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Lynn

Ghost town · Alameda County, California

Concord quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1897, 1:62,500)
Concord quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1897, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Lynn is a ghost town in Alameda County, California, recorded as former settlement in California, United States. It is one of 13 former communities in Alameda County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 26th among the 58 California counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Lynn as a historical populated place: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 37.8011° N, 122.2331° W.

Key facts

Elevation175 ft
Nearest living townPiedmont, CA
Distance to it1.5 miles
Coordinates37.80110, -122.23310

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Lynn today, aerial view
Concord quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1897, 1:62,500)

Left: Concord quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1897, 1:62,500), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Lynn is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Piedmont, CA (population 11,012), about 1.5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 175 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Lynn?

Lynn is in Alameda County, California, at 37.8011, -122.2331.

How many ghost towns are in Alameda County?

Alameda County, California has 13 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

Sources and licences

Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-06.