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Olive City, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It lies in ZIP code area 92225. It stands on Ehrenberg Wash. The Survey maps it on the Blythe quadrangle. It stands 266 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Olive City within La Paz County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Olive City (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,916 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined61
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use15
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Central DistrictCOMBER
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado River DistrictCOMBER ASSIST
8 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitLOCAL 14854
30 September 1995Smokingunder an acreRiverside UnitLOCAL
24 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 2750
23 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside Unit8TH AV BLYT
19 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRiverside UnitLOCAL
17 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitLOCAL 15041

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in La Paz County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Olive City (historical): 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Gold. 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
Baker Copper Co.Copper, SilverOccurrence
La Paz PlacersGold, SilverPast Producer
Goodman WashSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Midland Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in La Paz 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
Ehrenberg0.5 miles21
Morgantown4.8 miles25
La Paz (historical)7.1 miles25
La Paz Valley15.2 miles17
Quartzsite16.1 miles17
Cibola21.6 miles22
Plomosa21.7 miles18
Poston27.1 miles22

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 Olive City (historical)An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20709549The 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 42818. 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.