Lucas, IA

Lucas is a city in Lucas County, Iowa, United States. The 2020 census counted 172 residents. The Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company established a station at Lucas in 1866, named after Lucas County and Robert Lucas. A plat for the town was filed on May 9, 1868 and the town was incorporated on March 18, 1887. The district operates Chariton High School. Lucas's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Iowa setting. The local scoop is how Lucas's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Lucas is located on the north bank of White Breast Creek, a tributary of the Des Moines River that flows east through the Southern Iowa drift plain. Lucas includes the Burlington. Lucas is home to second most productive coal mine in Iowa, Mine No.