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Atlanta, Delaware

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Bridgeville-Greenwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19933. The Survey maps it on the Seaford West quadrangle. It stands 49 feet above sea level.

Atlanta within Sussex County

On record in Atlanta

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

29 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Atlanta between 2005 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use4.5 acresMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2005Natural28 acresBlackwater National Wildlife RefugeGUARD
2 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest ServiceHRYNKO ROAD
22 August 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMaryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Atlanta: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Smithville BankIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sussex County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atlanta in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2020Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-A tree was downed onto wires near the intersection of Federalsburg Rd and Hartzell Rd. Time estimated from radar.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sussex County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Clarksons Crossroads1.4 miles19
Briar Hook2.0 miles19
Jacobs Crossroads2.4 miles19
Richard Heights3.1 miles19
Ricland Heights3.2 miles19
Dublin Hill3.3 miles19
Cannon3.4 miles19
Oak Grove3.6 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on AtlantaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4815967The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216021. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.