Olive Green, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sharon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43724. It stands on Browns Knob. The Survey maps it on the Caldwell South quadrangle.
Then and now
1909 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
13 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.
- 1909 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Caldwell South quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Caldwell South quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Caldwell South quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Caldwell South quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
15 since 2009The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Olive Green between 2009 and 2019, burning about 42 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15265 |
| 28 May 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4965 |
| 18 April 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 25 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4728 |
| 14 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 April 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14385 |
| 25 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7531 |
| 18 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14705 |
| 18 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 91 shownMuseums hold 91 specimens collected within 10 miles of Olive Green between 1902 and 1974: 59 Animalia, 29 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M., Adler, K. K., Tilley, S. G. & Wood 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Daedalea ambigua Berk. | 1902 | Lloyd C. G. | Glenwood |
![]() | Erysiphe polygoni DC. | 1912 | E. Bartholomew | Caldwell |
![]() | Bufo americanus Holbrook, 1836 | 1929 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio |
![]() | Bufo fowleri Hinckley, 1882 | 1929 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio |
![]() | Micropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township |
![]() | Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township |
![]() | Notropis volucellus (Cope, 1865) | 1929 | MB Trautman & ass't. | Olive Green Creek, trib. of the Muskingum River, Southern Center Twp. |
![]() | Opsopoeodus emiliae Hay, 1881 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township |
![]() | Percina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township |
![]() | Percina maculata (Girard, 1859) | 1929 | MB Trautman & ass't. | Olive Green Creek, trib. of the Muskingum River, Southern Center Twp. |
![]() | Percopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township |
![]() | Pimephales vigilax (Baird & Girard, 1853) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township |
All 91 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
1 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Olive Green: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ava Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoskinsville | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Sharon | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Renrock (historical) | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Slaters | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Scott (historical) | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Belle Valley | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Rich Valley | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Florence | 4.5 miles | 13 |
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 Green | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22134071 | 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 1065201. 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.
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.
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.
























