BlockOliver, Nebraska
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Antelope precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69145. The Survey maps it on the Oliver Reservoir quadrangle.
On record in Oliver
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 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Maginnis Irrigation Aqueductlisted 1994 · 0.5 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Oliver Reservoir quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Kimball quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Oliver between 2010 and 2018, burning about 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 May 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 October 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oliver in 8 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 6 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | Hail | Oliver | - | Five miles west of Kimball. Storm Chaser submitted photo of 1.75 inch hail via social media. |
| June 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Oliver | - | A thin rope tornado began along Interstate 80 around 5 miles southwest of Kimball at 8:01 PM MDT. The tornado remained over mainly open farmland south of the Interstate. The tornado did impact one property, where a cinder block outbuilding was destroyed. Cinder blocks were thrown approximately 50 yards in a scattered debris pattern north of CR 28. Additionally, a large shipping container was moved off its foundation by 6 inches. Finally, a large tandem-disk plow weighing 20,000 pounds was pushed approximately 15 feet in a field just north of CR 28. The tornado dissipated about 4 miles WSW of Kimball at 8:05 PM MDT. |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Oliver | - | Several county roads were washed out or damaged. Several streets in Kimball were under one to two feet of water. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Oliver | - | Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported at the Oliver Reservoir State Recreation Area. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Oliver | - | Hail was accompanied by torrential rain. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Oliver | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Oliver | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Oliver | - | 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.
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 Oliver | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18356972 | 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 835398. 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.