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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.

Lynch within Boyd County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Lynch 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.

YearPeople Change
2010245
2020194-51 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

17 since 2003

Regional 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,500 acresNebraska Forest ServiceKAYLKOWSKI
23 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 July 2012Natural5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use150 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 April 2010Debris and open burning100 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boyd County

Storms near this place

29 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2019FloodLynch$5,000,000Heavy 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 1997Thunderstorm WindLynch$60,000Winds 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 2015Thunderstorm WindLynch$30,000Thunderstorm 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 2007HailLynch$10,000no account filed
July 2001HailLynch$10,000no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindLynch$6,000Large tree branches were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
July 2004HailLynch$5,000no account filed
June 2000HailLynch$5,000no account filed
May 1993HailLynch$5,000no account filed
August 1997HailLynch$3,000no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindLynch-Thunderstorm wind gust of 58 MPH measured at this location.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindLynch-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH along with pea sized hail reported at this location.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindLynch-The public estimated winds to 60 mph.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindLynch-Strong thunderstorm outflow winds broke off numerous large tree limbs.
July 2025HailLynch-no account filed
April 2018HailLynch-no account filed
May 2016HailLynch-no account filed
May 2015HailLynch-no account filed
September 2008HailLynch-no account filed
June 2008HailLynch-no account filed
October 2007HailLynch-no account filed
May 2007HailLynch-no account filed
August 2007HailLynch-no account filed
July 2004HailLynch-no account filed
June 2002HailLynch-no account filed
July 2002HailLynch-no account filed
September 1998HailLynch-no account filed
June 1998HailLynch-no account filed
August 1998HailLynch-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boyd 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
Bristow6.3 miles11
Monowi7.2 miles11
Rosedale (historical)7.3 miles9
Gross9.8 miles9
Spencer12.8 miles10
Baker (historical)17.8 miles9
Anoka20.9 miles9
Butte21.1 miles9

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 LynchAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2602213The 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.