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Lyons, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47443. The Survey maps it on the Lyons quadrangle. 625 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 531 feet above sea level.

Lyons within Greene County

Population over time

2 figures

Lyons fell from 742 to 625 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
2010742
2020625-117 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

In the county-history sources

578 words on this township

Early History of Greene County, Indiana ..., published 1875 names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Black creek heads Up in the Goose pond and marsh, and was named for the dark color of its clear water, being the color of dark glass. Buck creek was the place for all the old hunters to kill deer, but is not the Buck creek of Stockton township. Black marsh. Buck creek, Goose ond and Dog island are common ousehold words among old settlers. Morgan prairie was first called the Hockett prairie, and w'as owned by the Dixons. The old settlers raised good cotton crops for many years at the George Morgan big farm, west of Paw-paw bend on White river. KolD ing prairie and Half-moon (fFour= mile prairie are prairies in and about Switz and Lyons stations. Where Marco now stands was the old Indian camp ground, sixty years ago.

Passage source: Early History of Greene County, Indiana ..., published 1875.

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.

Fires near this place

20 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Lyons in 2008, burning about 14 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
25 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
21 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
12 August 2008Naturalunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 July 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 November 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 November 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lyons: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Water, Free, Coal. 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
Comet PitClay, CoalPast Producer
Upper Block Coal UnderclayAluminum, Iron, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer
Upper Block Coal UnderclayClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lyons in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
April 1994Tornado (F1)Lyons$50,000A small tornado briefly touched down and hit a farm. One outbuilding was destroyed, and three outbuildings were damaged. A nearby house also was damaged.
March 2024Flash FloodLyons$10,000Road flooding within the town of Lyons.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLyons$10,000Numerous trees were downed and windows were blown out of a house due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindLyons$5,000One or more trees and power lines were reported downed due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindLyons$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLyons$5,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLyons$250A four inch tree limb was reported down due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2012HailLyons$200Tree limbs were also reported down with a thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 50 mph.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindLyons-A large 100-year-old oak tree was blown down.
March 2025HailLyons-no account filed
April 2025HailLyons-no account filed
June 2010Funnel CloudLyons-no account filed
June 2009HailLyons-no account filed
June 2008HailLyons-no account filed
May 2004HailLyons-no account filed
June 2001HailLyons-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Bushrod2.0 miles14
Beehunter3.1 miles14
Sponsler3.3 miles19
Switz City3.5 miles17
Stalcup Corner3.5 miles14
Island City3.7 miles19
Ilene3.9 miles14
Marco4.9 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 LyonsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2121232The 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 438441. 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.