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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Lynch. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Lynch to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Lynch, please Contact Us.
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Lynch (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Lynch. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Lynch is historic, it would have been located within present day Madison County.
To see how the shape of North Carolina's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Madison County: Buncombe, Haywood, Yancey, Cocke (TN), Greene (TN) & Unicoi (TN).
Below are the counties that are near Lynch. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Lynch:
- Madison County (The home county of Lynch)
- The following are listed by their distance from Lynch, with the one closest to Lynch listed first.
- Bluff
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Bluff is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff
- Spring Creek
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Spring Creek is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Creek
- Trust
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Trust is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trust
- Hot Springs
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Walnut
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Walnut is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut
- Stackhouse
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Stackhouse is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stackhouse
- Hurricane
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Hurricane is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurricane
- Marshall
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Rollins
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Rollins is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rollins
- Allenstand
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Allenstand is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allenstand
- Chapel Hill
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Chapel Hill is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapel Hill
- Cutshalltown
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Cutshalltown is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutshalltown
- White Rock
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- White Rock is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Rock
- Buncombe County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lynch, with the one closest to Lynch listed first.
- Sandymush
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Sandymush is located in Buncombe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandymush
- Sandymush has also been known as:
- Sandy Mush
- Leicester
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Alexander
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Newfound
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Newfound is located in Buncombe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newfound
- Flat Creek
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Flat Creek is located in Buncombe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flat Creek
- Stoney Knob
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Stoney Knob is located in Buncombe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoney Knob
- Weaverville
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Woodfin
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Democrat
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Democrat is located in Buncombe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Democrat
- Acton
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Acton is located in Buncombe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acton
- Candler
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Emma
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Emma is located in Buncombe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emma
- Enka
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Haywood County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lynch, with the one closest to Lynch listed first.
- Teague ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Teague is located in Haywood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teague
- Mount Sterling
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Mount Sterling is located in Haywood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Sterling
- Canton
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Clyde
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- West Canton
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- West Canton is located in Haywood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Canton
- Lake Junaluska
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Morning Star
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Morning Star is located in Haywood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morning Star
- Bethel
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Bethel is located in Haywood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethel
- Sonoma ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Sonoma is located in Haywood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sonoma
- Waynesville
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Maggie Valley
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Hazelwood
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Hazelwood is located in Haywood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazelwood
- Lavinia ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Lavinia is located in Haywood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lavinia
- Jackson County
- Balsam
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Yancey County
- Higgins
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Higgins is located in Yancey County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Higgins
- Cocke County (TN)
- The following are listed by their distance from Lynch, with the one closest to Lynch listed first.
- Nough
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Nough is located in Cocke County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nough
- Wolf Creek
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Wolf Creek is located in Cocke County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolf Creek
- Tom Town
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Tom Town is located in Cocke County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tom Town
- Del Rio
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Naillon ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Naillon is located in Cocke County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Naillon
- West Myers
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- West Myers is located in Cocke County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Myers
- Estimated population in 2014: 2,282 people
- Hartford
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Bridgeport
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Bridgeport is located in Cocke County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeport
- Parrottsville
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Edwina
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Edwina is located in Cocke County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwina
- Wilton Springs
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Wilton Springs is located in Cocke County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilton Springs
- Jimtown
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Jimtown is located in Cocke County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jimtown
- Cosby
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Greene County (TN)
- The following are listed by their distance from Lynch, with the one closest to Lynch listed first.
- Cedar Creek
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Cedar Creek is located in Greene County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Creek
- Sirenburg ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Sirenburg is located in Greene County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sirenburg
- Bright Hope
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Bright Hope is located in Greene County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bright Hope
- Camp Creek
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Camp Creek is located in Greene County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Creek
- Little Chucky ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Little Chucky is located in Greene County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Chucky
- Water Fork Mill
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Water Fork Mill is located in Greene County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Water Fork Mill
- Estimated population in 2014: 445 people
- Greeneville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Henshaw ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Henshaw is located in Greene County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henshaw
- Estimated population in 2014: 470 people
- Warrensburg
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Warrensburg is located in Greene County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warrensburg
- Forest Hills
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Forest Hills is located in Greene County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Hills
- Estimated population in 2014: 5,027 people
- Midway
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Pleasant View
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Pleasant View is located in Greene County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant View
- Estimated population in 2014: 4,251 people
- Tusculum
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Tusculum is located in Greene County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tusculum
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,669 people
- Jefferson County (TN)
- The following are listed by their distance from Lynch, with the one closest to Lynch listed first.
- Baneberry
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Leadvale
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Leadvale is located in Jefferson County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leadvale
- White Pine
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Sevier County (TN)
- The following are listed by their distance from Lynch, with the one closest to Lynch listed first.
- Pittman Center
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Pittman Center is located in Sevier County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittman Center
- Population from the 2020 Census: 545 people
- East Fork
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- East Fork is located in Sevier County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Fork
- Unicoi County (TN)
- The following are listed by their distance from Lynch, with the one closest to Lynch listed first.
- Flag Pond
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Flag Pond is located in Unicoi County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flag Pond
- Loganton ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Loganton is located in Unicoi County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loganton
- Clear Branch
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Clear Branch is located in Unicoi County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clear Branch
- Former name for Clear Branch:
- Kittyton
- Ernestville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Ernestville is located in Unicoi County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ernestville
- Estimated population in 2014: 1,311 people
- Washington County (TN)
- Nolichucky ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Nolichucky is located in Washington County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nolichucky
- Population from the 2010 Census: 5,861 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Lynch, see our County-by-County Page for Lynch.
Cemeteries Near Lynch ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lynch.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Lynch - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Lynch covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Lynch, with the one closest to Lynch listed first.
- Reynolds Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Roaring Fork Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roaring Fork Cemetery
- The Roaring Fork Cemetery has also been known as:
- Ebbs Cemetery
- Waddell Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Gap Of The Mountain Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Brown Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Zion Baptist Church Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Old Bluff Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Bluff Cemetery
- The Old Bluff Cemetery has also been known as:
- Bluff Cemetery
- Poplar Gap Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Davis Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Huff Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Presnell - Mooneyham Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Keenerville Christian Church Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (591 more) ...
- Big Pine Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Roberts Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Reagan Worley Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.
Lynch itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Lynch, with the one closest to Lynch listed first.
- Spring Creek
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Spring Creek is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Creek
- Bluff
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Bluff is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff
- Big Pine
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Big Pine is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Pine
- Hot Springs
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Jonestown ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jonestown is located in Cocke County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jonestown
- Wolf Creek
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Wolf Creek is located in Cocke County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolf Creek
- Barnard
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Barnard is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnard
- Sandy Bottom
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Sandy Bottom is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Bottom
- Paint Rock
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Paint Rock is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paint Rock
- Nough
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Nough is located in Cocke County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nough
- Stackhouse
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Stackhouse is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stackhouse
- Fines Creek
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Fines Creek is located in Haywood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fines Creek
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Palm ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Palm is located in Haywood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palm
- Sandymush
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Sandymush is located in Buncombe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandymush
- Sandymush has also been known as:
- Sandy Mush
- Canto
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Canto is located in Buncombe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canto
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Lynch. See our List of 1890's Communities around Lynch.
Newspapers Published in Lynch ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 29 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lynch.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lynch, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lynch.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Lynch:
- Websites specific to North Carolina
- Pages specific to Madison County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Buncombe County
- Haywood County
- Jackson County
- Yancey County
- Cocke County
- Greene County
- Jefferson County
- Sevier County
- Unicoi County
- Washington County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for North Carolina
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Lynch, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Lynch) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |