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Lucerne, Missouri

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Medicine Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64655. It stands on Elm Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lucerne quadrangle. 57 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 971 feet above sea level.

Lucerne within Putnam County

Population over time

2 figures

Lucerne fell from 85 to 57 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
201085
202057-28 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lucerne in 1997, burning about 60 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
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
24 March 1997Smoking60 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lucerne in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 9 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2003Tornado (F1)Lucerne$20,000Two residences reported damage in Putnam county. First home along EE Highway just south of US-136 lost a garage and had cars overturned. Second residence damaged along 220th Road at US-136 on the crest of a hill, lost a garage, with minor damage to the house and trees.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindLucerne$5,000Roof blown off small building.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindLucerne$5,000Law enforcement reported power poles snapped off on highway K.
March 2023HailLucerne-A supercell produced 1.5 hail northeast of Lucerne in western Putnam County.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindLucerne-Widespread 70 to 80 mph winds were reported across Putnam County. Near Lucerne a state trooper vehicle was pushed off the road.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindLucerne-A 60 mph wind was estimated by Fire Department in Lucerne.
June 1998HailLucerne-Dime-size hail was reported during a severe thunderstorm in Lucerne.
June 2014HailLucerne-no account filed
June 2012HailLucerne-no account filed
June 2012HailLucerne-no account filed
April 2006HailLucerne-no account filed
June 2004HailLucerne-no account filed
April 2001HailLucerne-no account filed
September 2000HailLucerne-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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
Terre Haute3.5 miles7
Galesburg3.9 miles7
Wyreka4.7 miles7
Powersville5.9 miles7
Midway6.9 miles7
Saint John7.6 miles10
Quinn7.6 miles7
West Liberty (historical)8.7 miles7

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 LucerneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q961598The 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 721660. 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.