Mount Olive, Alabama
27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Gardendale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35117. It lies near Bagley Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Gardendale quadrangle. 4,427 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 607 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMount Olive grew from 4,079 to 4,427 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 | 4,079 | |
| 2020 | 4,427 | +348 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 27 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.
- 1889 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000
- 1895 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1904 USGS Birmingham Coal District quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Birmingham Coal District quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1906 USGS Birmingham Special quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gardendale quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1975 USGS Gardendale quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
169 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Mount Olive between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,398 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 80 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 80 |
| Debris and open burning | 49 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2003 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | PICKLE DRIVE, AL |
| 5 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | NER-20140921-002 |
| 20 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mount Olive: 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jef 1 Clay Prospect | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed | Iron | Unknown |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fieldstown | 2.0 miles | 27 | |
| Gardendale | 2.4 miles | 27 | |
| Watson | 2.9 miles | 28 | |
| Crocker Junction | 2.9 miles | 28 | |
| Mineral Springs | 3.3 miles | 28 | |
| Brookside | 3.9 miles | 28 | |
| Jet | 4.0 miles | 28 | |
| Upper Coalburg | 4.1 miles | 30 |
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 Q1274884 | 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 123277. 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.












