Lithium Missouri Map

About Lithium, Missouri

Lithium is a locality in Perry County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 92. The population density is 46.1 people per km². Lithium is located at 37.8334°N, 89.8859°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 63775.

Lithium emerges from the quiet, verdant folds of the earth where the Blue Spring Branch carves a persistent, clear path through the limestone-heavy soil. It lies 29.5 miles east of Farmington, MO (from Farmington, MO: bearing 83°T), and is situated 7.7 miles north of Perryville. The landscape surrounding Lithium is defined by the heavy, fertile silence of the Bois Brule basin, a low-lying expanse that demands a patient sort of stewardship from those who work its dark, alluvial dirt. To the west, the horizon is held by the distant, hazy suggestion of Lick Hill, while the nearby Middle Mississippi River National Wildlife Refuge provides a vast, protected corridor for migratory birds that mark the turning of the seasons with their restless, high-altitude calls. The air here holds a particular weight at dusk, cooling quickly as the sun slips behind the timbered ridges, casting long, bruised shadows across the fields that seem to hold the heat of the day long after the light has faded.

Lithium retains the architectural and social echoes of its nineteenth-century roots, when settlers of German and eastern European descent looked to the land for stability and a quiet life away from the industrial clamor of the growing cities. Agriculture remains the steady pulse of the local economy, a cycle of planting and harvest that dictates the pace of the days far more than any clock. Beyond the immediate fields, the proximity to Saint Marys Lake offers a place of stillness, a body of water that mirrors the expansive Missouri sky and acts as a reservoir for the local spirit. Life in Lithium is measured in the maintenance of fences and the steady, unadorned conversation at the edge of a woodlot, where the people carry a plain-spoken resilience that is as much a part of the geography as the bedrock itself.

About This Lithium Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lithium, Missouri. Coordinates: 37.833386, -89.885942. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Lithium includes the ZIP code (63775), telephone area code (816), county seat of Perry County (Perryville), and school district assignment (Perry County 32 School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.