Lake Lillian, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lake Lillian City. It lies in ZIP code area 56253. The Survey maps it on the Lake Lillian quadrangle. 246 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,112 feet above sea level.
On record in Lake Lillian
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- John Bosch Farmsteadlisted 1987
Population over time
2 figuresLake Lillian grew from 238 to 246 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 | 238 | |
| 2020 | 246 | +8 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1953 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Olivia quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Lake Lillian quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Glencoe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lake Lillian between 2004 and 2019, burning about 75 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 May 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 35 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | ERICKSON WF |
| 28 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | LILLY |
Storms near this place
18 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Lillian in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 hail, 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Lillian | - | Trees down in Lake Lillian and Prinsburg. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Lillian | - | Downed tree reported in Big Kandiyohi Lake County Park East. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Lillian | - | Power lines were blown down. |
| September 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Lillian | - | Several trees and large branches were broken. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Lillian | - | Several trees and power lines downed. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Lillian | - | Scattered trees down. This was the beginning of a large swath of wind damage that extended into Meeker, Renville and McLeod Counties between 2025 and 2110 CST. Winds in this wide swath were from the west-northwest. |
| May 2000 | Tornado (F1) | Lake Lillian | - | Barn down, house pushed slightly off its foundation, numerous trees down, numerous home windows damaged. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Lillian | - | Two 70 foot pine trees toppled. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Lake Lillian | - | Hail swath continued from Lake Lillian to Renville county border. Significant crop damage. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Lake Lillian | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Lake Lillian | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Lake Lillian | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Lake Lillian | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Lake Lillian | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Lake Lillian | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Lake Lillian | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Lake Lillian | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Lake Lillian | - | 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.
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 Lake Lillian | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1857413 | 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 646640. 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.






