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Lillis, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cleveland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66544. The Survey maps it on the Wheaton quadrangle.

Lillis within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lillis between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,905 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
3 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,800 acresKansas Forest ServiceLILLIS
4 March 2020Recreation and ceremony100 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
22 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNemaha County4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lillis in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 8 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 1997Thunderstorm WindLillis$150,000no account filed
June 1997HailLillis$40,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLillis$1,000no account filed
March 2024Thunderstorm WindLillis-Report of 61 mph winds.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindLillis-Mesonet station UP103 measured wind gust of 58 mph.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLillis-Several 2 to 4 inch diameter limbs down, with a few 12 foot long branches down.
August 2009HailLillis-This was a delayed report. Also, 2.57 inches of rain were reported.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindLillis-no account filed
August 2019HailLillis-no account filed
April 2012HailLillis-no account filed
March 2008HailLillis-no account filed
May 2003HailLillis-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindLillis-no account filed
June 1997Funnel CloudLillis-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindLillis-no account filed
May 1997HailLillis-no account filed
March 1993HailLillis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Nolan3.1 miles15
Sullivan5.0 miles16
Vliets7.5 miles16
Vermillion7.7 miles16
Frankfort9.2 miles14
Winifred14.7 miles14
Reedsville16.9 miles14
Axtell18.2 miles15

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 LillisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6548312The 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 473425. 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.