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Lynchburg, North Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Maple River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58059. The Survey maps it on the Chaffee quadrangle.

Lynchburg within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lynchburg between 2008 and 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning2

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
8 December 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service12/8/2020
17 November 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreDakota Prairie National GrasslandsPAINTNER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

20 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lynchburg in 20 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 tornado. 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLynchburg-Peak wind was measured an an NDAWN station at 3 meters.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLynchburg-A peak wind to 59 mph was measured at an NDAWN station near Enderlin.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindLynchburg-Peak wind was measured at an NDAWN station.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindLynchburg-Peak wind was measured at the mesonet site located 5N Leonard ND.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLynchburg-The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet sensor.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLynchburg-Several 4 to 8 inch diameter tree branches were blown down at a farmstead.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLynchburg-The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet sensor.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindLynchburg-Satellite imagery showed widespread wind and hail damage to cropland over southern Maple River Township.
June 2018HailLynchburg-Very strong winds and wind driven hail stripped corn and bean fields across central Maple River Township, near Lynchburg.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindLynchburg-Strong winds blew down several trees in shelterbelts.
June 2015HailLynchburg-Strong winds and large hail impacted southern Maple River Township.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindLynchburg-Trees were blown down onto a road.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLynchburg-The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet site.
August 2002Tornado (F0)Lynchburg-A brief touchdown broke off several large tree tops.
July 2018HailLynchburg-no account filed
June 2014HailLynchburg-no account filed
June 2013HailLynchburg-no account filed
August 2013HailLynchburg-no account filed
September 2002HailLynchburg-no account filed
July 2001HailLynchburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Chaffee4.8 miles11
Myra6.2 miles11
Everest6.3 miles11
Durbin6.5 miles11
Woods7.6 miles11
Leonard8.5 miles11
Casselton9.1 miles12
Embden9.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033775. 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.