Olive Branch Quick Info
The population of Olive Branch is 32,000, and is located in Desoto County, Mississippi with a poplulation of 144,706. The median age is 34.4 and the average household income is $60,851. The climate has an average temperature of 72.5. The normal high temperature for July is 92.3 and very humid.
The 135 acre Olive Branch City Park offers lakes, tennis courts, walking trails, and picnic areas. State parks in the area with larger lakes, camping, and boating within an hour's drive are: Wall Doxey in Holly Springs, Sardis Lake in Sardis, and Arkabulta Lake in Hernando. There are also parks in Memphis, including Shelby Forest and Tom Lee Park on Riverside Drive - the home of Memphis in May.
There are several museums and other attractions in the Memphis area such as the Pink Palace Museum, Elvis Presley's Graceland, Redbird's baseball in Autozone Park, the Ornamental metal Museum and the Civil Rights Museum. For more tourist information on Memphis, visit www.memphistravel.com.
DeSoto county businesses benefit from the proximity of tourist attractions in Memphis, such as Graceland and Beale Street, America's blues highway - a corridor famous for many blues-related historical sites-runs from Memphis to Clarksdale, Mississippi, passing through DeSoto County. Tunica (just south of DeSoto County) now ranks as the third-largest gaming destination in the United States.
The 10,000 seat DeSoto Civic Center, home to the Memphis River Kings (ice hockey) and the Memphis Xplorers (arena football), is located on Interstate 55 and Church Road. The civic center has increased tourism and convention business throughout the county.