Mount Olive, Alabama
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Weogufka-Marble Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35072. The Survey maps it on the Hollins quadrangle. 311 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 823 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMount Olive fell from 371 to 311 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 | 371 | |
| 2020 | 311 | -60 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 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.
- 1890 USGS Talladega quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Talladega quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1944 USGS Goodwater quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Goodwater quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Goodwater SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Birmingham South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Hollins quadrangle1:24000
- 2001 USGS Hollins quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
147 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Mount Olive between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,588 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 42 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 burning | 63 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 42 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | ECR-20120907-001 |
| 24 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190924-24 |
| 19 September 2010 | Natural | 2.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | ECR-20150914-001 |
| 14 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 17 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Mount Olive: 6 past producers, 5 prospects, 5 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Tin, Graphite, Mica, Vanadium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceylon Graphite Mine | Graphite, Vanadium, Mica | Past Producer | 1916 | |
| Gantts Number 4 Quarry | Marble, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Miller Mine | Gold | Past Producer | Placer | |
| USGS MR-60 Alabama No.6 Prospect | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | ||
| Hertzfield Mine | Mica | Past Producer | ||
| Ceylon Graphite | Graphite | Past Producer | 1865, 1916 | |
| Epps - Goodwater Area | Graphite | Past Producer | 1865, 1917 | |
| Lewis Brown Property | Graphite | Occurrence | ||
| Parkdale Mine | Graphite | Past Producer | ||
| Will Maxwell Property | Graphite | Occurrence |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkdale | 2.3 miles | 23 | |
| Holman Crossroads | 3.9 miles | 23 | |
| Hatchet | 4.0 miles | 23 | |
| Goodwater | 4.3 miles | 23 | |
| Hanover | 5.7 miles | 23 | |
| Bradford | 5.8 miles | 14 | |
| Stewartville | 5.8 miles | 23 | |
| Soleo | 6.5 miles | 23 |
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 Mount Olive | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6922512 | 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 160159. 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.










