Lynchburg, Virginia

V・T・E Lynchburg, Virginia, United States

latitude: 37.4137, longitude: -79.1422

Browse map of Lynchburg 37°24′49.32″ N, 79°08′31.92″ W

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Lynchburg is a city in Virginia, United States at latitude 37°24′49.32″ North, longitude 79°08′31.92″ West.

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Projects

Address OSM notes

As of 2025-12-05 there are more than 250 OSM notes in the Lynchburg region. The oldest is over 3 years old, and all of the other notes are newer than 3 years.

Address fixme requests

Need to perform survey of fixme situation.

Maintain accurate POIs across city

This table is for tracking when we have surveyed street sections for POIs.

Street	Section	POI Survey Date
Riverwalk
Jefferson Street
Bluffwalk
Commerce Street
Main Street
Church Street	All	In Progress
Court Street	All	2025-04-28
Clay Street	All	2025-05-13
Madison Street
Harrison Street
Federal Street
Jackson Street
Polk Street
Monroe Street
Taylor Street
Wise Street
Floyd Street
Fillmore Street
Pierce Street	All	2025-05-21
Buchanan Street
Kemper Street
Bedford Avenue	Ri vermont Avenue (northwest) to Cork Street	2024-09-02
Boundary Avenue	All	2024-09-02

Bus System

The primary bus system in Lynchburg is managed and operated by the Greater Lynchburg Transit Company (GLTC). Additional bus service on Liberty University's campus is managed by Liberty and currently not mapped. Intercity bus routes are available through Greyhound and Virginia Breeze.

Ref	Route Master	Last Update	PTv2?	Variations?
1A	19847696 19847696	2025-11-16	✓	✓
1B	19896705 19896705	2025-11-28	✓	✓
2	19843539 19843539	2025-11-15	✓	✓
3A	19902197 19902197	2025-11-30	✓	✗ (missing morning inbound)
3B	19902299 19902299	2025-11-30	✓	✗ (missing morning inbound)
4	19824587 19824587	2025-11-11	✓	✓
5	19899449 19899449	2025-11-29	✓	No variations
8	19828927 19828927	2025-11-12	✓	✓
9	19899021 19899021	2025-11-29	✓	No variations
10	19846272 19846272	2025-11-16	✓	No variations
11	19836065 19836065	2025-11-13	✓	No variations
12	19898805 19898805	2025-11-29	✓	No variations
12X	19898806 19898806	2025-11-29	✓	No variations

Future improvements:

• survey every bus stop for position, sign, shelter, bench, bin, lit, wheelchair
• figure out how to tag the GLTC Flex zones
• group paired bus stops (stops that are across from another on the road) using stop area relations

City Government Offices

Constitutional officers

Code of Virginia name	Lynchburg City 2025 budget org chart name	OSM object	admin_level	Notes
"treasurer"	Treasurer	13370989817 13370989817	6
"sheriff"	Sheriff
"attorney for the Commonwealth"	Commonwealth's Attorney			Use government=prosecutor for this
"clerk, who shall be clerk of the court in the office of which deeds are recorded"	Clerk of the Circuit Court
"commissioner of revenue"	Commissioner of the Revenue	13370977657 13370977657	6

City council

Lynchburg City 2025 budget org chart name	OSM object	admin_level	Notes
City Council	13370977875 13370977875	6

Entities under city council [in one way or another]l

Lynchburg City 2025 budget org chart name	OSM object	admin_level	Notes
Business Development Centre	1082733685 1082733685		Seems weird to tag nonprofit as having an admin level
Schools	471642419 471642419	6
Greater Lynchburg Transit Co.			Kind of beyond Lynchburg insofar as they make agreements with adjacent counties
Clerk of Council
City Manager	13384398563 13384398563	6	Mapped as Lynchburg city council and manager's office on 3rd floor, but there's also a Lynchburg City Council node on 1st floor, so may need to improve name or add description to make less confusing.
City Attorney	13382256902 13382256902 Risk Management: 13370957585 13370957585	6

Departments under city manager

Lynchburg City 2025 budget org chart name	OSM object	admin_level	Notes
Water Resources	992536064 992536064	6
Fleet Services	608405121 608405121	6
Public Works	625202949 625202949 Engineering & Traffic Engineering: 13372777785 13372777785	6
City Assessor	13343169819 13343169819	6
Financial Services	13343169820 13343169820 Billings & Collections: 13370895729 13370895729 Management & Budget: 13382246739 13382246739 Procurement: 13382246740 13382246740	6
Information Technology	Don't seem to have one public office
Human Resources	13365823633 13365823633	6
Communications and Public Engagement	13370949046 13370949046 LTV Broadcast Services: 13370957584 13370957584 Citizens First Information Center: 13370973076 13370973076	6
Fire Department	6505233353 6505233353	6
Police Department
Airport	13370925943 13370925943	6
Economic Development and Tourism	13382207286 13382207286
Community Development	Permitting Center: 13370977876 13370977876 Inspections: 13372777786 13372777786 Neighborhood Services: 13372851312 13372851312 Planning: 13382116894 13382116894 Zoning: 13382116895 13382116895	6
Parks and Recreation	11636169655 11636169655	6
Libraries
Human Services	500265138 500265138	6

Higher education

Name	OSM object	amenity
Central Virginia Community College	117607560 117607560	school
Liberty University	7112206 7112206	university
Randolph College	82004537 82004537	university
University of Lynchburg	427914658 427914658	university
Virginia University of Lynchburg	11231395 11231395	university

Surveillance

As of 2025-12-02, 15 ALPRs within Lynchburg are mapped, which matches the Flock Safety transparency dashboard here: https://transparency.flocksafety.com/lynchburg-va-pd

A few Flock Safety gunshot detectors are mapped, but significant effort will be required to locate all of them. They do not appear in any transparency portals we are aware of.