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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Lilly Chapel, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fairfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43162. The Survey maps it on the West Jefferson quadrangle. It stands 3,196 feet above sea level.

Lilly Chapel within Madison County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lilly Chapel, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Lilly Chapel, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

In the 1883 county history

5,606 words on this township

The county history of 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Fairfield Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Fairfield Township - 5,606 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 557 shown

Museums hold 557 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lilly Chapel between 1885 and 1975: 464 Animalia, 59 Fungi, 32 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, B. Fink, Betz, E. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Physcia syncolla Tuck. ex Nyl.Physcia syncolla Tuck. ex Nyl.1893Ernst E. Bogue
Specimen of Caloplaca sideritis (Tuck.) Zahlb.Caloplaca sideritis (Tuck.) Zahlb.1894E. BogueGeorgesville.
Specimen of Anaptychia comosa (Eschw.) A.Massal.Anaptychia comosa (Eschw.) A.Massal.1895Ernst E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Chiloscyphus ascendens, not of this specimenChiloscyphus ascendens (Wilson & Hook.) Sull.1885W. C. WernerGeorgesville
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1889Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)London, Madison, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Frullania eboracensis, not of this specimenFrullania eboracensis Lehm.1890W. C. WernerGeorgesville
A photograph of the species Lophocolea heterophylla, not of this specimenLophocolea heterophylla (Schrad.) Dumort.1890W. C. WernerGeorgesville
A photograph of the species Tortella humilis, not of this specimenTortella humilis (Hedw.) Jenn.1890W. C. WernerGeorgesville
A photograph of the species Anomodon minor, not of this specimenAnomodon minor (Hedw.) Lindb.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Hedwigia ciliata, not of this specimenHedwigia ciliata (Hedw.) P.Beauv.1891W. C. WernerGeorgesville
Leskea gracilescens Hedw.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Andropogon gerardi, not of this specimenAndropogon gerardi Vitman1892Werner, W.C.Georgeville

All 557 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lilly Chapel: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Dolomite, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Madison Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Madison Limestone QuarryDolomite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms nearby

5 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Lilly Chapel in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2020Tornado (EF0)Lilly Chapel$10,000The tornado is believed to have first touched down in a field south of London-Lockbourne Road. Video showed the tornado crossing London-Lockbourne Road and then moving northeast into the Lilly Chapel area. The tornado produced damage along Lilly Chapel-Georgesville Road. One barn was destroyed and metal from the roof was thrown across the road into neighboring yards. Tree damage was also observed along Lilly Chapel-Georgesville Road. The tornado then quickly lifted in a field as no damage was observed along Gerich Lilly Road. Based on the damage, the maximum winds were estimated to be 85 MPH.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindLilly Chapel$5,000Trees were downed.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindLilly Chapel$3,000Several trees were downed on Wilson Road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLilly Chapel$1,000One tree was downed due to thunderstorm winds.
April 2013HailLilly Chapel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Hidden Creek At The Darby3.2 miles13
Big Plain3.5 miles11
Oakwood Acres3.7 miles13
Rupert3.8 miles13
West Jefferson3.9 miles13
Roberts (historical)3.9 miles13
Willows (historical)4.1 miles13
Madison Lake5.3 miles11

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 Lilly ChapelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6548356The 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 1064995. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.