BlockLily, South Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57274. The Survey maps it on the Lily quadrangle. 4 people lived here at the 2010 count. It stands 1,860 feet above sea level.
On record in Lily
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 3 records
Charles A. Barber Farmsteadlisted 1988
Charles A. Barber Farmstead (Boundary Increase)listed 1996- James and Wilhelmina Anderson Houselisted 2020
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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 Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Lily quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Webster quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
17 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lily in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 11 hail, 6 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lily | - | The wind was recorded by a personal weather station. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lily | - | Sixty-five mph winds downed many large tree limbs along with damaging some crops. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lily | - | An estimated wind gust of 60 mph was reported. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lily | - | Strong thunderstorm winds blew down a machine shed. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Lily | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lily | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Lily | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Lily | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Lily | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Lily | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lily | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Lily | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Lily | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Lily | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Lily | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Lily | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Lily | - | 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 Lily | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2481965 | 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 1256115. 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.
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.