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Dilly, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Forest town. It lies in ZIP code area 54634. The Survey maps it on the Trippville quadrangle. It stands 1,138 feet above sea level.

Dilly within Vernon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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.

In the county-history sources

3,760 words on this township

History of Vernon County, Wisconsin .., published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Forest Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Forest Town - 3,760 words.

Fires near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Dilly between 2008 and 2020, burning about 18 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
20 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2012
16 April 2008Equipment and vehicle use18 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vernon County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dilly in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2026: 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2026HailDilly-Local fire and rescue reported quarter sized hail 2 miles east-northeast of Dilly.
September 2024HailDilly-Emergency management reported quarter sized hail 5 miles west of Hillsboro.
July 2014HailDilly-Quarter sized hail fell northwest of Hillsboro.
May 2007HailDilly-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Vernon 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
White City1.8 miles11
Mount Tabor4.1 miles11
Trippville5.0 miles11
Hillsboro5.1 miles11
Valley5.4 miles12
Greenwood5.5 miles11
Rockton8.6 miles12
Ontario9.9 miles12

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 DillyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5276985The 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 1577573. 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.