Lucas, Kansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fairview Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67648. It stands on East Fork Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lucas quadrangle. 332 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,490 feet above sea level.
On record in 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 3 records
Garden of Edenlisted 1977- Deeble Rock Gardenlisted 2017
- Lucas School Gymnasiumlisted 2022
Population over time
2 figuresLucas fell from 393 to 332 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 393 | |
| 2020 | 332 | -61 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1896 USGS Osborne quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Lucas quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lucas between 2009 and 2010, burning about 3,550 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,000 acres | Kansas Counties | CRAIG NALER |
| 23 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 550 acres | Kansas Counties | LUCAS PARK FIRE |
Storms near this place
46 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lucas in 46 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 23 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucas | $100,000 | Home and building damage, large grain bins and an elevator leg destroyed as well as head stone damage and grave markers blown over. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Lucas | $50,000 | The emergency manager reported that virtually every car and roof sustained significant damage in Lucas. All of the skylights at the middle school were broken. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucas | $35,000 | Winds estimated around 70 mph produced damage in Lucas. Main street received damage to several buildings, including a bowed out wall, broken windows, roof damage, and some car window damage. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucas | $20,000 | Two 1,000 bushel grain bins destroyed with small sheds and stock tanks damaged. Widespread tree damage, including a large tree falling onto a mobile home as well as numerous power poles and power lines blown down. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucas | $10,000 | Power lines blown down. (Reported by KRSL Radio). |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucas | $7,000 | Considerable tree damage was reported across town with some damge to power lines. |
| May 1993 | Tornado (F0) | Lucas | $5,000 | A small tornado touched down over open country, did minor damage to one farmstead, and then dissipated. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucas | $500 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Lucas | - | Quarter to half dollar sized hail was reported with the time estimated from radar. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Lucas | - | A measured fifty mph wind accompanied the hail. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucas | - | Report via Facebook. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Lucas | - | Brief quarter sized hail but mainly dime sized. The hail storm lasted for about 3 minutes. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucas | - | The trained spotter estimated 60 to 70 mph winds that were breaking off branches of unknown diameters. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Lucas | - | Hail size ranged from quarter to half dollar sized. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucas | - | The high wind gust was also accompanied by torrential rainfall. |
| April 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucas | - | The gust was reported by a trained spotter. |
| April 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucas | - | A few outbuildings were damaged or destroyed along with some downed power lines. |
| April 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Lucas | - | Occurred over open country. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucas | - | Winds were estimated around 65 mph. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucas | - | Estimated gust reported by a trained spotter on Highway 18 near the county line. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucas | - | Law enforcement estimated 60 mph winds in and around the Lucas area. |
| February 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Lucas | - | Tornado touched down briefly in an open field near the intersection of West 196th Street and Mellard Road. No damage was reported. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucas | - | Tree damage. |
| August 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Lucas | - | Occurred in open country. |
| May 1995 | Tornado (F1) | Lucas | - | Tornado touched down 3 W Lucas and moved east along Highway 18 and then lifted as it left the town of Lucas. It destroyed a 100,000 buildings, grain bins partially removed the roof of a feed store and downed numerous trees and power lines. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Lucas | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Lucas | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Lucas | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Lucas | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Lucas | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Lucas | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Lucas | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Lucas | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Lucas | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Lucas | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Lucas | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Lucas | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucas | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucas | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Lucas | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucas | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Lucas | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Lucas | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Lucas | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Lucas | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Lucas | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Lucas | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2482296 | The 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 472535. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.




