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Olympia, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64744. It stands on Hicklin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Montevallo quadrangle.

Olympia within Cedar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Olympia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 432 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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
5 April 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 April 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 March 2014Debris and open burning60 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 February 2014Debris and open burning60 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 February 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined202 acresMissouri Department of Conservation240984-02004-11072020-1400
17 November 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cedar County

Storms near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olympia in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 4 hail, 3 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
April 2025Thunderstorm WindOlympia$40,000A few outbuildings and a barn suffered minor damage from high winds.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindOlympia$10,000An outbuilding suffered significant damage.
April 2022HailOlympia$5,000The ground was reported covered in hail at least quarters in size. A wind shield and a house window were reported damaged.
April 1994HailOlympia$50no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindOlympia-no account filed
April 2003HailOlympia-no account filed
April 2003HailOlympia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cedar 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
Pacetown2.6 miles17
Virgil City3.6 miles19
Osiris4.0 miles17
Tingley4.7 miles14
Filley4.8 miles17
Wagoner6.7 miles14
Edsall (historical)6.9 miles14
Willowville6.9 miles17

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 OlympiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27984389The 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 741119. 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.