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Lucca, North Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Raritan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58027. The Survey maps it on the Lucca quadrangle. It stands 1,214 feet above sea level.

Lucca within Barnes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lucca between 2001 and 2016, burning about 131 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
13 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDARYN CHRISTL CONTROLLED BURN #2
12 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDARYN CHRISTL CONTROLLED BURN #1
26 October 2001Debris and open burning129 acresValley City Wetland Management DistrictBLIKRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnes County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lucca in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 4 hail. 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
June 2012HailLucca-A few dime to quarter size hail fell with brief strong winds.
July 2010HailLucca-The hail destroyed a personal garden.
July 2019HailLucca-no account filed
September 2000HailLucca-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barnes 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
Kibby (historical)2.8 miles10
Nome5.2 miles10
Fingal5.3 miles10
Eastedge9.8 miles10
Cuba10.9 miles10
Kathryn13.3 miles10
Daily13.6 miles10
Koldok15.3 miles10

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 LuccaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6696395The 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 1030035. 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.