Olanta South Carolina Map
Olanta, South Carolina — interactive Google street map, satellite and terrain views, Street View, live National Weather Service conditions and 7-day forecasts, real-time local and world news, and an editorial description of Olanta, Florence County.
Interactive Map of Olanta, South Carolina
| City | Olanta |
| State | South Carolina (SC) |
| County | Florence |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 33.935438 |
| Longitude | -79.93257 |
| Population | 806 |
| Density | 269.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
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.
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About This Olanta Map Page
This page provides an interactive Google map of Olanta, South Carolina with street, satellite and terrain views and integrated Street View imagery. 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. Coordinates and population data are also included.
Location data for Olanta is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity, not name matching alone — ensuring the correct Olanta is identified even where the name is shared across multiple counties or states.
| Page generated | June 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. Location verified by proximity — not name matching alone. |
