Lilly Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Lilly Historic District in Lilly, Georgia is a 60 acres (24 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. Roughly bounded by the CSX RR tracks, and Church, Montezuma, Third, and School Streets, it included 29 contributing buildings, two contributing structures, and a contributing site.”
Wikipedia article Lilly Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Dooly County · listed in 1998 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by CSX RR tracks, and Church, Montezuma, Third, and School Sts., Lilly, 31051
When was it listed? January 1998
Category. district
Census division. Byromville
National Register reference number. 97001558 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Lilly Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 787 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 burning	91
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-DOOLY-004
23 September 2001	Debris and open burning	6.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-DOOLY-002
20 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	93 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-DOOLY-005
19 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1996	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 1998	Debris and open burning	4.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Dooly County

Storms near this property

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lilly, the town this property stands in, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Lilly	$100,000	The 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 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Lilly	$100,000	The 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 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Lilly	$40,000	A 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 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Lilly	$3,500	The 911 center reported several large tree limbs blown down and a roof blown off of a home.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Lilly	$3,000	Several trees downed across weeks road near hwy 90.
May 2009	Hail	Lilly	-	The public observed penny-sized hail.
April 2005	Hail	Lilly	-	The Dooly County 911 Center reported nickel-sized hail.
January 2003	Hail	Lilly	-	The public reported dime size hail.

Every storm recorded in Dooly County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Dooly County Campground	3.5 miles	2024
William H. Byrom House	4.0 miles	1997
Leonard-Akin House	6.1 miles	1997
Dooly County Courthouse	6.2 miles	1980
Vienna Historic District	6.3 miles	2005
Stovall-George-Woodward House	6.4 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97001558 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dooly County	All 9 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.