Lily Lake, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Campton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60175. It stands on Lily Lake Run. The Survey maps it on the Elburn quadrangle. 1,032 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresLily Lake grew from 993 to 1,032 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 993 | |
| 2020 | 1,032 | +39 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1932 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Elburn quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Elburn quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
1,023 words on this townshipHistory of Kane County, Ill., published 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Campton Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Campton Township - 1,023 words.
Fires near this place
8 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Lily Lake between 2013 and 2014, burning about 11 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2013-852 |
| 18 June 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014-615 |
| 28 May 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014-536 |
| 7 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014-343 |
| 7 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014-345 |
| 6 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014-332 |
| 6 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2013-301 |
| 5 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2013-292 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lily Lake: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highland Avenue Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lily Lake in 11 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lily Lake | - | A wire was down at IL-47 and Burlington Rd north of Lily Lake. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lily Lake | - | A personal weather station recorded a 67 mph gust in Lily Lake. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lily Lake | - | Tree damage was reported along IL-47 just north of Lily Lake town center. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lily Lake | - | A tree was blown down at IL-47 and Beith Rd north of Elburn. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lily Lake | - | A tree fell onto power lines near IL-47 and IL-64 in Maple Park cutting power to at least one house. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lily Lake | - | Several tree limbs 3 to 5 inches in diameter were blown down. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lily Lake | - | A large tree limb was blown down. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lily Lake | - | A wind gust to 64 mph was measured north of Lily Lake. Multiple large tree limbs were blown down near Route 47 and Empire Road. Additional tree limbs were blown down nearby. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lily Lake | - | A 61 mph wind gust was reported through Cocorahs. 0.5 inch hail was also noted. |
| August 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Lily Lake | - | A tornado touched down in a subdivision about a half mile north of Route 64. At this location, several large hardwood tree limbs were snapped and twisted off. Damage here was rated EF0 with winds near 75 mph and a path width of 30 yards. The tornado quickly moved to the northeast where it continued to cause damage to multiple large trees in this subdivision. The tornado began to weaken and produced the last of its damage about a quarter mile north of Route 64 where several large tree limbs were snapped off. Damage was rated EF0 with winds near 70 mph and a path width of 30 yards. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lily Lake | - | Multiple ten inch diameter trees were blown down near Route 47 and Route 64. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Creek | 0.4 miles | 13 | |
| Oak Openings | 1.3 miles | 13 | |
| Mary Meadows | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| Foxfield | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| The Knolls | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| The Meadows of Virgil | 2.5 miles | 9 | |
| Brookside | 2.6 miles | 13 | |
| Empire Hills | 2.7 miles | 13 |
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 Lily Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2671864 | The 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 412088. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.






