BlockOlive Branch, Illinois
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Olive Branch precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62969. It lies near Coakley Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Tamms quadrangle. 650 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 341 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresOlive Branch fell from 864 to 650 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 | 864 | |
| 2020 | 650 | -214 (-25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 22 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.
- 1934 USGS Thebes quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1939 USGS Thebes quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Thebes quadrangle1:62500
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Tamms quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Cape Girardeau quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Cape Girardeau quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1996 USGS Tamms quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
16 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Olive Branch between 1998 and 2020, burning about 250 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | 3.2 acres | Shawnee National Forest | SANDY CREEK FIRE |
| 9 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | MT. ZION |
| 8 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Shawnee National Forest | TAMMS OLIVE |
| 8 March 2010 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Shawnee National Forest | OLIVE |
| 6 March 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 acres | Shawnee National Forest | GREGG HOLLOW |
| 26 March 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Shawnee National Forest | LITTLE RED HOUSE |
| 28 February 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Shawnee National Forest | GREG HOLLOW |
| 20 February 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | HILL |
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 Olive Branch: 3 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Diatomite, Clay, Silica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miss.River Shale Exposure | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Shawnee Special Use Silica Deposit 4 | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Birk No. 3 Mine | Diatomite | Prospect | ||
| Birk No.3 Mine | Diatomite | Prospect |
Storms near this place
25 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olive Branch in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 13 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 3 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olive Branch | $100,000 | A survey of the damage indicated a microburst with peak winds to 85 MPH occurred. On the south side of town, 20 to 30 trees and power lines were down. Several homes received major roof damage. A tree fell on a mobile home, and a garage was blown off its foundation. A front porch was damaged. A roof was partially blown off a metal building. One small storage shed was destroyed, and another shed was blown off its foundation. The damage path was divergent from west to east. The damage path was about 750 yards wide and 600 yards long. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olive Branch | $50,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were down. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olive Branch | $20,000 | Trees were blown down. A tree was down on a trailer. Road signs were down on Illinois Route 3 at Olive Branch. |
| April 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olive Branch | $5,000 | A tree was down on a house. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olive Branch | $5,000 | Several trees were down across the county, especially in the Olive Branch area. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olive Branch | $5,000 | Several trees and a couple of power poles were blown down. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olive Branch | $4,000 | Trees were blown down over Illinois Route 3. |
| November 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olive Branch | $2,000 | Three trees were down, blocking roads in and near Olive Branch. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Olive Branch | - | Quarter-size hail was reported at Horseshoe Lake. |
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Olive Branch | - | Water was over Route 3 north of Olive Branch. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Olive Branch | - | Golf-ball size hail occurred at Horseshoe Lake. |
| April 2008 | Flash Flood | Olive Branch | - | Several roads were underwater. A woman was rescued from floodwaters in Olive Branch. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olive Branch | - | Trees were blown down. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olive Branch | - | Two to three trees were blown down between Olive Branch and Tamms. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Olive Branch | - | Slow-moving thunderstorms persisted for several hours in a narrow band along the Mississippi River. On the Illinois side of the river, the heaviest rain was north of Cairo in Alexander County. Radar estimated rainfall amounts from 4 to 6 inches in this band. The automated observing system at the Cape Girardeau, Missouri airport measured about 5 inches of rain in six hours. Sections of Route 3 in Olive Branch were under water. Several smaller roads were closed. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olive Branch | - | The county road department reported trees and limbs were blown down near Olive Branch and Miller City. |
| April 2019 | Hail | Olive Branch | - | no account filed |
| September 2017 | Hail | Olive Branch | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Olive Branch | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Olive Branch | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olive Branch | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Olive Branch | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Olive Branch | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Olive Branch | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olive Branch | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clank | 2.0 miles | 22 | |
| Tankville | 3.3 miles | 22 | |
| Shasta (historical) | 3.4 miles | 22 | |
| Fayville | 4.0 miles | 22 | |
| Miller City | 4.0 miles | 21 | |
| Dawleys | 4.2 miles | 22 | |
| Hodges Park | 4.3 miles | 22 | |
| Unity | 4.4 miles | 22 |
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 Olive Branch | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7087135 | 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 425282. 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.