Olive Hill is a home rule-class city[5] along Tygarts Creek in Carter County, Kentucky, in the United States.

[6] Olive Hill began as a rural trading post established by the Henderson brothers in the first part of the 19th century.

The hillside location become known as Old Olive Hill and now serves as the city's residential area.

Olive Hill retained and restored a passenger depot as well as a caboose ("John Hop Brown" Memorial Park).

[8] According to George C. Wright in his A History of Blacks in Kentucky, volume 2, "In the small community of Olive Hill in 1917, several hundred white laborers at the brick-making General Refractories Company threatened to strike unless recently employed blacks were dismissed.

Olive Hill is located in western Carter County primarily on the north side of Tygarts Creek, a tributary of the Ohio River.

[12] Olive Hill is the birthplace of country music singer and writer Tom T. Hall (The Story Teller), a fact that is noted on the "Welcome to Olive Hill" signs on the edges of town.