Mount Olive, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Rogersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35652. It lies near Slop Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Rogersville quadrangle.

Mount Olive within Lauderdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1914 USGS Rogersville quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Rogersville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1936 USGS Thorntontown quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Rogersville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Rogersville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Mount Olive between 1994 and 2016, burning about 190 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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	20
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
14 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 July 2006	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 July 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lauderdale 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Rogersville	1.4 miles	17
Thorntontown	1.9 miles	17
Toonersville	2.3 miles	17
Pine Haven Shores	2.7 miles	17
Ramblewood Shores	3.3 miles	17
Romine	3.5 miles	17
Sharps Shores	3.6 miles	17
Whitehead	3.9 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 142110. 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.