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Mount Olive

Ghost town · Rutherford County, Tennessee

Murfreesboro quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1916, 1:62,500)
Murfreesboro quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1916, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Mount Olive is a ghost town in Rutherford County, Tennessee. It is one of 7 former communities in Rutherford County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 40th among the 86 Tennessee counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Mount Olive as a historical populated place on the Murfreesboro 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 35.8723° N, 86.4305° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleMurfreesboro
Elevation566 ft
Nearest living townMurfreesboro, TN
Distance to it1.4 miles
GNIS feature ID1647690
Coordinates35.87229, -86.43055

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What's there now

Mount Olive is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Murfreesboro, TN (population 157,547), about 1.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 566 feet above sea level. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

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Questions

Where is Mount Olive?

Mount Olive is in Rutherford County, Tennessee, at 35.8723, -86.4305.

How many ghost towns are in Rutherford County?

Rutherford County, Tennessee has 7 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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