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.
Population over time
2 figuresLithium 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 89 | |
| 2020 | 92 | +3 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 23 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.
- 1915 USGS Chester quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Chester quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Lithium quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1993 USGS Lithium quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 1995Regional 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 burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 15 February 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Davis Land | Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Herrin City Eng. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Perry County Stone Co. Quarry/Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Sereno Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lithium | $8,000 | Trees were blown down across County Roads 926 and 928. |
| October 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lithium | $5,000 | A trained spotter just south of St. Mary reported a lot of tree damage on the road. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lithium | $5,000 | Power lines were down on County Road 928. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lithium | $4,000 | Strong 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 2022 | Hail | Lithium | - | 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 2017 | Flash Flood | Lithium | - | 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 2016 | Flash Flood | Lithium | - | A bridge was flooded on County Road 924 northwest of Perryville. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lithium | - | Trees were blown down. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Lithium | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| McBride | 2.4 miles | 22 | |
| Sereno | 3.1 miles | 22 | |
| Saline Junction | 3.1 miles | 23 | |
| Brewer | 4.2 miles | 23 | |
| Claryville | 5.1 miles | 23 | |
| Belgique | 5.6 miles | 22 | |
| Giboney | 5.9 miles | 23 | |
| Perryville | 7.6 miles | 18 |
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 Lithium | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3316532 | 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 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.











