Lynn is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Box Elder County,
Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northea ...
, United States.
It is located in the northwestern corner of the state, close to Utah's border with
Idaho
Idaho ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain states, Mountain West subregions of the Western United States. It borders Montana and Wyoming to the east, Nevada and Utah to the south, and Washington (state), ...
. Lynn lies in a valley between the
Goose Creek Mountains to its west, and a portion of the
Clear Creek Mountains and
Sawtooth National Forest
Sawtooth National Forest is a United States National Forest, National Forest that covers 2,110,408 acres (854,052 ha) in the U.S. states of Idaho (~96 percent) and Utah (~4 percent). Managed by the U.S. Forest Service in the United States Depart ...
to its east. The south fork of
Junction Creek passes through the town. No paved roads provide access to Lynn, though
Utah State Route 30 passes close to the community.
Lynn's name is an alteration of the last name of one of its founders, John Lind, a
Swedish immigrant who settled there in 1882.
[Huchel, Frederick M]
A History of Box Elder County
pp. 359-60 (1999)
In 1920, there was a Mormon church, grade school (the "Junction School"), and mail service in the Lynn area, all later abandoned. As of 1999, only two families lived all year round in Lynn, with some ranchers coming in the summers to attend to crops of hay and grain.
utah.gov, retrieved 7 February 2022 ("Steve Carlsen presented to the Board concerning the Old Junction School in Lynn.")
References
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Unincorporated communities in Box Elder County, Utah
Unincorporated communities in Utah