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Viburnum is a city in Iron County, Missouri, located in the New Lead Belt of the Southeast Missouri Lead District, one of the world's great lead-mining regions.

The city was named for the genus Viburnum, the group of shrubs commonly known as black haw and arrowwood, and a post office called Viburnum was established in 1907.

Settlements including Viburnum first grew up along the railroad serving the Sligo Furnace Company, which from 1889 used the area's virgin timber to make charcoal for its iron furnaces.

Lead ore of the Viburnum Trend was discovered in the 1950s and mining production began in 1960, building the modern mining town whose fortunes still rise and fall with the lead industry.

The Doe Run Company, the mining operator central to Viburnum's economy, was formed in 1986 from the mining divisions of St. Joe Minerals Corporation and other merged operations.

Viburnum celebrates its mining heritage with Old Miners' Days, a festival first held in 1987.

By the early 1950s the old settlement of Viburnum had dwindled to just three or four houses, one of which — now home to a plumbing business — is regarded as the city's oldest commercial building.

Viburnum is surrounded by national forest land, in what was once the Clark National Forest and is now part of the Mark Twain National Forest.

Viburnum had a population of 667 at the 2020 census, and the 2010 census counted 693 people living in 278 households.

The city covers about 1.73 square miles in the wooded hills of Iron County, about 20 miles west of Belgrade.