[1] Lily Lake is in the United States Geological Survey quadrangle of Nanticoke.

[5] A total of 93 percent of the shoreline of Lily Lake is owned by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.

[5] Lily Lake was entered into the Geographic Names Information System on August 2, 1979.

[3] This name appears in Patton's Philadelphia and Suburbs Street and Road Map, which was published in 1984.

[9] Lily Lake is listed on the Luzerne County Natural Areas Inventory.

[4] Odonate species inhabiting the area in the vicinity of Lily Lake include Aeshna clepsydra, Celithemis eponina, Libellula incesta, Ischnura kellicotti, and Sympetrum semicinctum.

Plant species in the vicinity of the lake include Bidens discoidea, Myriophyllum heterophyllum, Schoenoplectus torreyi, and Utricularia intermedia.

Boats on the lake are also required to travel at limited speeds between noon and sunset from the Saturday before Memorial Day until September 30 as of 1994.