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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.

Mount Olive within Coosa County

Population over time

2 figures

Mount 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.

YearPeople Change
2010371
2020311-60 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

147 since 1994

Regional 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 burning63
Arson/incendiarism42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2

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
7 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120907-001
24 September 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-24
19 September 2010Natural2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20150914-001
14 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ceylon Graphite MineGraphite, Vanadium, MicaPast Producer1916
Gantts Number 4 QuarryMarble, DimensionProducer
Miller MineGoldPast ProducerPlacer
USGS MR-60 Alabama No.6 ProspectFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Hertzfield MineMicaPast Producer
Ceylon GraphiteGraphitePast Producer1865, 1916
Epps - Goodwater AreaGraphitePast Producer1865, 1917
Lewis Brown PropertyGraphiteOccurrence
Parkdale MineGraphitePast Producer
Will Maxwell PropertyGraphiteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Coosa 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
Parkdale2.3 miles23
Holman Crossroads3.9 miles23
Hatchet4.0 miles23
Goodwater4.3 miles23
Hanover5.7 miles23
Bradford5.8 miles14
Stewartville5.8 miles23
Soleo6.5 miles23

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 OliveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6922512The 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.