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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.

Lithia within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1955 to 1988

The 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 sheet of Lithia, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Lithia, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

Fires near this place

112 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined23
Natural22
Railroad operations and maintenance19
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking1

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
22 September 2011Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBROWNING (29)
30 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 1993Natural11 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Boyette-FishhawkPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free, IronProspect
Hillsborough Co.- Farmland/BrewsterPhosphorus-Phosphates, Magnesite, Uranium, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1950
Lithia-BoyettePhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Water, Free, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect
Ranch Rd. Grove Corporation - Ranch Road Grove 1a MineSandUnknown
Hillsborough MinesPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010LightningLithia$30,000Lightning struck a large house and caused a fire.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindLithia$25,000The Hillsborough emergency management reported that thunderstorm winds downed five telephone poles in Lithia.
June 2009LightningLithia$20,000Fifteen 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 2000Thunderstorm WindLithia$10,000Skywarn 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 2014Thunderstorm WindLithia$5,000An 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 2014Thunderstorm WindLithia$500Local law enforcement reported a downed tree roughly 8 to 10 inches in diameter down across Boyette Road.
June 2020Funnel CloudLithia-Trained Skywarn spotter reported a broad rotation funnel cloud over Fish Hawk.
September 2018HailLithia-A trained spotter in Fish Hawk reported penny size hail falling.
July 2014HailLithia-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 2001HailLithia-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 2000WildfireLithia-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 1995HailLithia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hillsborough 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
Pinecrest1.5 miles12
Aldermans Ford1.8 miles12
Fish Hawk1.9 miles12
Marvina3.2 miles13
Boyette3.4 miles12
Pleasant Grove3.8 miles13
Welcome3.9 miles12
Durant4.1 miles13

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 LithiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6647878The 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.