Olanta South Carolina Map

About Olanta, South Carolina

Olanta is a locality in Florence County, South Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 806. The population density is 269.5 people per km². Olanta is located at 33.9354°N, 79.9326°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 29114.

Olanta sits in a landscape where the earth breathes a humid sigh, a place of low, flat terrain where the sky feels vast and often a hazy, luminous dome. It lies 20.4 miles south-south-west of Florence, SC (from Florence, SC: bearing 208°T), and is situated 5.8 miles east-north-east of Turbeville. Pines, their needles a muted green against the often pale blue, stand sentinel over fields of cotton and corn, their white bolls or golden tassels stretching towards the horizon. The air here carries the scent of damp soil after a summer shower and the faint, sweet perfume of blooming honeysuckle that drapes itself over weathered fences. Sunlight, when it breaks through the haze, falls in broad, warm swathes, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the quiet air of the unpaved roads that thread through the scattered homesteads and small clusters of buildings that make up Olanta. The history of Olanta is etched not in grand monuments but in the slow, steady rhythm of agriculture that has long been its heartbeat, a legacy of generations working this fertile, sandy loam. For decades, cotton was king, its white harvest a familiar sight against the green fields, and though the landscape has diversified, farming remains the bedrock of the local economy, with corn and soybeans now sharing the fertile ground. The Pecan is also a significant crop, its trees dotting the landscape and offering a more recent chapter to the agricultural story of Olanta. Life here unfolds with a quiet persistence, a testament to the enduring spirit of a community shaped by the land and the seasons, where the occasional rumble of a passing train is often the loudest sound to break the afternoon stillness.

About This Olanta Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Olanta, South Carolina — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 33.935438, -79.93257. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service, with current observations and a 7-day forecast also powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while a Wikipedia summary or an editorially written description provides background on Olanta and Florence County.

Detailed location data for Olanta includes the ZIP code (29114), telephone area code (803), county seat of Florence County (Florence), and school district assignment (Florence School District 3). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any US city or town.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity — ensuring the correct Olanta is identified even where the name is shared across multiple counties or states. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.