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Lynchburg, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in West Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44427. The Survey maps it on the Kensington quadrangle.

Lynchburg within Columbiana County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lynchburg, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Lynchburg, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

In the county-history sources

42,133 words on this township

History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on West Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Lynchburg owes its existence to the construction of the Sandy and Beaver Canal. It is a namesake of the city of Lynchburg, Va. Eli Wickersham and Amos Preston were the original landholders, under whose direction the village was laid out. The first plat was made Dec. 4, 1834. An addition was made Dec. 26th of the same year by Amos Preston, William Hall, and Philip Wickersham. From the time of the abandonment of the canal Lynchburg dates its decline. On the 6th day of May, 1845, upon the petition of Owen Stackhouse, the Court of Common Pleas of Columbiana County ordered that forty-six lots, then within the village limits, be vacated. At present it has but little more to boast than a name. The village has a population of about 50.

Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on West Township.

Fires near this place

10 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Lynchburg between 2003 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
2 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1101
2 May 2015Arson/incendiarism35 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1441
4 April 2013Debris and open burning25 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2005Debris and open burning6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 November 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15359

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 264 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 264 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lynchburg between 1878 and 1967: 146 Plantae, 117 Animalia, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bezdek, F. H., Buker, W.E., Buker, W.E.; Henry, L.K. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Tringa semipalmata, not of this specimenTringa semipalmata semipalmata (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1878Collector(s): Leonard R. FreemanOhio Valley
A photograph of the species Viola L., not of this specimenViola L.1897Holzinger, J.M.Winona County.
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1901United States Bureau of FisheriesOhio, Cold Run, Columbiana County
A photograph of the species Leuciscus elongatus, not of this specimenLeuciscus elongatus Valenciennes, 18441901E. B. WilliamsonCold Run
A photograph of the species Cronartium ribicola, not of this specimenCronartium ribicola A.Dietr.1911Hicks H.Winona
A photograph of the species Pisidium punctiferum, not of this specimenPisidium punctiferum (Guppy, 1867)1915Sterki, VictorBrook E of Bayard
A photograph of the species Agallia quadripunctata, not of this specimenAgallia quadripunctata (Provancher, 1872)1923not recorded
Braconidae1923not recorded
Cynipidae1923W.V. Balduf
Ichneumonidae1923not recorded
Insecta1923not recorded
Schizocerella pilicornis (Holmgren)1923not recorded

All 264 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
East Rochester1.9 miles14
Kensington2.3 miles14
New Alexander3.3 miles14
Hanoverton3.4 miles14
Bayard3.5 miles18
Chambersburg3.6 miles18
Town And Country Park Estates3.9 miles14
Adair4.3 miles14

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 Q22133935The 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 1061452. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.