Olivet, South Dakota
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Olivet town. It lies in ZIP code area 57052. It stands on South Branch Lonetree Creek. The Survey maps it on the Scotland quadrangle. 64 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,220 feet above sea level.
On record in Olivet
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 1 record
- Kost Farm Barnlisted 2003
Population over time
2 figuresOlivet fell from 74 to 64 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 74 | |
| 2020 | 64 | -10 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 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.
- 1898 USGS Olivet quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Scotland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Freeman quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
23 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Olivet between 2009 and 2018, burning about 242 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | COUNTY RD |
| 19 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | MAXWELL |
| 29 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DAN ULMER |
| 13 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DITCH |
| 11 August 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 25 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HUTCHINSON COUNTY |
| 10 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | PRESZLER |
| 5 June 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | ULMER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Olivet: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olivet in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olivet | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down branches and power lines, causing a power outage. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Olivet | - | Hail varied from nickel to quarter size. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olivet | - | Significant tree damage throughout the town of Olivet. A gas line was damaged by falling limbs which required evacuation of residents over a two block area for several hours during the morning. |
| September 2018 | Flash Flood | Olivet | - | Water was flowing across numerous roads south and east of Olivet. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olivet | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. |
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olivet | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous branches blown down. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Olivet | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olivet | - | Thunderstorm winds caused crop damage, including sunflower fields flattened. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Olivet | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Olivet | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Olivet | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olivet | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Olivet | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olivet | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maxwell Colony | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Menno | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| Wolf Creek | 7.9 miles | 11 | |
| Tschetter Colony | 8.9 miles | 11 | |
| Kaylor | 9.4 miles | 11 | |
| Clayton | 14.0 miles | 12 | |
| Milltown | 14.3 miles | 11 | |
| Freeman | 14.8 miles | 11 |
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 Olivet | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2400868 | 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 1256880. 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.




