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Olivet, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Olivet Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66856. The Survey maps it on the Lebo quadrangle. 73 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,152 feet above sea level.

Olivet within Osage County

Population over time

2 figures

Olivet grew from 67 to 73 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
201067
202073+6 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

29 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Olivet between 2006 and 2018, burning about 322 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
10 August 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service76
8 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOsage County33
6 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service220
29 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service28
28 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service50
18 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service44
31 March 2015Smoking8.0 acresKansas Forest Service141
21 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service19

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osage County

Storms near this place

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olivet in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 10 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1996Thunderstorm WindOlivet$60,000no account filed
April 2026Tornado (EF1)Olivet-NWS tornado damage survey revealed a short path small tornado produced damage in the town of Olivet. A few outbuidings were damaged or destroyed and several large trees were uprooted or had broken branches. The damage was determined to be EF1 with winds to around 100-105 mph.
June 2024Tornado (EF0)Olivet-Another brief tornado, likely embedded in an area of just as strong downdraft winds, affected the southern short of Melvern Lake. Multiple trees were blown down or damaged, one RV was rolled over, and damage occurred to the marina.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindOlivet-Delayed report of a branch of 8 to 10 inches in diameter down.
May 2020HailOlivet-Larger than golf ball size reported.
May 2018Tornado (EF0)Olivet-EM relayed report of tornado on ground just north of I-35 Beto Junction interchange. No damage reported.
July 2015Flash FloodOlivet-Water running over the road near the intersection of 293rd st and Urish rd.
March 2009HailOlivet-Mainly penny size hail, with a few stones up to the size of quarters. Hail accumulated to approximately 1 deep on the ground.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindOlivet-24 car (empty) train derailed with tree and building damage at nearby farmsteads.
April 2011HailOlivet-no account filed
March 2009HailOlivet-no account filed
May 2009HailOlivet-no account filed
May 2009HailOlivet-no account filed
February 2007HailOlivet-no account filed
September 2005HailOlivet-no account filed
May 2004HailOlivet-no account filed
July 2003HailOlivet-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindOlivet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Osage 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
Ridgeton1.3 miles17
Arvonia6.3 miles17
Melvern6.3 miles16
Barclay9.5 miles14
Lyndon9.6 miles16
Osage City11.3 miles14
Lyndon Station11.7 miles15
Vassar13.4 miles15

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 OlivetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2666512The 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 477560. 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.