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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.

Olivet within Pierce County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

1 since 2019

Regional 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 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
7 May 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources47

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lincoln Drive Shale Quarry #1ClayPast Producer
Lincoln Drive Shale Quarry #2ClayPast Producer
Cave Creek Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Eisenhower Drive Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Elmwood Sandstone Deposit #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Elmwood Sandstone Deposit #3Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Halverson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hammond Hill Dolomite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Rock Elm Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rush River Dolomite Deposit #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pierce County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010Thunderstorm WindOlivet$50,000Numerous 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 2002HailOlivet-no account filed
June 1997HailOlivet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pierce 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
Waverly4.0 miles15
Rock Elm4.0 miles13
Spring Valley4.2 miles11
El Paso4.7 miles11
Elmwood5.9 miles11
Viking7.5 miles11
Exile7.7 miles13
Martell8.0 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 Q7087993The 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.