BlockLucan, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Granite Rock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56255. The Survey maps it on the Lucan quadrangle. 214 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,089 feet above sea level.
On record in Lucan
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 1 record
Chicago and North Western Railroad Depotlisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresLucan grew from 191 to 214 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 | 191 | |
| 2020 | 214 | +23 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Lucan quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Tracy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
433 words on this townshipThe History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Granite Rock Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Granite Rock township is located in the west central part of Redwood county, and embraces Congressional township 111-38. It is bounded on the north by Vesta, on the east by Vail, on the south by Johnsonville, and on the west by Westline. A branch of the Redwood river crosses it on the northern side, flowing in a northeasterly direction. The Evan-Marshall branch of the Chicago and Northwestern passes due east and west through its, center. The surface is generally rolling. Its only village is Lucan. The trading centers are Lucan, Vesta, Wabasso, and Redwood Falls. There are five school houses. The predominating nationality is German.
Passage source: The History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Storms near this place
10 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lucan in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Lucan | $250,000 | Several witnesses and storm spotters observed a tornado touchdown south of Lucan, Minnesota. The tornado tracked to the southeast and damaged a farmhouse, which included several outbuildings, a greenhouse, pole barn, and shed. Based on damage the tornado was rated an EF0 with top winds of 80 mph. The tornado lifted one quarter of a mile southeast of the farmhouse where debris was thrown one half mile. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucan | $40,000 | Part of roof from shed ripped off. Several trees down, including one on shed. Grain bin tipped over. |
| July 2018 | Heavy Rain | Lucan | - | A measured rainfall report of 4.55 inches fell west of Lucan in 24 hours. |
| June 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Lucan | - | Law enforcement reported seeing a funnel cloud reach half way to the ground, then lift back into the clouds. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucan | - | A barbeque grill was blown 35 feet across gravel and crashed into the side of a garage. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Lucan | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Lucan | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Lucan | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Lucan | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Lucan | - | 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 Lucan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2230291 | 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 647278. 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.
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.