Mount Olive, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the South Twiggs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31044. It stands on Hasty Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tarversville quadrangle.

Mount Olive within Twiggs County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1956 USGS Jeffersonville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Tarversville quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

441 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 441 fires within 5 miles of Mount Olive between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,231 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 41 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	248
Equipment and vehicle use	70
Arson/incendiarism	41
Smoking	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Natural	16
Recreation and ceremony	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	10

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
8 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-TWIGGS-001
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-TWIGGS-002
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Twiggs County

Storms near this place

15 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Olive in 15 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Mount Olive	$60,000	The Jefferson County 911 Center and Amateur radio operators reported trees down between Interstate 16 and Jeffersonville. A tree fell on a house on Charlie Floyd Road.
August 2021	Tornado (EF0)	Mount Olive	$50,000	A National Weather Service survey found that an EF0 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 80 mph and a maximum path width of 150 yards touched down just south of I-16 near exit 24. The tornado moved north across I-16 flipping several boats outside of a distribution center for Academy Sports and Outdoors on the north side of the interstate. The distribution center sustaining minor roof damage with pieces of metal sheeting blown into a nearby fence along Missile Base Road. One wall on a small pump station near a well was also blown in. The tornado continued north with trees blown down around the intersection of Prospect Church Road and Highway 96. The tornado dissipated just north of this intersection. [8/17/21: Tornado #3, County #1/1, EF-0, Twiggs, 2021:017].
November 2014	Tornado (EF1)	Mount Olive	$15,000	An NWS survey based on radar, photos and information provided by the Twiggs County Emergency Manager determined an EF1 tornado, with winds of 105 MPH and a path a half mile long and 100 yards wide, destroyed a singlewide mobile home, damaged a barn and downed several trees as it crossed Longstreet Road in southern Twiggs County. [11/17/14: Tornado #1, County #1-1, EF1, Twiggs, 2014:017].
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Mount Olive	$7,000	The Twiggs County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees blown down across the southeastern portion of the county from around the intersection of Longstreet Road and Highway 96 to Danville.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Mount Olive	$5,000	The Twiggs County 911 center reported a tree and a power line blown down on State Highway 358 near State Highway 96.
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Mount Olive	$1,500	Broadcast media relayed a report of several trees blown down along Highways 96 and 358 in southern Twiggs County.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Mount Olive	$1,000	Tree down at Elsharah Church Rd and Sam Floyd Rd.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Mount Olive	$1,000	The Twiggs County 911 center reported a power line blown down in the District Path area.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Mount Olive	-	Metal roofing removed from a carport and damage to the roof of a barn on the 1500 Block of Hwy 358.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Mount Olive	-	Emergency manager reported lines down at the intersection of Carden Road and Lucy Chapel Bypass.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Mount Olive	-	At least 15 trees downed along with several powerlines down on GA Hwy 96 just south of the Jeffersonville exit.
September 2023	Hail	Mount Olive	-	Report of Golf Ball sized hail on Hwy 358 near Woodland Rd.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Mount Olive	-	Damage to residential roof and partial collapse of barn near 350 and Woodland Rd. Multiple trees, powerlines, and transformer down. Damage to other buildings also reported in area.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Mount Olive	-	Trees and powerlines reported down on Academy Dr.
October 2021	Flash Flood	Mount Olive	-	The Emergency Manager reported road closures along and near Interstate 16 near Danville. Radar estimates indicate that 2.5 to 4 inches of rain occurred over the area, resulting in the flash flooding.

Every storm recorded in Twiggs 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
District Path	2.1 miles	10
Tarversville	4.1 miles	10
Mount Calvary	5.5 miles	10
Marion	6.0 miles	11
Bullard	6.7 miles	11
Jeffersonville	7.5 miles	11
Danville	7.7 miles	8
Westlake	8.3 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 334740. 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.