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Lucerne, Washington

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Stehekin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98816. It stands on Railroad Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lucerne quadrangle. It stands 1,109 feet above sea level.

Lucerne within Chelan County

On record in Lucerne

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Lucerne between 1992 and 2018, burning about 135,045 acres in total. 35 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
Natural35
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
4 September 1995Natural5.0 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestREX CREEK
23 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestMEADOW CREEK
21 September 2004Debris and open burning17 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestREX 2
7 August 1997Naturalunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestBEAR CREEK
6 August 2003Naturalunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestBEAR CREEK
5 August 2007Natural11,791 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestDOMKE
5 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestLUCERNE
4 August 1999Naturalunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestRATTLESNAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chelan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Lucerne: 19 prospects, 9 unknowns, 6 occurrences, 2 past producers. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Copper, Gold, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
BismarckZinc, Copper, ArsenicProspect
Blue JayCopper, Cobalt, Silver, GoldProspect
Getty Antimony PropertyAntimonyProspect
King SolomonCopper, Cobalt, Gold, Silver, ZincProspect
Little JapSilver, Copper, Antimony, GoldOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Pyrargyrite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
MoscowCopper, Arsenic, Silver, GoldProspect
Muriel AnnGraphite, TitaniumProspect
NebraskaCopper, Lead, Gold, SilverProspect
Orphan BoySilver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, ArsenicUnknown
Orphan Boy ProspectZinc, Silver, Lead, Antimony, Arsenic, GoldOccurrenceGalena, Pyrargyrite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Chelan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lucerne in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 debris flow. 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
December 2015Debris FlowLucerne-The Forest service reported water and rock/mud over 8301 road between Lucerne and Holden, WA.

Every storm recorded in Chelan 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
Domke Lake Resort1.3 miles18
Moore2.6 miles18
Stehekin8.1 miles14
Holden (historical)9.7 miles24
Trinity16.4 miles23
Telma27.5 miles17
Hollywood Beach27.6 miles13
Shrine Beach28.0 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 LucerneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22083066The 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 1522558. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.