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.
Population over time
2 figuresOlivet 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 67 | |
| 2020 | 73 | +6 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1885 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Lebo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
29 since 2006Regional 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 burning | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 76 |
| 8 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Osage County | 33 |
| 6 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 220 |
| 29 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 28 |
| 28 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 50 |
| 18 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 44 |
| 31 March 2015 | Smoking | 8.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 141 |
| 21 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 19 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olivet | $60,000 | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Tornado (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 2024 | Tornado (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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olivet | - | Delayed report of a branch of 8 to 10 inches in diameter down. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Olivet | - | Larger than golf ball size reported. |
| May 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Olivet | - | EM relayed report of tornado on ground just north of I-35 Beto Junction interchange. No damage reported. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Olivet | - | Water running over the road near the intersection of 293rd st and Urish rd. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Olivet | - | Mainly penny size hail, with a few stones up to the size of quarters. Hail accumulated to approximately 1 deep on the ground. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olivet | - | 24 car (empty) train derailed with tree and building damage at nearby farmsteads. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Olivet | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Olivet | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Olivet | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Olivet | - | no account filed |
| February 2007 | Hail | Olivet | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Olivet | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Olivet | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Olivet | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olivet | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ridgeton | 1.3 miles | 17 | |
| Arvonia | 6.3 miles | 17 | |
| Melvern | 6.3 miles | 16 | |
| Barclay | 9.5 miles | 14 | |
| Lyndon | 9.6 miles | 16 | |
| Osage City | 11.3 miles | 14 | |
| Lyndon Station | 11.7 miles | 15 | |
| Vassar | 13.4 miles | 15 |
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 Olivet | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2666512 | 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 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.








