Ollie, Iowa
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52576. The Survey maps it on the Ollie quadrangle. 201 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 781 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresOllie fell from 215 to 201 between 2010 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 215 | |
| 2020 | 201 | -14 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Ollie quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ollie in 2009, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ollie: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alvin Cater Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Ollie Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ollie in 12 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 8 hail, 4 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ollie | $5,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph blew down some tree limbs and power lines in Ollie, IA at 7:40 pm June 8. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Ollie | $2,000 | quarter size hail |
| July 2006 | Hail | Ollie | $2,000 | nickel to quarter size hail |
| October 2024 | Hail | Ollie | - | A trained spotter reported damage to cars from hail. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ollie | - | A trained spotter reported trees down. The time of the event was estimated using radar. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Ollie | - | Law enforcement reported half dollar size hail near Ollie. |
| April 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ollie | - | Law enforcement estimated 50 to 60 mph winds near Ollie. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Ollie | - | Quarter sized hail fell in Ollie, IA at 437 pm CDT May 22. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Ollie | - | Quarter sized hail fell 1 mile west of Ollie, IA at 1240 pm April 30. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ollie | - | Trees and powers lines down. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Ollie | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Ollie | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ioka (historical) | 2.2 miles | 7 | |
| Nugent | 5.2 miles | 7 | |
| Richland | 5.3 miles | 7 | |
| Lanscaster | 6.6 miles | 7 | |
| Martinsburg | 8.6 miles | 8 | |
| Hayesville | 9.5 miles | 7 | |
| Talleyrand | 9.5 miles | 7 | |
| Sigourney | 11.1 miles | 7 |
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 Ollie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1927968 | 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 459858. 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.
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.





