Lilly, Missouri

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.

• 1894 USGS Independence quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1936 USGS Kearney quadrangle1:48000
• 1942 USGS Kearney quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1945 USGS Kearney quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1971 USGS Arley quadrangle1:24000
• 1978 USGS Arley quadrangle1:24000
• 1983 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Arley quadrangle1:24000

The History of Clinton County, Missouri : Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Clinton County in the Late War, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Clinton County, Etc., Etc, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Lilly between 1992 and 2007, burning about 85 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Mecca
• Converse
• Guyton
• Haynesville
• Lake Arrowhead
• Trimble

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lilly: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lilly in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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.

Every storm recorded in Clinton County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 755481. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.