001 RIVER DRIVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Woodbury County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mount Lucia: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
UnknownClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Woodbury 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
Riverside1.8 miles12
Sioux City4.4 miles13
Springdale5.2 miles12
Leeds5.6 miles12
Holiday Village5.9 miles12
Evergreen Village6.7 miles12
Regency of Sioux City6.9 miles12
Morningside7.5 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122549560The 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 464662. 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.