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.
Then and now
1916 to 1991The 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 sheets covering this place
12 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.
- 1916 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:62500
- 1918 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:62500
- 1918 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Lynx quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Lynx quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Lynx quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
9 since 2003The 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 10106 |
| 26 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 March 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 33 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15455 |
| 23 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15033 |
| 22 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 March 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 February 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 11 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 844 |
| 22 February 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15421 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 993 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Puccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel | 1879 | A. B. Seymour | Adams County |
![]() | Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn. | 1900 | W.A. Kellerman | Mineral Springs |
![]() | Puccinia smilacis Schwein. | 1900 | W.A. Kellerman | |
![]() | Asplenium ruta-muraria L. | 1866 | C. B. Dyer | |
![]() | Pleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt | 1866 | C. B. Dyer | |
![]() | Stigmella platani Fuckel | 1892 | Kellerman W. A. | Mineral Springs |
![]() | Phyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel | 1900 | Kern W. A. | Mineral Springs |
![]() | Acroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 1991 | 1925 | Clarence H. Kennedy | |
![]() | Dermatocarpon miniatum (L.) W.Mann | 1925 | Braun, E. Lucy | Turkey Creek |
| Scapania undulata (L.) Dumort. | 1925 | E. L. Braun | West tributary of Beech Fork | |
| Crotalus horridus horridus | 1926 | Watters, G. T. (George Thomas) | Green Twp.: Long Lick Run, Adams Co., Ohio | |
| Hedwigia albicans Lindb. | 1926 | Braun, E. Lucy | Mineral Springs |
All 993 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
6 since 1998The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynx | $4,000 | Several trees were downed in the Lynx area. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lynx | $3,000 | Trees downed. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Lynx | - | High water near Ohio Brush Creek resulted in a road closure of State Route 348 near Compton Hill Road. |
| May 2017 | Flash Flood | Lynx | - | High water was reported flowing across Hamilton, Rhodes and Tulip Roads. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Lynx | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Lynx | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moore (historical) | 1.9 miles | 12 | |
| Tulip | 2.7 miles | 15 | |
| Cedar Mills | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Selig | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Gemmer | 4.2 miles | 15 | |
| Blue Creek | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| Waggoner Ripple (historical) | 4.5 miles | 15 | |
| Squirrel Town | 5.5 miles | 15 |
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 Lynx | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6709552 | 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 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.




















