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Lilley, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Lilley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49309. The Survey maps it on the Marlborough quadrangle.

Lilley within Newaygo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Lilley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,376 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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 burning55
Recreation and ceremony21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural3
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 August 1996Natural1.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestPOWER POLE
7 August 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestWOODBRIDGE
17 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestFRUIT TRUCK
7 July 2013Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestOSBOURNE
7 July 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestLOAT VAN
6 July 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestLINCOLN
5 July 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestROLLING ROCK FIRE
4 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCANDLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newaygo County

Storms near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lilley in 1 storm report in 2005: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2005Thunderstorm WindLilley$10,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newaygo 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
Bitely1.8 miles15
Woodland Park3.9 miles15
Walgamor Corners5.6 miles14
Brohman6.2 miles15
Troy9.1 miles11
Volney10.2 miles11
Woodville11.5 miles13
Ramona11.8 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1620514. 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.