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Lily, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the North Corbin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40744. It stands on Robinson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lily quadrangle. It stands 1,119 feet above sea level.

Lily within Laurel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

59 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Lily between 1994 and 2019, burning about 425 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony10
Arson/incendiarism9

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
25 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2008Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresDaniel Boone National Forest3 SISTERS
19 August 2008Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 August 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestLAUREL BRIDGE
28 June 2012Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySCOTTS ROA
7 May 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestPICNIC
8 April 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWEST HWY 1223

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laurel County

Storms near this place

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lily in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
March 1997LightningLily1 hurt, $1,000no account filed
April 2011Thunderstorm WindLily$20,000Power lines and trees were blown down on Van Zant Road in Lily.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindLily$5,000Trees were blown down along Copley Rd and Copley off of Echo Valley.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLily$5,000Several trees were blown down 2 miles northeast of Lily.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindLily$5,000A tree was blown down on a mobile home during a severe thunderstorm wind gust.
February 2019FloodLily-Dispatch reported water over Robinson Creek Road south of Lily, causing the road to be impassable.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLily-Local Emergency Management reported multiple trees were blown down from Lily to Fariston.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindLily-Dispatch reported trees blown down on Kentucky Highway 552 in Lily.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLily-A large limb was blown down and onto a vehicle.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindLily-Multiple trees were blown down.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindLily-The roof of an auto repair center was damaged by thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2009Funnel CloudLily-A funnel cloud was sighted at East Laurel water treatment plant.
April 2006HailLily-Penny sized hail reported on Highway 1223 near Lily.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindLily-Trees were down.
February 2003Flash FloodLily-Three feet of water was over Highway 578.
April 2002HailLily-no account filed
April 2002HailLily-no account filed
July 1996HailLily-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Laurel 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
Hopewell2.4 miles17
Dorthae2.7 miles17
Pine Grove3.2 miles14
Fariston3.3 miles14
McHargue3.3 miles14
Boreing3.3 miles14
Camp Grounds3.6 miles17
North Corbin4.5 miles17

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 LilyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6548428The 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 513422. 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.