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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.

Luzerne within Muhlenberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

58 since 1997

Regional 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/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony18
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism6
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2002Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 2010Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of Forestry503 COMPLEX
7 August 2002Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg County

Storms near this place

2 since 2022

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLuzerne$5,000Several trees were downed across Muhlenberg County due to straight-line winds from a line of thunderstorms that progressed eastward through the county.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLuzerne$3,000A few trees were blown down. One tree was down across Highway 601 in the Luzerne area. A couple other trees were down in Greenville.

Every storm recorded in Muhlenberg 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
Depoy1.6 miles16
Nebo1.8 miles16
Greenville2.1 miles16
New Cypress2.8 miles16
Powderly3.0 miles16
Sharon (historical)3.1 miles16
Hillside3.3 miles16
Vernal Grove (historical)4.0 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 LuzerneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6706569The 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.