Atlas, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Atlas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62370. It stands on Ambrosia Creek. The Survey maps it on the Summer Hill quadrangle.

Atlas within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1926 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Summer Hill quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

66 words on this township

History of Pike County. A Centennial Address Delivered by Hon. William A. Grimshaw, at Pittsfield, Pike County, Illinois, July 4, 1876, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on Atlas Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In the vicinity of Atlas Henry Long, from Baltimore City, settled about the year 1827. During a residence of many years, until his decease on his farm, he was a useful citizen and upright man. He reared a second numerous family of intelligent and educated children. His son, Jesse Long, has been a Supervisor of Atlas township and resides on the old homestead of his father.

Passage source: History of Pike County. A Centennial Address Delivered by Hon. William A. Grimshaw, at Pittsfield, Pike County, Illinois, July 4, 1876, published 1877.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Atlas Township.

Fires near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Atlas between 2013 and 2014, burning about 23 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning	2

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
13 March 2013	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	130018
11 March 2014	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	140041

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Atlas: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Barry Plant No. 6, Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	New Hartford Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atlas in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Atlas	-	A microburst downed several large trees near Atlas.

Every storm recorded in Pike 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Moores (historical)	2.5 miles	19
Rockport	2.7 miles	14
Summer Hill	3.5 miles	11
Pike	5.1 miles	19
Quincy Junction	5.2 miles	19
New Hartford	5.3 miles	11
Horton	5.6 miles	14
Taylor	6.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422420. 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.