Mount Olive, North Carolina
Mount Olive, North Carolina Mount Olive is positioned in North Carolina Mount Olive - Mount Olive Location inside the state of North Carolina Mount Olive is a town in Duplin and Wayne counties in the U.S.
Olive Pickle Company and the University of Mount Olive.
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Mount Olive is positioned in southern Wayne County at 35 11 42 N 78 4 3 W (35.195086, -78.067528). A small portion of the town extends south into Duplin County.
Route 117, a four-lane highway, runs along the edge of Mount Olive, dominant north 14 miles (23 km) to Goldsboro and south 15 miles (24 km) to Warsaw.
North Carolina Highway 55, which crosses US 117 at the north end of town, leads east 31 miles (50 km) to Kinston and west 17 miles (27 km) to Newton Grove.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town of Mount Olive has a total region of 2.7 square miles (6.9 km2), all land. Mount Olive is part of the Atlantic coastal plain region.
Between 2010 and 2012, as many as 3,000 Haitians, from toddlers to grandmothers, have settled in and around Mount Olive.
The newcomers' lure: the Butterball turkey refining plant and a handful of other meat producers inside commuting distance of Mount Olive.
Jim Johnson, a professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said the new wave of Haitians in Eastern North Carolina is the classic immigrant workforce story.
The annual celebration is put on by both the improve of Mount Olive and the Mt.
Olive Pickle Company jubilates in unusual fashion by dropping a three-foot pickle down a flagpole into a pickle tank.
Mount Olive is part of the Atlantic coastal plain. Education in Mount Olive is administered by the Wayne County Public School system.
Schools positioned in the town include Carver Elementary School and Mount Olive Middle School.
Higher education is offered through Wayne Community College in Goldsboro and the private, liberal arts institution University of Mount Olive.
Air: Mount Olive is served through Mount Olive Municipal Airport for corporate and general aviation airplane and close-by Kinston Regional Jetport (IATA: ISO, ICAO: KISO) with service to Orlando, Florida.
Interstate Highway: I-40 is the closest Interstate to Mount Olive, which is positioned 9 miles south near Faison.
Mount Olive is not served directly by passenger trains.
The chief highways in Mount Olive are US 117 and NC 55.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Mount Olive town, North Carolina".
North Carolina Pickle Festival - Mount Olive, NC Town of Mount Olive official website Mount Olive Area Chamber of Commerce Mount Olive Tribune, small-town journal University of Mount Olive Municipalities and communities of Duplin County, North Carolina, United States Municipalities and communities of Wayne County, North Carolina, United States
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