Luzerne, Kentucky
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42345. The Survey maps it on the Greenville quadrangle. It stands 476 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1911 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:48000
- 1913 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000
- 1997 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
58 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Luzerne between 1997 and 2020, burning about 768 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 were 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 | 19 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 September 1999 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | 503 COMPLEX |
| 7 August 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 August 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2022Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Luzerne in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2025: 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luzerne | $5,000 | Several trees were downed across Muhlenberg County due to straight-line winds from a line of thunderstorms that progressed eastward through the county. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luzerne | $3,000 | A few trees were blown down. One tree was down across Highway 601 in the Luzerne area. A couple other trees were down in Greenville. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depoy | 1.6 miles | 16 | |
| Nebo | 1.8 miles | 16 | |
| Greenville | 2.1 miles | 16 | |
| New Cypress | 2.8 miles | 16 | |
| Powderly | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Sharon (historical) | 3.1 miles | 16 | |
| Hillside | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Vernal Grove (historical) | 4.0 miles | 13 |
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 Luzerne | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6706569 | 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 497357. 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.








