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Olga, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Fort Myers Shores census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33905. It stands on Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Olga quadrangle. 2,270 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Olga within Lee County

Then and now

1956 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 31 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Olga, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Olga, surveyed 1956

On record in Olga

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Olga grew from 1,398 to 2,270 between 2000 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
20001,398
20101,952+554 (+40%)
20202,270+318 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

277 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 277 fires within 5 miles of Olga between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,626 acres in total. 87 started naturally. 18 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
Natural87
Railroad operations and maintenance51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Debris and open burning27
Equipment and vehicle use22
Arson/incendiarism18
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Fireworks2
Smoking1

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
9 September 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service36/0506-NOV
25 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 September 1992Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 August 1992Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-17-1102

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olga in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2026: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2016Thunderstorm WindOlga$10,000Local law enforcement reported numerous large trees down on West Court Place in Buckingham.
April 2026Funnel CloudOlga-Broadcast media relayed video of a funnel cloud near Fort Myers Shores taken from the River Hall Community.

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Telegraph Estates1.6 miles13
Fort Myers Shores1.9 miles13
Verandah2.3 miles13
Buckingham3.2 miles13
Morse Shores5.2 miles14
Alva5.4 miles13
Alta Vista Park Mobille Home Park5.9 miles14
Bayshore5.9 miles14

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 OlgaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2571676The 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 294874. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.