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Olive City

Ghost town · La Paz County, Arizona

Blythe quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1951, 1:24,000)
Blythe quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1951, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Olive City is a ghost town in La Paz County, Arizona. It is one of 7 former communities in La Paz County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 9th among the 15 Arizona counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Olive City as a historical populated place on the Blythe 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 33.6111° N, 114.5258° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleBlythe
Elevation259 ft
Nearest living townEhrenberg, AZ
Distance to it2.5 miles
GNIS feature ID42818
Coordinates33.61114, -114.52579

Open the location on a map

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.

Olive City today, aerial view
Blythe quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1951, 1:24,000)

Left: Blythe quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1951, 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

Olive City is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Ehrenberg, AZ (population 946), about 2.5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 259 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 Olive City?

Olive City is in La Paz County, Arizona, at 33.6111, -114.5258.

How many ghost towns are in La Paz County?

La Paz County, Arizona has 7 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

Sources and licences

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.