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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1889 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Blue Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,800 acres | Kansas Forest Service | LILLIS |
| 4 March 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 100 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 22 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Nemaha County | 4 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lillis | $150,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Lillis | $40,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lillis | $1,000 | no account filed |
| March 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lillis | - | Report of 61 mph winds. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lillis | - | Mesonet station UP103 measured wind gust of 58 mph. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lillis | - | Several 2 to 4 inch diameter limbs down, with a few 12 foot long branches down. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Lillis | - | This was a delayed report. Also, 2.57 inches of rain were reported. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lillis | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Lillis | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Lillis | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Lillis | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Lillis | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lillis | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Lillis | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lillis | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Lillis | - | no account filed |
| March 1993 | Hail | Lillis | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nolan | 3.1 miles | 15 | |
| Sullivan | 5.0 miles | 16 | |
| Vliets | 7.5 miles | 16 | |
| Vermillion | 7.7 miles | 16 | |
| Frankfort | 9.2 miles | 14 | |
| Winifred | 14.7 miles | 14 | |
| Reedsville | 16.9 miles | 14 | |
| Axtell | 18.2 miles | 15 |
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 Lillis | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6548312 | 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 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.






