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Saint Lucas, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Auburn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52171. The Survey maps it on the Saint Lucas quadrangle. 167 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,056 feet above sea level.

Saint Lucas within Fayette County

On record in Saint Lucas

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Lucas grew from 143 to 167 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010143
2020167+24 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

6 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Saint Lucas between 2012 and 2020, burning about 82 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 burning6

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
3 June 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2020Debris and open burning40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2020Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2019Debris and open burning25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Saint Lucas: 11 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Schmitz QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Schwemman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
St Lucas QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Steinlage QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fayette 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
Douglass5.2 miles11
Eldorado5.3 miles11
Waucoma5.3 miles7
Alpha7.7 miles9
Hawkeye8.9 miles12
West Union9.8 miles12
Richfield10.5 miles9
Dover Mills (historical)11.3 miles11

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 Saint LucasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1925339The 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 461143. 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.