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Lynn, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Morgan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72440. The Survey maps it on the Smithville quadrangle. 258 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 358 feet above sea level.

Lynn within Lawrence County

Population over time

3 figures

Lynn fell from 315 to 258 between 2000 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
2000315
2010288-27 (-9%)
2020258-30 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

34 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Lynn between 1997 and 2018, burning about 338 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
25 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1998Arson/incendiarism32 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 June 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 April 2005Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 April 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 April 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 April 2010Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Lynn: 8 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Zinc, Zinc, Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Fannie Richey PlaceClayUnknown
Hoppe MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
J.B.ButlerZincPast Producer
Poe MineZincPast Producer
Raney MineZincPast Producer
Bevens BloomeryIronPast Producer
Clifton E.Cook PropertyIronUnknown
James ProspectIronOccurrence
Pearl Pen PropertyIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lynn in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 11 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
March 2017Thunderstorm WindLynn$30,000Farm shop and lumber yard damaged. Trees uprooted.
April 2010Flash FloodLynn$25,000Heavy rain produced flash flooding all around Lawrence County. At least six inches of water covered roadways near College City. A culvert was washed out on Highway 25, north of Lynn. In addition, Highway 25 between Lynn and Lake Charles was completely underwater as well as Fowler Road in Lawrence County. Both roads were closed as a result.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindLynn$20,000A few homes were damaged. Some trees were knocked down.
May 2006HailLynn$5,000no account filed
March 2008HailLynn$2,000no account filed
February 2005HailLynn$1,100no account filed
March 2008HailLynn$1,000no account filed
March 2006HailLynn$150no account filed
April 2004HailLynn$50no account filed
June 2003HailLynn$50no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindLynn-Multiple trees were downed in the Lynn area.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindLynn-Several trees were blown down along Highway 25.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindLynn-Tree limbs were blown down just northeast of Lynn.
February 2013Thunderstorm WindLynn-Straight line winds blew a roof off a house in Lynn. Several trees were uprooted in the area as well.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindLynn-Straight line winds knocked a tree on to a car near Lynn and also knocked down some power lines.
March 2008Flash FloodLynn-Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Lynn. Several roads were flooded.
April 2020HailLynn-no account filed
May 2011HailLynn-no account filed
May 2011HailLynn-no account filed
June 1994HailLynn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Driftwood2.5 miles11
Eaton3.0 miles13
Jesup4.5 miles9
Strawberry4.6 miles11
Old Martin Mill Place5.5 miles10
Smithville5.7 miles9
Saffell6.4 miles11
Denton6.5 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 LynnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2582333The 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 51525. 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.