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Olivette, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Creve Coeur Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63132. It stands on Fordyce Fork. The Survey maps it on the Creve Coeur quadrangle. 8,504 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 663 feet above sea level.

Olivette within St. Louis County

On record in Olivette

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Olivette grew from 7,737 to 8,504 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
20107,737
20208,504+767 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Olivette in 2014, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined1

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
18 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Olivette: 25 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Perlite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
St Louis Perlite PlantPerliteProducer
Gilker Fireclay MineFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Jamieson MineFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Mathieson and Hegeler MineFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Alton Brick Co Pit & PlantClayProducer
Evans and Howard Mine Number FiveClayPast Producer
Highlands Mine Number FourClayPast Producer
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Big Bend QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Creve Coeur QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

10 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olivette in 10 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindOlivette$25,000A swath of wind damage was reported across Olivette and University City. Numerous reports of large tree limbs blown down as well as several large trees. One tree fell onto a house in Olivette causing moderate roof damage.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindOlivette-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees and numerous power lines.
April 2012HailOlivette-There were numerous reports of large hail in Olivette, with some of the stones as large as baseballs.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindOlivette-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs.
May 2008HailOlivette-Storm spotters reported nickel size hail at I-270 and Page Blvd. and at Olive Blvd. and Ballas Road.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindOlivette-Numerous tree limbs were blown down.
May 2025HailOlivette-no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindOlivette-no account filed
June 2005HailOlivette-no account filed
May 2004HailOlivette-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Ladue1.1 miles22
Vinita Park2.5 miles20
Creve Coeur2.5 miles22
Overland2.6 miles20
Sycamore Hills2.8 miles20
Vinita Terrace2.8 miles20
Frontenac2.9 miles22
Ascalon3.0 miles22

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 OlivetteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q965914The 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 756479. 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.