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Olive Green, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Porter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43074. It stands on Long Run. The Survey maps it on the Olive Green quadrangle.

Olive Green within Delaware County

Then and now

1915 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Olive Green, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Olive Green, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,317 shown

Museums hold 1,317 specimens collected within 10 miles of Olive Green between 1837 and 1975: 1,139 Animalia, 107 Fungi, 60 Plantae, 5 Chromista, 4 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A S BRADSHAW, A. P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan 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
Specimen of Caeoma agrimoniae Schwein.Caeoma agrimoniae Schwein.1896F. L. StevensOhio
Specimen of Hypoxylon howeianum PeckHypoxylon howeianum Peck1896A. P. Morgan
Specimen of Hypoxylon illitum (Schwein.) M.A.CurtisHypoxylon illitum (Schwein.) M.A.Curtis1896A. P. Morgan
A photograph of the species Agaricus velutipes, not of this specimenAgaricus velutipes Curtis1837J.R. Paddock
A photograph of the species Polyporus versicolor, not of this specimenPolyporus versicolor (L.) Fr.1838not recorded
A photograph of the species Equisetum arvense, not of this specimenEquisetum arvense L.1870Beardslee, H.C.Moist soil.
A photograph of the species Ophioglossum vulgatum, not of this specimenOphioglossum vulgatum L.1873Hussey, J.
A photograph of the species Sphaeria ulmea, not of this specimenSphaeria ulmea Fr.1880W. A. KellermannOhio
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimenAccipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)1882not recordedDelaware, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta decidua, not of this specimenPhyllosticta decidua Ellis & Kellerm.1882Kellerman, W. A.Ohio
unnamed1883KellermanOhio
Botryotinia fuckeliana (de Bary) Whetzel1883W. A. KellermanOhio

All 1,317 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

6 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Olive Green in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindOlive Green$10,000A roof was ripped off of a barn and multiple trees were also downed on the property.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindOlive Green$5,000Trees knocked down.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindOlive Green$5,000Trees and power lines downed.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindOlive Green$3,000A large tree was downed onto a transformer.
June 2013FloodOlive Green$1,000High water was reported at the intersection of State Route 521 and State Route 61 due to heavy rainfall.
June 2013HailOlive Green-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
East Liberty0.9 miles10
Stark Corners1.1 miles10
Kingston Center2.7 miles11
Peerless (historical)4.1 miles10
North Condit4.4 miles10
Condit4.7 miles10
Sunbury Estates5.0 miles10
South Condit5.4 miles13

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 Olive GreenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134070The 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 1065202. 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.

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.