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Oliver, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Newington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30449. The Survey maps it on the Oliver quadrangle. 210 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 115 feet above sea level.

Oliver within Screven County

On record in Oliver

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

Oliver fell from 253 to 210 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
2000253
2010239-14 (-6%)
2020210-29 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

199 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Oliver between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,170 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 44 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 burning108
Arson/incendiarism44
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Debris and open burning10 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020SCREVEN008
24 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-SCREVEN-009
9 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BULLOCH-005
6 August 1993Debris and open burning3.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2011Debris and open burning59 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-EFFINGHAM-009
26 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Screven County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oliver in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 5 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindOliver$1,000Law Enforcement reported a tree down on South Carolina Highway 17 near Oliver, Georgia.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindOliver-The Screven County 911 Call Center reported two trees down on Highway 24 southwest of Oliver.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindOliver-Screven County dispatch reported a tree down near Oliver Landing.
March 2001Thunderstorm WindOliver-Several trees and numerous large branches down,
November 1997Thunderstorm WindOliver-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Screven 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
Stalco1.6 miles16
Halcyondale3.7 miles16
Newington5.0 miles16
Eureka Springs (historical)6.0 miles16
Cameron7.9 miles16
Captolo7.9 miles16
Sheppards8.0 miles16
Middleground8.3 miles16

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 OliverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q776298The 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 332571. 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.