History · Olive

Olive’s history is
mostly unwritten

The public archives hold no old photos of Olive. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

0old images & papers
1historic places
0recent photos

The story so far

from Wikipedia & the U.S. Census

Olive Township is a civil township of Ottawa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,007 at the 2020 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 4,735 to 5,007 (+6%). Half of its homes were built before 1989.

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Olive yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.

Be one of the first

Start Olive’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Olive’s history is told.

0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Famous people from OliveWriters, athletes, leaders and more who were born in Olive.Meet them →
By decade

Olive, decade by decade

Before
2000
No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
📷 Add from your album

Then & now

When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.

Historic places

National Register · via Wikidata

From the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

The coffee’s on

Where to, neighbor?

You’re in Olive, MIOttawa CountyView boundary

Nearby

All towns & citiesExplore the map
Loading boundary…

Olive is your selected town. The feed includes posts assigned to this town, not a distance radius or ZIP code.

Neighborhoods narrow the feed further, while townwide announcements, events, and issues remain visible.

Boundary source: https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/Places_CouSub_ConCity_SubMCD/MapServer/15 · 2025-01-01