South
Kentucky
Harlan

Lynch

Lynch is a home rule-class city in , United States. In the 2020 census the city population was 658, down from 747 in 2010.
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  • Type: Village with 846 residents
  • Description: city in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Lynch, Kentucky” and “Lynch, KY”
  • Postal code: 40855

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kentucky Coal Museum.

Museum
The is a heritage center located in , . Its focus is the history of the coal industry in Eastern Kentucky, featuring specific exhibits on the company towns of Benham and neighboring Lynch. is situated 1½ miles west of Lynch.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Clutts and Partridge.

Hamlet
is a coal town and an unincorporated community in , , United States. The coal it produced was distributed through the railroad station that gave the community its original name. It has also been referred to as Pee Vee. is situated 2½ miles west of Lynch.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , , United States. It is located 8.6 miles southwest of Its was established in 1869 and moved to a different location in 1923. is situated 3 miles northeast of Lynch.

Town
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
is a home rule-class city in , , in the United States. The population according to the 2010 Census was 2,237, down from 2,611 at the 2000 census. is situated 4 miles west of Lynch.

Lynch

Latitude
36.9662° or 36° 57′ 58″ north
Longitude
-82.92238° or 82° 55′ 21″ west
Population
846
Elevation
1,716 feet (523 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US 8HC
Open location code
868VX38H+F2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153897973
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
4299557
Wiki­data ID
Q2012501
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Lynch” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لينش”
  • Basque: “Lynch”
  • Catalan: “Lynch”
  • Cebuano: “Lynch”
  • Chechen: “Линч”
  • Chinese: “Lynch”
  • Chinese: “林奇”
  • Danish: “Lynch”
  • Dutch: “Lynch”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لينش”
  • French: “Lynch”
  • German: “Lynch”
  • Gilaki: “لینچ (کنتاکي)”
  • Gilaki: “لینچ”
  • Haitian: “Lynch, Kentucky”
  • Haitian: “Lynch”
  • Hebrew: “לינץ‘”
  • Ido: “Lynch, Kentucky”
  • Ido: “Lynch”
  • Irish: “Lynch”
  • Italian: “Lynch”
  • Japanese: “リンチ (ケンタッキー州)”
  • Japanese: “リンチ”
  • Kazakh: “Линч”
  • Kirghiz: “Линч”
  • Ladin: “Lynch”
  • Malagasy: “Lynch, Kentucky”
  • Malagasy: “Lynch”
  • Mazanderani: “لینچ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lynch”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lynch”
  • Norwegian: “Lynch”
  • Persian: “لینچ، کنتاکی”
  • Persian: “لینچ”
  • Polish: “Lynch”
  • Portuguese: “Lynch”
  • Serbian: “Линч”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lynch, Kentucky”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lynch”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لینچ، کنتاکی”
  • Spanish: “Lynch (Kentucky)”
  • Spanish: “Lynch”
  • Swedish: “Lynch, Kentucky”
  • Swedish: “Lynch”
  • Tatar: “Линч”
  • Ukrainian: “Лінч”
  • Uzbek: “Lynch”
  • Volapük: “Lynch”
  • Welsh: “Lynch”

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Localities in the Area

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lynch”. Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.