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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.

Lucas within Russell County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Lucas 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.

YearPeople Change
2010393
2020332-61 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

2 since 2009

Regional 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/undetermined2

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
4 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3,000 acresKansas CountiesCRAIG NALER
23 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined550 acresKansas CountiesLUCAS PARK FIRE

Every fire recorded in Russell County

Storms near this place

46 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1999Thunderstorm WindLucas$100,000Home and building damage, large grain bins and an elevator leg destroyed as well as head stone damage and grave markers blown over.
April 2015HailLucas$50,000The 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 2011Thunderstorm WindLucas$35,000Winds 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 1998Thunderstorm WindLucas$20,000Two 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 2001Thunderstorm WindLucas$10,000Power lines blown down. (Reported by KRSL Radio).
August 2009Thunderstorm WindLucas$7,000Considerable tree damage was reported across town with some damge to power lines.
May 1993Tornado (F0)Lucas$5,000A small tornado touched down over open country, did minor damage to one farmstead, and then dissipated.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindLucas$500no account filed
June 2024HailLucas-Quarter to half dollar sized hail was reported with the time estimated from radar.
August 2021HailLucas-A measured fifty mph wind accompanied the hail.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindLucas-Report via Facebook.
June 2020HailLucas-Brief quarter sized hail but mainly dime sized. The hail storm lasted for about 3 minutes.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLucas-The trained spotter estimated 60 to 70 mph winds that were breaking off branches of unknown diameters.
April 2017HailLucas-Hail size ranged from quarter to half dollar sized.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindLucas-The high wind gust was also accompanied by torrential rainfall.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindLucas-The gust was reported by a trained spotter.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindLucas-A few outbuildings were damaged or destroyed along with some downed power lines.
April 2012Tornado (EF0)Lucas-Occurred over open country.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindLucas-Winds were estimated around 65 mph.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindLucas-Estimated gust reported by a trained spotter on Highway 18 near the county line.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindLucas-Law enforcement estimated 60 mph winds in and around the Lucas area.
February 2007Tornado (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 2002Thunderstorm WindLucas-Tree damage.
August 2001Tornado (F0)Lucas-Occurred in open country.
May 1995Tornado (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 2026HailLucas-no account filed
June 2024HailLucas-no account filed
May 2019HailLucas-no account filed
May 2019HailLucas-no account filed
April 2017HailLucas-no account filed
May 2016HailLucas-no account filed
May 2016HailLucas-no account filed
August 2015HailLucas-no account filed
April 2015HailLucas-no account filed
June 2008HailLucas-no account filed
May 2006HailLucas-no account filed
May 2006HailLucas-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindLucas-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLucas-no account filed
June 2002HailLucas-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindLucas-no account filed
June 1999HailLucas-no account filed
June 1998HailLucas-no account filed
May 1998HailLucas-no account filed
July 1996HailLucas-no account filed
May 1995HailLucas-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Russell 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
Luray8.9 miles13
Waldo14.5 miles13
Dorrance14.7 miles14
Bunker Hill15.3 miles13
Homer18.9 miles14
Russell20.4 miles13
Paradise20.6 miles13
Balta23.3 miles13

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 LucasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2482296The 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.