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Olive, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Drumright census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74030. The Survey maps it on the Olive quadrangle. 110 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Olive within Creek County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

18 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Olive between 2000 and 2020, burning about 6,622 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined10
Natural4
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
26 August 2000Natural40 acresOsage AgencyRUSSELL
10 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresPawnee AgencyOLIVE COMPLEX
24 July 2012Natural132 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeBADGER
28 June 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution1,680 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeJOHNSON
3 April 2011Natural17 acresOkmulgee Field OfficePOWERLINE
2 April 2015Debris and open burning250 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeFORMAN
7 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeSILVER BLOWERS
5 March 2011Natural40 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeDRUM EAST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Creek County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Olive: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Quapaw Co. Limestone Pits & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Creek County

Storms near this place

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olive in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2020Tornado (EF0)Olive$35,000This tornado developed just south of Highway 33 and west of S 433rd West Avenue, where large tree limbs were snapped. It moved northeast destroying an open air barn, uprooting a tree, and damaging a home. The tornado then blew the roof from a mobile home, and blew the roof off a barn east of S 433rd West Avenue. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 80 to 85 mph.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindOlive$20,000Strong thunderstorm wind destroyed a carport, damaged a mobile home, damaged an outbuilding, and blew down trees.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindOlive-The Oklahoma Mesonet station near Oilton measured thunderstorm wind gusts up to 67 mph.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindOlive-The Oklahoma Mesonet station near Oilton measured 60 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindOlive-The Oklahoma Mesonet station near Oilton measured wind gusts above 58 mph for at least ten minutes, with the highest measured gust reaching 83 mph at 1150 pm CDT.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindOlive-The Oklahoma Mesonet station near Oilton measured 62 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindOlive-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
April 2006HailOlive-no account filed
February 1995HailOlive-no account filed
June 1995Tornado (F0)Olive-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Creek 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
Silver City4.3 miles13
Lawrence Creek4.9 miles13
Oilton6.7 miles12
Frey6.9 miles12
Drumright7.0 miles11
Markham7.1 miles12
Pemeta7.2 miles12
Player8.0 miles12

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 OliveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7087114The 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 1096256. 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.