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Olga, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bryan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42629. The Survey maps it on the Creelsboro quadrangle. It stands 984 feet above sea level.

Olga within Russell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Olga between 1998 and 2014, burning about 213 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 burning4
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 July 2010Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCROCUS
8 March 2002Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2002Debris and open burning80 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 March 1999Smoking40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 March 2014Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySWOND POND
30 November 1998Smoking25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 November 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Russell County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olga in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2016Thunderstorm WindOlga$1,000The public reported a radio antenna snapped from its base due to severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindOlga-Trees were down along Highway 55 near Mills Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindOlga-Local law enforcement reported large limbs across roadways.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindOlga-Trained spotters reported large trees and power lines down southwest of Jamestown.
May 2000HailOlga-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Russell 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
Old Olga1.8 miles9
Rose Crossroads2.7 miles9
Bryan2.7 miles9
Sewellton3.1 miles9
Freedom3.5 miles9
Helm3.8 miles9
Esto4.5 miles9
Creelsboro5.0 miles9

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 OlgaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691076The 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 508746. 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.