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Mount Olive

Ghost town · Barbour County, Alabama

Clayton North quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1968, 1:24,000)
Clayton North quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1968, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Mount Olive is a ghost town in Barbour County, Alabama. It is one of 12 former communities in Barbour County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 14th among the 53 Alabama counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Mount Olive as a historical populated place on the Clayton North topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 31.9324° N, 85.4222° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleClayton North
Elevation554 ft
Nearest living townClayton, AL
Distance to it4.1 miles
GNIS feature ID134807
Coordinates31.93238, -85.42216

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Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Mount Olive today, aerial view
Clayton North quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1968, 1:24,000)

Left: Clayton North quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1968, 1:24,000), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Mount Olive is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Clayton, AL (population 2,271), about 4.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 554 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Mount Olive?

Mount Olive is in Barbour County, Alabama, at 31.9324, -85.4222.

How many ghost towns are in Barbour County?

Barbour County, Alabama has 12 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-05.