Lily, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cottonwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57217. The Survey maps it on the Bradley quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Lily within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Bradley quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Webster quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Lily (historical) between 2005 and 2015, burning about 39 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
1 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
7 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
1 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
23 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	FRITZOBERMEIER
4 April 2006	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
11 October 2015	Debris and open burning	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HORNING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Crocker	3.4 miles	7
Bradley	5.2 miles	7
Julian (historical)	5.3 miles	8
Hillcrest Colony	9.3 miles	8
Gros (historical)	10.9 miles	7
Garden City	11.4 miles	8
Clark	13.3 miles	8
Silver Lake Colony	14.9 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1264208. 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.