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

Lyons, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Royalton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43533. The Survey maps it on the Lyons quadrangle. 602 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 768 feet above sea level.

Lyons within Fulton County

Population over time

2 figures

Lyons grew from 562 to 602 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. 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
2010562
2020602+40 (+7%)

Then and now

1911 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lyons, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of Lyons, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

6 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Lyons between 2007 and 2011, burning about 19 acres in total. None 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
29 April 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,086 shown

Museums hold 1,086 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lyons between 1894 and 1975: 1,073 Animalia, 9 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ALVIN PYLE, Adams, K.; Adams, S., CHAS M BUTLER 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 Capnodium Mont., 1849Capnodium Mont., 18491928W.M. BurkettMetamora
A photograph of the species Pipilo erythrophthalmus, not of this specimenPipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)1894Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo lineatus, not of this specimenButeo lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)1897Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Parus atricapillus, not of this specimenParus atricapillus Linnaeus, 17661899not recordedWauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Pucciniastrum americanum, not of this specimenPucciniastrum americanum (Farl.) Arthur1902W.A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Tamias striatus, not of this specimenTamias striatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1905not recordedWauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, not of this specimenTamiasciurus hudsonicus (Erxleben, 1777)1905not recordedWauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Storeria dekayi, not of this specimenStoreria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)1909CHAS M BUTLERMORENCI
A photograph of the species Pimephales promelas, not of this specimenPimephales promelas promelas Rafinesque, 18201929MB TrautmanBad Creek, in southeastern Pike Twnp, just north of village of Delta
A photograph of the species Pseudacris crucifer, not of this specimenPseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)1929Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Swan Cr. Twp., Fulton Co., Ohio
Pseudacris triseriata (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)1929Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Swan Cr. Twp., Fulton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana pipiens, not of this specimenRana pipiens Schreber, 17821929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Pike Twp.: Bad Creek, Fulton Co., Ohio

All 1,086 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

9 since 2006

The National Weather Service names Lyons in 9 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 9 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLyons$75,000County officials reported several trees down and 12 power poles being snapped off on County Road 10 between County Road U and Highway 120. Damage is estimated at $75,000 for the power poles.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLyons$20,000Numerous trees and power lines came down across the county, with the focus from Lyons to Metamora. Several of the power poles were snapped with road signs being blown over.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLyons$10,000Emergency management officials reported power lines and trees down in the Lyons area.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindLyons-Local fire officials reported wires down on US 20 in Royalton Township.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindLyons-Lyons-Royalton Fire reported power lines down.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindLyons-A trained spotter reported a tree was blown down onto a power line.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindLyons-A trained spotter measured a 65 mph wind gust.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindLyons-Tree Down
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLyons-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Seward1.8 miles15
Townline (historical)3.9 miles12
Denson4.2 miles15
Advance4.6 miles15
Oakshade4.8 miles15
Siney (historical)4.9 miles12
Winameg5.0 miles15
Whiteville5.0 miles12

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 LyonsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q770876The 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 1061456. 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.