Lynch, Nebraska
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lynch Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68746. It stands on Whisky Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lynch quadrangle. 194 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,401 feet above sea level.
On record in Lynch
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Ponca Creek Bridgelisted 1992
Population over time
2 figuresLynch fell from 245 to 194 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 245 | |
| 2020 | 194 | -51 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1950 USGS Lynch quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Atkinson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
17 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Lynch between 2003 and 2020, burning about 3,952 acres in total. 1 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 | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,500 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | KAYLKOWSKI |
| 23 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 July 2012 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 17 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 150 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 June 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
29 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lynch in 29 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 21 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2019 | Flood | Lynch | $5,000,000 | Heavy rainfall led to high flows on Ponca Creek that produced extensive flooding and evacuations in Lynch. Homes and business along Ponca Creek sustained four feet or more of flood water damage, while several privately own bridges along Ponca Creek were destroyed. The flood waters eroded streets along and south of Highway 12. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynch | $60,000 | Winds in excess of 60 mph blew down several power poles. A mobile home was also blown over and a hog confinement shed was destroyed. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynch | $30,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 MPH, removed half of a roof off of a barn and destroyed a small shed at a farmstead north of Lynch. Large tree limb damage occurred at this location as well. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Lynch | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Lynch | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynch | $6,000 | Large tree branches were blown down by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Lynch | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Lynch | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Lynch | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Lynch | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynch | - | Thunderstorm wind gust of 58 MPH measured at this location. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynch | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH along with pea sized hail reported at this location. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynch | - | The public estimated winds to 60 mph. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynch | - | Strong thunderstorm outflow winds broke off numerous large tree limbs. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Lynch | - | no account filed |
| April 2018 | Hail | Lynch | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Lynch | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Lynch | - | no account filed |
| September 2008 | Hail | Lynch | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Lynch | - | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Hail | Lynch | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Lynch | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Lynch | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Lynch | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Lynch | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Lynch | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Lynch | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Lynch | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Lynch | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bristow | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Monowi | 7.2 miles | 11 | |
| Rosedale (historical) | 7.3 miles | 9 | |
| Gross | 9.8 miles | 9 | |
| Spencer | 12.8 miles | 10 | |
| Baker (historical) | 17.8 miles | 9 | |
| Anoka | 20.9 miles | 9 | |
| Butte | 21.1 miles | 9 |
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 Lynch | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2602213 | The 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 830974. 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.





