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Lynchburg, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Gasconade Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65543. The Survey maps it on the Manes quadrangle. It stands 1,381 feet above sea level.

Lynchburg within Laclede County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

62 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Lynchburg between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,071 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 32 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/incendiarism32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony1
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
5 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresMark Twain National ForestO HIGHWAY
31 August 2004Power generation/transmission/distribution25 acresMark Twain National ForestHOG
30 July 2012Natural5.2 acresMark Twain National ForestKFTO
29 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined22 acresMark Twain National ForestURBAN
5 May 2005Arson/incendiarism18 acresMark Twain National ForestMOORE
9 April 2011Debris and open burning71 acresMark Twain National ForestNORRIS CREEK
8 April 2015Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresMark Twain National ForestWEDGEWOOD
8 April 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestODER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laclede County

Storms near this place

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lynchburg in 9 storm reports between 2003 and 2019: 7 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2019HailLynchburg-Quarter size hail was reported by the public.
June 2018HailLynchburg-Quarter size hail was reported by the public.
October 2014HailLynchburg-Barnards Grove Winery reported hail up to the size of quarters.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindLynchburg-Winds were estimated by base personnel.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLynchburg-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed a few trees west of Lynchburg.
October 2014HailLynchburg-no account filed
April 2008HailLynchburg-no account filed
May 2006HailLynchburg-no account filed
April 2003HailLynchburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Laclede 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
Southard3.9 miles17
Clark Ford5.5 miles17
Nebo5.8 miles17
Competition7.2 miles17
Winnipeg7.7 miles17
Casey Ford7.8 miles17
Jacksonville8.2 miles17
Falcon8.9 miles17

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 LynchburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6708463The 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 750895. 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.