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.
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
Harris-Murrow-Trowell Houselisted 2009
Population over time
3 figuresOliver 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 253 | |
| 2010 | 239 | -14 (-6%) |
| 2020 | 210 | -29 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1918 USGS Oliver quadrangle1:62500
- 1920 USGS Oliver quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Millen quadrangle1:125000
- 1943 USGS Oliver quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Oliver quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
199 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 108 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 44 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020SCREVEN008 |
| 24 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-SCREVEN-009 |
| 9 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-BULLOCH-005 |
| 6 August 1993 | Debris and open burning | 3.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 59 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-EFFINGHAM-009 |
| 26 August 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oliver | $1,000 | Law Enforcement reported a tree down on South Carolina Highway 17 near Oliver, Georgia. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oliver | - | The Screven County 911 Call Center reported two trees down on Highway 24 southwest of Oliver. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oliver | - | Screven County dispatch reported a tree down near Oliver Landing. |
| March 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oliver | - | Several trees and numerous large branches down, |
| November 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oliver | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stalco | 1.6 miles | 16 | |
| Halcyondale | 3.7 miles | 16 | |
| Newington | 5.0 miles | 16 | |
| Eureka Springs (historical) | 6.0 miles | 16 | |
| Cameron | 7.9 miles | 16 | |
| Captolo | 7.9 miles | 16 | |
| Sheppards | 8.0 miles | 16 | |
| Middleground | 8.3 miles | 16 |
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 Oliver | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q776298 | The 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.










