Lucerne, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the East Haakon unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57567. The Survey maps it on the Lucerne quadrangle.

Lucerne within Haakon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Pierre quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Pierre quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Lucerne quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Philip quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Philip quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Lucerne between 1998 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 2 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
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
5 September 2020	Railroad operations and maintenance	25 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TORNADO RANCH
16 August 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Philip Volunteer Fire Department	GARTNER
30 July 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Bradley Volunteer Fire Department	DUSTIN VAN GILDER
13 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	M. NELSON
12 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rapid City Fire Department	98-2167
14 June 2006	Natural	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Elevenmile Corner

Every fire recorded in Haakon 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Elevenmile Corner	8.0 miles	6
Elbon	9.1 miles	6
Ottumwa	9.5 miles	6
Powell	13.6 miles	6
Billsburg	13.8 miles	6
West Fork	14.3 miles	5
Philip	15.6 miles	7
Milesville	17.1 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1266855. 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.