BlockLucerne, Kansas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Adell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67740. The Survey maps it on the Lucerne quadrangle. It stands 2,648 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Lucerne quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Oakley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lucerne in 2018, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 May 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 180026 |
Storms near this place
20 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lucerne in 20 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 12 hail, 5 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF1) | Lucerne | $100,000 | A tornado formed in northeast Sheridan county and moved very slowly north. One farmhouse had most of its windows blown in and many tall cedar trees uprooted. Several doors were damaged and had to be replaced. Part of the roof was off a barn and farm implements were overturned. A center pivot and an anhydrous ammonia tank were also overturned just south of the farmhouse. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Lucerne | $7,500 | Resident reported siding damage to home, cars dented, glass picnic table broken and their windshield broken. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucerne | - | Weather Underground site KKSHOXIE18 reported gusts of 59 to 74 mph over a duration of four minutes. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Lucerne | - | Facebook report of nickel to quarter size hail 13 miles northeast of Hoxie. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucerne | - | Personal weather station kkshoxie18. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Lucerne | - | Report received of quarter inch hail covering the ground at the location. |
| March 2018 | Hail | Lucerne | - | Reported near the Norton/Decatur line. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Lucerne | - | Hail ranged from nickel to quarter size. Rainfall total of 1.10 inches. Time of hail estimated from Doppler radar. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucerne | - | Public reported wind gusts up to 60 MPH. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Lucerne | - | Law enforcement relayed a spotter report of two distinct tornadoes about 1/4 to 1/2 mile apart moving slowly northwest. The tornadoes did not merge nor appear to rotate around one another and were mostly right along or just south of the Sheridan-Decatur county line.. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Lucerne | - | Law enforcement relayed a spotter report of two distinct tornadoes about 1/4 to 1/2 mile apart moving slowly northwest. The tornadoes did not merge nor appear to rotate around one another and were mostly right along or just south of the Sheridan-Decatur county line.. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Lucerne | - | A distinct satellite tornado formed and after several minutes merged with the first tornado which had formed two minutes earlier. A series of pictures showed two tornadoes about a quarter mile apart with one rotating around the other and finally the two merged over open fields. Thus this satellite tornado produced no damage while the first tornado went on to damage a farmhouse. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Lucerne | - | Heavy rainfall and wind gusts of 30 to 40 mph were also reported. |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Lucerne | - | The public reported a brief tornado south of Kansas Highway 9 approximately 8 miles WNW from Lucerne or 7 miles SE of Dresden. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Lucerne | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Lucerne | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Lucerne | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Lucerne | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Lucerne | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Lucerne | - | 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 Lucerne | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q48837929 | 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 484550. 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.