Mount Olive, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Northport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35452. The Survey maps it on the Lake Lurleen quadrangle.

Mount Olive within Tuscaloosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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.

1926 USGS Samantha quadrangle1:48000
1928 USGS Samantha quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Lake Lurleen quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

85 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Mount Olive between 1994 and 2020, burning about 450 acres in total. 2 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	32
Arson/incendiarism	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	9.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190922-3
21 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2020	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200920-2
2 September 1995	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 Tuscaloosa 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
Highview	0.1 miles	18
Thorndale	1.2 miles	18
North Valley Acres	2.9 miles	18
Huntington Place	2.9 miles	18
Graceland Acres	2.9 miles	18
Carolwood Estates	3.0 miles	18
Saratoga Estates	3.0 miles	18
Wood Estates	3.1 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 157866. 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.