THE MOUNT OLIVE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Shale Hills setting.
Mount Olive CDP has 9.3 square miles of land in Jefferson County. Its Census reference point is in Shale Hills, within Southwestern Appalachians.
Open low mountains and plateau edges form a landscape of wooded uplands and deeper ravines. Escarpments mark the transition toward both the Ridge and Valley and the Interior Plateau.
Regional context: Southwestern Appalachians ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Mount Olive and Jefferson County
Mount Olive is associated with Jefferson County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Mount Olive by land and water
The Census records <0.01 square miles of water within Mount Olive, or 0.1% of its total area. It is 1.1 percentage points lower than the 1.1% recorded for Jefferson County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Mount Olive CDP has 1.4 times the land area of nearby Brookside town (6.64 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

