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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 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.
- 1886 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Montevallo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
9 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 1992 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 2 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 11 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 27 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 22 February 2014 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 15 February 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 7 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 202 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 240984-02004-11072020-1400 |
| 17 November 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olympia | $40,000 | A few outbuildings and a barn suffered minor damage from high winds. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olympia | $10,000 | An outbuilding suffered significant damage. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Olympia | $5,000 | The ground was reported covered in hail at least quarters in size. A wind shield and a house window were reported damaged. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Olympia | $50 | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olympia | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Olympia | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Olympia | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pacetown | 2.6 miles | 17 | |
| Virgil City | 3.6 miles | 19 | |
| Osiris | 4.0 miles | 17 | |
| Tingley | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Filley | 4.8 miles | 17 | |
| Wagoner | 6.7 miles | 14 | |
| Edsall (historical) | 6.9 miles | 14 | |
| Willowville | 6.9 miles | 17 |
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 Olympia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q27984389 | 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 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.









