[11] After the modernisation of transport which travelled between Adelaide and Broken Hill the village population declined.

However it still has a hotel and general store to cater for the transient road and railway workers and travellers.

[12] The Flinders-Olary NatureLink includes the mountainous Flinders and Olary Ranges together with the connecting plains country to cover 6% of the South Australian state.

[14] The nearby Mount Victoria Well & Whim Historic Site is listed on the South Australian Heritage Register.

[15] Olary is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Stuart and the Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia.