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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.

Mount Olive within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Mount 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.

YearPeople Change
20104,079
20204,427+348 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 27 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.

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.

Brookside Coal Mine, Tipple (Foundation), Mount Olive Road, North of Five Mile Creek Bridge, Brookside, Jefferson County, AL
Brookside Coal Mine, Tipple (Foundation), Mount Olive Road, North of Five Mile Creek Bridge, Brookside, Jefferson County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

169 since 1994

Regional 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/incendiarism80
Debris and open burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionPICKLE DRIVE, AL
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1998Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined28 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20140921-002
20 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jef 1 Clay ProspectClayProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Fieldstown2.0 miles27
Gardendale2.4 miles27
Watson2.9 miles28
Crocker Junction2.9 miles28
Mineral Springs3.3 miles28
Brookside3.9 miles28
Jet4.0 miles28
Upper Coalburg4.1 miles30

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 Q1274884The 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.