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Lithium, Missouri

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Saline Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63775. It stands on Falls Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lithium quadrangle. 92 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 381 feet above sea level.

Lithium within Perry County

Population over time

2 figures

Lithium grew from 89 to 92 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201089
202092+3 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lithium between 1995 and 2011, burning about 9 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
29 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 February 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lithium: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead. 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
George Davis LandLeadPast Producer
Herrin City Eng.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Perry County Stone Co. Quarry/PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sereno QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lithium in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood. 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
August 2015Thunderstorm WindLithium$8,000Trees were blown down across County Roads 926 and 928.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindLithium$5,000A trained spotter just south of St. Mary reported a lot of tree damage on the road.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindLithium$5,000Power lines were down on County Road 928.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindLithium$4,000Strong winds blew limbs down across many county roads, as well as a large tree across County Road 922. A small tree fell across a driveway.
April 2022HailLithium-Trained spotters reported large hail from quarter size to ping-pong ball size. The large hail occurred in a west to east swath around the Perryville airport. The large hail accompanied a supercell thunderstorm across northern Perry County. Damaging winds and a brief tornado occurred just slightly south of the hail swath.
June 2017Flash FloodLithium-In the Perryville area, portions of State Highway T were closed, and standing water was over portions of Highway 51. Rainfall rates of two inches per hour were not uncommon. Storm totals were locally near four inches in Perryville.
May 2016Flash FloodLithium-A bridge was flooded on County Road 924 northwest of Perryville.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindLithium-Trees were blown down.
June 2013HailLithium-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
McBride2.4 miles22
Sereno3.1 miles22
Saline Junction3.1 miles23
Brewer4.2 miles23
Claryville5.1 miles23
Belgique5.6 miles22
Giboney5.9 miles23
Perryville7.6 miles18

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 LithiumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3316532The 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 721146. 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.