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Mount Olive, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Hayden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35079. It stands on Pannell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nectar quadrangle.

Mount Olive within Blount County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

123 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Mount Olive between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,095 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 17 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
Debris and open burning53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism17
Recreation and ceremony16
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural4
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2007Debris and open burning12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-1
27 September 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160927-15

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blount County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mount Olive: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
F & W Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Nectar PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Blount 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
Harkness Crossroads0.4 miles21
Wallstown1.5 miles21
Sugar Creek2.5 miles21
Hayden2.8 miles23
Little Shenandoah2.8 miles21
High Rock3.3 miles21
Bent Tree3.8 miles23
Blount Springs4.3 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156749. 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.