Welcome to Lilly ...

So far, we found very little information about Lilly. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Lilly to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Lilly - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Lilly, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Lilly , we believe that it would have been located within present day McPherson County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Lilly, you might consider that their post office opened in 1874.

Time Zone: The area where Lilly was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

If Lilly still existed, it would have been in the (620) area code.

Communities Also Named Lilly ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 10 communities that are also named Lilly - they are located in Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Lilly.

Adding Lilly to Our Gazetteer ...

As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Lilly was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Lilly post office opened in 1874.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Lilly.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for McPherson County: www.mcphersoncountyks.us/

The official website for State of Kansas: https://portal.kansas.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Lilly, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Kansas' counties, including McPherson, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/