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Lynn, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Lynn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35575. It stands on Little Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lynn quadrangle. 610 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 725 feet above sea level.

Lynn within Winston County

Population over time

2 figures

Lynn fell from 659 to 610 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
2010659
2020610-49 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

172 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Lynn between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,156 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 82 were 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
Arson/incendiarism82
Debris and open burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
8 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Natural1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winston County

Storms near this place

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lynn in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
November 2001Thunderstorm WindLynn$25,000One home had its roof blown off and numerous trees were knocked down in Lynn.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLynn$22,000Emergency Management Officials reported minor roof damage and trees and power lines blown down onCounty Road 25 between Lynn and Double Springs.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindLynn$20,000Thunderstorm wind removed part of the roof to the concession stand at the Winston County Drag Strip in southwest Winston County. Several trees were also downed in the area.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindLynn$10,000Trees and power lines were downed near the city of Lynn. Small hail of unknown size was also reported.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindLynn$10,000A mobile home office was flipped onto it's side by thunderstorm wind. A few trees and large limbs were downed in the area as well.
January 2009Flash FloodLynn$5,000Heavy rainfall washed out a bridge on CR-347, near the Lynn Community.
April 1997HailLynn$3,000Three-quarter inch hail was reported in Lynn, in the southwest part of the county.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindLynn$2,000Several trees were blown down.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindLynn$2,000Several trees and power lines were blown down in the Lynn community.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLynn$2,000A few trees were blown down on AL-5, near Lynn.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLynn-Numerous trees were downed south of Natural Bridge, mainly between Highway 13 and Highway 5, including around Lynn. This resulted in power outages in the Lynn area.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindLynn-Several trees and limbs were downed in the Lynn and Natural Bridge areas and along County Road 2 north of Double Springs.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindLynn-Several trees uprooted in the town of Lynn. Numerous trees uprooted throughout Winston County.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLynn-Several trees uprooted in the Lynn Community.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLynn-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed in the town of Lynn.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLynn-Trees uprooted and power lines downed on County Road 1 in the town of Lynn.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindLynn-Several trees uprooted and power lines down in the town of Lynn.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindLynn-Several trees were blown down just northeast of Lynn.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindLynn-Trees were reported down in the town of Lynn.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLynn-Several trees were blown down in the community of Lynn.
August 2002HailLynn-Dime size hail fell in the Lynn area.
March 2019HailLynn-no account filed
April 2009HailLynn-no account filed
April 2006HailLynn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winston 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
German Crossing0.9 miles11
Black Swamp (historical)1.0 miles11
Larissa (historical)2.5 miles11
High Point3.0 miles11
Farriss (historical)3.3 miles11
Kaeiser Bottoms (historical)4.0 miles11
Ashbank4.2 miles11
Natural Bridge4.2 miles11

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 LynnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67206The 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 160013. 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.