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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.

Olivet within Hutchinson County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Olivet 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.

YearPeople Change
201074
202064-10 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

23 since 2009

Regional 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/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1

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
19 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCOUNTY RD
19 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMAXWELL
29 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDAN ULMER
13 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDITCH
11 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
25 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHUTCHINSON COUNTY
10 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionPRESZLER
5 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionULMER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hutchinson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brown Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hutchinson County

Storms near this place

14 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011Thunderstorm WindOlivet$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down branches and power lines, causing a power outage.
June 2025HailOlivet-Hail varied from nickel to quarter size.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindOlivet-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 2018Flash FloodOlivet-Water was flowing across numerous roads south and east of Olivet.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindOlivet-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindOlivet-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous branches blown down.
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Olivet-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindOlivet-Thunderstorm winds caused crop damage, including sunflower fields flattened.
April 2026HailOlivet-no account filed
August 2017HailOlivet-no account filed
May 2011HailOlivet-no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindOlivet-no account filed
August 2002HailOlivet-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindOlivet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hutchinson 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
Maxwell Colony4.6 miles12
Menno5.2 miles11
Wolf Creek7.9 miles11
Tschetter Colony8.9 miles11
Kaylor9.4 miles11
Clayton14.0 miles12
Milltown14.3 miles11
Freeman14.8 miles11

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 OlivetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2400868The 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.