Lithia, Florida
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Wimauma-Riverview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33547. The Survey maps it on the Lithia quadrangle. It stands 105 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1955 to 1988The same ground, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1955 USGS Lithia quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
112 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Lithia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,754 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 10 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Natural | 22 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2011 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | BROWNING (29) |
| 30 August 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 28 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 August 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 1993 | Natural | 11 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 5 July 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 12 July 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lithia: 3 prospects, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free, Iron, Sand, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Water, Free, Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boyette-Fishhawk | Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free, Iron | Prospect | ||
| Hillsborough Co.- Farmland/Brewster | Phosphorus-Phosphates, Magnesite, Uranium, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite | Prospect | 1950 | |
| Lithia-Boyette | Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Water, Free, Fluorine-Fluorite | Prospect | ||
| Ranch Rd. Grove Corporation - Ranch Road Grove 1a Mine | Sand | Unknown | ||
| Hillsborough Mines | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lithia in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 wildfire. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Lightning | Lithia | $30,000 | Lightning struck a large house and caused a fire. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lithia | $25,000 | The Hillsborough emergency management reported that thunderstorm winds downed five telephone poles in Lithia. |
| June 2009 | Lightning | Lithia | $20,000 | Fifteen head of cattle, including 12 cows, two calves, and one bull, all humpbacked Brahmans, were killed when lightning struck the field in which the herd was standing. Time is estimated based off of radar. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lithia | $10,000 | Skywarn Spotters reported that thunderstorm winds downed power lines and a few trees near the intersection of County Road 39 and Keysville Road over rural eastern Hillsborough county. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lithia | $5,000 | An off duty NWS employee reported several trees knocked down or uprooted, including one blocking a roadway in Fish Hawk. Additionally, social media pictures of fence damage were posted from Fish Hawk. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lithia | $500 | Local law enforcement reported a downed tree roughly 8 to 10 inches in diameter down across Boyette Road. |
| June 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Lithia | - | Trained Skywarn spotter reported a broad rotation funnel cloud over Fish Hawk. |
| September 2018 | Hail | Lithia | - | A trained spotter in Fish Hawk reported penny size hail falling. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Lithia | - | The Channing Park community Facebook site reported hail in the neighborhood. The majority of the hail was nickel size with some measuring up to quarter-size. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Lithia | - | An off-duty NWS meteorologist reported quarter to dime sized hail in the FishHawk Ranch subdivision, along FishHawk Boulevard to near the County Road 640 (Lithia-Pinecrest Road) intersection. |
| May 2000 | Wildfire | Lithia | - | Sparks from a moving freight train ignited two seperate wildfires that consumed nearly 600 acres of brush and scrub trees near County Road 37 and Keysville Road over rural eastern Hillsborough county. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Lithia | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pinecrest | 1.5 miles | 12 | |
| Aldermans Ford | 1.8 miles | 12 | |
| Fish Hawk | 1.9 miles | 12 | |
| Marvina | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Boyette | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Pleasant Grove | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Welcome | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Durant | 4.1 miles | 13 |
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 Lithia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6647878 | 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 285575. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.






