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Mount Olivet

Ghost town · Crittenden County, Kentucky

Providence quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1909, 1:62,500)
Providence quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1909, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Mount Olivet is a ghost town in Crittenden County, Kentucky. It is one of 23 former communities in Crittenden County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 18th among the 101 Kentucky counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Mount Olivet as a historical populated place on the Providence 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 37.4108° N, 87.8534° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleProvidence
Elevation371 ft
Nearest living townClay, KY
Distance to it4.8 miles
GNIS feature ID2743696
Coordinates37.41080, -87.85342

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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 Olivet today, aerial view
Providence quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1909, 1:62,500)

Left: Providence quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1909, 1:62,500), 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 Olivet is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Clay, KY (population 1,112), about 4.8 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 371 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 Olivet?

Mount Olivet is in Crittenden County, Kentucky, at 37.4108, -87.8534.

How many ghost towns are in Crittenden County?

Crittenden County, Kentucky has 23 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 2026-11-06.