Olivet, Wisconsin
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Spring Lake town. It lies in ZIP code area 54767. The Survey maps it on the El Paso quadrangle. It stands 1,155 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1949 USGS Baldwin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Hastings quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Hastings quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Olivet in 2019, burning about 1 acre 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 47 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 29 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Olivet: 15 past producers, 14 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Drive Shale Quarry #1 | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Lincoln Drive Shale Quarry #2 | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Cave Creek Limestone Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Eisenhower Drive Dolomite Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Elmwood Sandstone Deposit #2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Elmwood Sandstone Deposit #3 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Halverson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Hammond Hill Dolomite Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Rock Elm Sandstone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Rush River Dolomite Deposit #2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
3 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olivet in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2010: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olivet | $50,000 | Numerous trees were broken or felled, and a couple of sheds were destroyed by rear flank downdraft winds associated with the tornado that formed just south of El Paso. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Olivet | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | 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.
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 Q7087993 | 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 1570802. 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.







