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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.

Ollie within Keokuk County

Population over time

2 figures

Ollie 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.

YearPeople Change
2010215
2020201-14 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

1 since 2009

Regional 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/undetermined1

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
19 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Keokuk County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alvin Cater QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ollie QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Keokuk County

Storms near this place

12 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOllie$5,000Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph blew down some tree limbs and power lines in Ollie, IA at 7:40 pm June 8.
July 2006HailOllie$2,000quarter size hail
July 2006HailOllie$2,000nickel to quarter size hail
October 2024HailOllie-A trained spotter reported damage to cars from hail.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindOllie-A trained spotter reported trees down. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
April 2012HailOllie-Law enforcement reported half dollar size hail near Ollie.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindOllie-Law enforcement estimated 50 to 60 mph winds near Ollie.
May 2011HailOllie-Quarter sized hail fell in Ollie, IA at 437 pm CDT May 22.
April 2010HailOllie-Quarter sized hail fell 1 mile west of Ollie, IA at 1240 pm April 30.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindOllie-Trees and powers lines down.
April 2026HailOllie-no account filed
May 2023HailOllie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Keokuk 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
Ioka (historical)2.2 miles7
Nugent5.2 miles7
Richland5.3 miles7
Lanscaster6.6 miles7
Martinsburg8.6 miles8
Hayesville9.5 miles7
Talleyrand9.5 miles7
Sigourney11.1 miles7

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 OllieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1927968The 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.