Lynn, Indiana
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47355. It stands on Copy Run. The Survey maps it on the Lynn quadrangle. 954 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,181 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLynn fell from 1,097 to 954 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,097 | |
| 2020 | 954 | -143 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1916 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:48000
- 1916 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1918 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
In the county-history sources
32,049 words on this townshipHistory of Randolph County, Indiana with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The mills were mostly in other portions of the county, and West River was not miucli of a. mill stream near its upper course, and these settlecs went chiefly down into Wayne County to find milling faqilities already in o[>era'ion. William Smith is said lo have started a mill of some kind, but whether by horse or water power wo cannot state. He was a blacksmith as well as a farmer, and one of the earliest things he did was to put up a shop in, which to work at his trade. Thase smith shops were scattered over the county at variovis points, though we can name but few. Richard Robbins had one farther north in Stony Creek; James Frazier and his son Francis after him worked as a smith east of Lynn. The Fraziers were of a superior sort, being bell-makors as well as smiths. Fr.incis Frazier, still living, boasts highly of the bells and the razors he can make. He declares that he has heard ono of his cow bells seven miles, and that he can oven now hammer out a razor that will beat the "boughten razors all hollow," At any rate, the old pioneer is a hale, cheerful octogoaarian, and has been famous as Francis Frazier, the boll-maker, for half a century.
Passage source: History of Randolph County, Indiana with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1882.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Washington Township - it names this place 16 more 16 times.
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lynn: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hutchens Gravel Company | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Hutchens Gravel Inc- Lynn Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Lynn Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
20 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lynn in 20 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 9 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Lynn | $50,000 | Horses and cars were trapped in flood waters near Lynn. At least two blocks of Lynn were underwater. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynn | $7,000 | Trees, near this location, were snapped or uprooted due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. The Lynn Police/Fire Department reported a tree down on a house. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynn | $5,000 | Trees were reported down due to thunderstorm wind gusts in the town of Lynn. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynn | $2,000 | A tree was uprooted by thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynn | $2,000 | A few home shingles were damaged in the town of Lynn. |
| September 2018 | Flash Flood | Lynn | $1,000 | Water was reported to be over the road in spots in Lynn due to heavy rainfall. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynn | $500 | Street sign downed by winds. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Lynn | $500 | A few roads were reported closed due to water over the road. |
| May 2010 | Flood | Lynn | $500 | Minor flooding was reported in the town of Lynn. |
| January 2023 | Hail | Lynn | - | Hail fell for about 1.5 minutes. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Lynn | - | This report came from an off-duty police officer and was relayed through the Emergency Manager. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Lynn | - | This report was relayed via amateur radio from a social media webpage. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Lynn | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Lynn | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Lynn | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Lynn | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Lynn | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Lynn | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynn | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Lynn | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snow Hill | 3.2 miles | 19 | |
| Bloomingport | 3.3 miles | 19 | |
| Crete | 4.2 miles | 18 | |
| Rural | 4.2 miles | 19 | |
| Arba | 4.7 miles | 18 | |
| Spartanburg | 4.8 miles | 18 | |
| Carlos | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Bartonia | 6.5 miles | 18 |
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 Lynn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3293469 | The 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 438430. 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.
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.







