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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1895 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Chaffee quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
2 since 2008Regional 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 burning | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 December 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 12/8/2020 |
| 17 November 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Dakota Prairie National Grasslands | PAINTNER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynchburg | - | Peak wind was measured an an NDAWN station at 3 meters. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynchburg | - | A peak wind to 59 mph was measured at an NDAWN station near Enderlin. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynchburg | - | Peak wind was measured at an NDAWN station. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynchburg | - | Peak wind was measured at the mesonet site located 5N Leonard ND. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynchburg | - | The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet sensor. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynchburg | - | Several 4 to 8 inch diameter tree branches were blown down at a farmstead. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynchburg | - | The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet sensor. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynchburg | - | Satellite imagery showed widespread wind and hail damage to cropland over southern Maple River Township. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Lynchburg | - | Very strong winds and wind driven hail stripped corn and bean fields across central Maple River Township, near Lynchburg. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynchburg | - | Strong winds blew down several trees in shelterbelts. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Lynchburg | - | Strong winds and large hail impacted southern Maple River Township. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynchburg | - | Trees were blown down onto a road. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynchburg | - | The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet site. |
| August 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Lynchburg | - | A brief touchdown broke off several large tree tops. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Lynchburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Lynchburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Lynchburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Lynchburg | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Lynchburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Lynchburg | - | 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.
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.






