Olney, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Dawson Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42408. It lies near Creekmur Hill. The Survey maps it on the Olney quadrangle.

Olney within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1908 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:62500
1910 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Olney quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Olney quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Olney between 1998 and 2017, burning about 280 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/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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 August 2002	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 April 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LONGBREAK ROAD
6 April 1998	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 April 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CALSSEN
1 April 2007	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 March 2015	Recreation and ceremony	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	EVANS MILL ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Olney: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten. 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
	Hobby Tungsten Deposit	Tungsten	Prospect

Every working recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olney in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 1 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 17 injuries. 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
May 2024	Tornado (EF3)	Olney	1 killed, 17 hurt, $2,700,000	An EF-3 tornado, which began northeast of Eddyville in Lyon County, crossed through the entirety of Caldwell County, then entered Hopkins County east of White School Rd. The tornado intensified and widened to its peak width of 700 yds destroying several mobile homes and wood and brick frame structures as it approached and moved just south of the Charleston community in western Hopkins County. It continued eastward just north of I-69 destroying more mobile homes and at least one more permanent residence. Two mobile homes were destroyed just north of Morton's Gap with a vehicle also flipped before the path abruptly ended just west of I-69. Widespread significant tree damage was noted along the path. A few dozen buildings were either destroyed or sustained major damage along the path with another few dozen structures sustaining damage. In Hopkins County, 17 people were injured, with 1 person (48f, direct) north of Dawson Springs dying as a result of the tornado. Peak winds with this tornado were estimated at 160 mph.
September 2012	Hail	Olney	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Kirkwood Springs	2.0 miles	13
Walnut Grove (historical)	4.9 miles	13
Dalton	5.3 miles	13
Charleston	5.7 miles	13
Sixth Vein	6.0 miles	13
Beulah	6.0 miles	13
Dawson Springs	6.1 miles	13
Rabbit Ridge	6.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508750. 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.