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Lilly, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Byromville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31051. The Survey maps it on the Byromville quadrangle. 129 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 348 feet above sea level.

Lilly within Dooly County

On record in Lilly

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Lilly fell from 213 to 129 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010213
2020129-84 (-39%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

126 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Lilly between 1992 and 2019, burning about 786 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 14 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning89
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-DOOLY-004
23 September 2001Debris and open burning6.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-DOOLY-002
20 September 2010Arson/incendiarism93 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DOOLY-005
19 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1996Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1998Debris and open burning4.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dooly County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lilly in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLilly$100,000The Dooly County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down across the county. Some locations include Slosheye Trail at Highway 41, Old National Highway at Pennahatchee Road, and Parnham Road between Shiloh Road and Highway 257 where significant damage occurred to a house and a barn. No injuries were reported.
March 2009Tornado (EF0)Lilly$100,000The Dooly County Emergency Management Director confirmed that a brief EF0 tornado touched down along Pleasant Valley Road, between Steele Road and Truman Road, approximately four miles northwest of Vienna, and tracked northeast for about 1/4 mile or 500 yards. The maximum path width was determined to be 50 yards. At least 50 trees were uprooted or snapped in half along the path of the tornado. Several homes were damaged from the downed trees. Six homes sustained minor roof damage when shingles or guttering was blown off. Some metal carports were damaged and a few outbuildings were destroyed.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindLilly$40,000A trailer was blown off its foundation in Lilly. Numerous trees were knocked down from Byromville to Vienna and over to Pinehurst. A barn or outbuilding was destroyed about 15 miles northeast of Vienna near highway 230. Small hail was also reported.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindLilly$3,500The 911 center reported several large tree limbs blown down and a roof blown off of a home.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindLilly$3,000Several trees downed across weeks road near hwy 90.
May 2009HailLilly-The public observed penny-sized hail.
April 2005HailLilly-The Dooly County 911 Center reported nickel-sized hail.
January 2003HailLilly-The public reported dime size hail.

Every storm recorded in Dooly County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Byromville4.1 miles8
Findlay5.6 miles9
Vienna5.8 miles8
Bakerfield (historical)6.2 miles8
Dooling6.3 miles8
Drayton6.5 miles9
Pinehurst6.9 miles9
Richwood8.7 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on LillyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1340611The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332214. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.