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Mount Olive, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45106. The Survey maps it on the Bethel quadrangle.

Mount Olive within Clermont County

Then and now

1931 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 55 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mount Olive, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Mount Olive, surveyed 1931

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

In the 1891 county history

50 words on this township

The county history of 1891 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Franklin Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Franklin Township - 50 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 225 shown

Museums hold 225 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mount Olive between 1866 and 1975: 154 Animalia, 52 Fungi, 17 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.M Bradford, Braun, E. Lucy, Bureau of Fisheries and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Galium concinnum, not of this specimenGalium concinnum Torr. & A.Gray1866Mohr, C.Bantam
Chordata1886Smithsonian Institution
A photograph of the species Geothlypis formosa, not of this specimenGeothlypis formosa (A.Wilson, 1811)1896A.M BradfordBradford
A photograph of the species Obovaria retusa, not of this specimenObovaria retusa (Lamarck, 1819)1909Bureau of FisheriesOhio River, Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Plethobasus cyphus, not of this specimenPlethobasus cyphus (Rafinesque, 1820)1909Bureau of FisheriesOhio River, Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Aecidium Pers., not of this specimenAecidium Pers.1910C. C. M.Bantam
A photograph of the species Cladonia furcata, not of this specimenCladonia furcata (Huds.) Schrad., 17941913Braun, E. LucyBethel
A photograph of the species Usnea strigosella, not of this specimenUsnea strigosella1913Braun, E. LucyBethel
A photograph of the species Asclepias incarnata, not of this specimenAsclepias incarnata L.1917Braun, E. LucyBethel
A photograph of the species Asclepias tuberosa, not of this specimenAsclepias tuberosa L.1917Braun, E. Lucynear Bethel
Cladonia verticillata (Hoffm.) Schaer.1917Braun, E. LucyBethel
Liquidambar styraciflua L.1917Braun, E. Lucynear Bethel

All 225 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Point Isabel2.2 miles12
Wiggonsville3.0 miles12
Felicity3.3 miles11
Saltair3.8 miles12
Pinhook3.8 miles12
Stringtown4.5 miles11
Bethel5.3 miles12
Laurel5.6 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 Mount OliveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134008The 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 1062908. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.