Mount Olivet is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Robertson County, Kentucky, United States,[4] located at the junction of U.S. Route 62 and Kentucky Route 165.

The town was subsequently dissolved, then reincorporated on March 18, 1871, by an act of the Kentucky General Assembly.

[1] The 1871 act of incorporation established the town's boundary as a perfect circle centered on the intersection of Main and Walnut streets with a radius of 120 poles (1,980 ft; 604 m).

[6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.4 square miles (1.0 km2), all of it land.

38.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 21.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

About 38.4% of families and 37.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 56.1% of those under the age of eighteen and 23.2% of those 65 or over.