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Lynn, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Greenup census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41144. It stands on Sugarcamp Branch. The Survey maps it on the Load quadrangle.

Lynn within Greenup County

On record in Lynn

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Bennett's Mill Bridge, Spanning Tygart's Creek, East Tygart's Creek Road (CR 1215), Lynn, Greenup County, KY
Bennett's Mill Bridge, Spanning Tygart's Creek, East Tygart's Creek Road (CR 1215), Lynn, Greenup County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

161 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Lynn between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,671 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 46 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 burning60
Arson/incendiarism46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Recreation and ceremony14
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 August 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 June 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryALCORN ROA
22 June 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 May 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 May 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenup 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 Lynn: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Hannah Clay Co. MineClayPast Producer
Howland Tract MineClayPast Producer
Madden MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Greenup County

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lynn in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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
March 2021FloodLynn$10,000Tygarts Creek near Greenup rose above its 20 foot bankfull level on the afternoon of March 1st. The creek crested at 20.35 feet and returned to its banks late that same evening. Low areas along State Route 7 and County Route 2070 flooded during this time. The country store in Load and some homes near Tygarts Creek also flooded.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLynn$250One tree was blown down near the town of Lynn.
April 2025Flash FloodLynn-High water was observed on Sugar Camp Road near the town of Load.
December 2016Thunderstorm WindLynn-County Route 827 was blocked by a fallen tree.

Every storm recorded in Greenup 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
Beechy2.9 miles13
Load3.1 miles13
Truitt3.7 miles11
Lloyd4.7 miles18
Oliver Station5.0 miles18
Letitia5.0 miles14
York5.8 miles11
Greenup5.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 497369. 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.