Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Olive Hill, KY

Olive Hill is a home rule-class city in western Carter County, Kentucky, set along Tygarts Creek, a tributary of the Ohio River, and its motto is "A nice place to call home."

The community began in the early 1800s as a rural trading post established by the Henderson brothers.

In 1881 the town moved from its original hillside site down into the Tygarts Creek valley to sit beside the Elizabethtown, Lexington, and Big Sandy Railroad, and the old site became known as Old Olive Hill.

Olive Hill was incorporated as a city on March 24, 1884.

For about eleven weeks in 1904, from February 9 to April 29, Olive Hill served as the county seat of the short-lived Beckham County.

The 2020 census counted 1,580 residents in Olive Hill, living in 737 households.

Olive Hill's population peaked at 2,539 in the 1980 census; the 2000 census recorded 1,813 residents in 791 households.

Olive Hill is the birthplace of country music singer and songwriter Tom T. Hall, known as "The Storyteller," a fact noted on the welcome signs at the edge of town.

After the railroad tracks through town were removed in the mid-1980s, Olive Hill preserved and restored its passenger depot and a caboose at John "Hop" Brown Memorial Park.

Public schools in Olive Hill are run by the Carter County School District, which operates Olive Hill Elementary School, West Carter Middle School, and West Carter High School.