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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Lynx, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Brush Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45693. It stands on Burr Hill. The Survey maps it on the Lynx quadrangle. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

Lynx within Adams County

Then and now

1916 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lynx, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Lynx, surveyed 1916

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 nearby

9 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Lynx between 2003 and 2020, burning about 72 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
3 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources10106
26 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Recreation and ceremony33 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15455
23 March 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15033
22 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 February 2015Arson/incendiarism11 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources844
22 February 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15421

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 993 shown

Museums hold 993 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lynx between 1866 and 1975: 541 Animalia, 300 Fungi, 125 Plantae, 27 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. Cronquist, A. J. Sharp 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
Specimen of Puccinia lateripes Berk. & RavenelPuccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel1879A. B. SeymourAdams County
Specimen of Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn.Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn.1900W.A. KellermanMineral Springs
Specimen of Puccinia smilacis Schwein.Puccinia smilacis Schwein.1900W.A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Asplenium ruta-muraria, not of this specimenAsplenium ruta-muraria L.1866C. B. Dyer
A photograph of the species Pleopeltis michauxiana, not of this specimenPleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt1866C. B. Dyer
A photograph of the species Stigmella platani, not of this specimenStigmella platani Fuckel1892Kellerman W. A.Mineral Springs
A photograph of the species Phyllachora graminis, not of this specimenPhyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel1900Kern W. A.Mineral Springs
A photograph of the species Acroneuria frisoni, not of this specimenAcroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 19911925Clarence H. Kennedy
A photograph of the species Dermatocarpon miniatum, not of this specimenDermatocarpon miniatum (L.) W.Mann1925Braun, E. LucyTurkey Creek
Scapania undulata (L.) Dumort.1925E. L. BraunWest tributary of Beech Fork
Crotalus horridus horridus1926Watters, G. T. (George Thomas)Green Twp.: Long Lick Run, Adams Co., Ohio
Hedwigia albicans Lindb.1926Braun, E. LucyMineral Springs

All 993 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

6 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Lynx in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLynx$4,000Several trees were downed in the Lynx area.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLynx$3,000Trees downed.
February 2019FloodLynx-High water near Ohio Brush Creek resulted in a road closure of State Route 348 near Compton Hill Road.
May 2017Flash FloodLynx-High water was reported flowing across Hamilton, Rhodes and Tulip Roads.
May 2014HailLynx-no account filed
May 2014HailLynx-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Moore (historical)1.9 miles12
Tulip2.7 miles15
Cedar Mills3.6 miles12
Selig3.9 miles13
Gemmer4.2 miles15
Blue Creek4.4 miles12
Waggoner Ripple (historical)4.5 miles15
Squirrel Town5.5 miles15

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 LynxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6709552The 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 1042851. 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.

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.