BlockAtlanta, Indiana
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46031. The Survey maps it on the Arcadia quadrangle. 712 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 863 feet above sea level.
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 3 records
Roads Hotellisted 1987
Roberts Chapellisted 1996- Micajah Walden Houselisted 2019
Population over time
2 figuresAtlanta fell from 725 to 712 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 725 | |
| 2020 | 712 | -13 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Arcadia quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1984 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
6,516 words on this townshipHistory of Hamilton County, Indiana : with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Jackson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
E.\RI,V Iin.Mis, In the early days of eiiiigralion, the liio.st direct lino between two stations was the object sought by the emigrant, and Strawtown was, perhaps, tho most noted point on the line usually traveled by emigrant trains. Here they could find the provisions to replenish their supply and last until ihcy could reach the scltlcmcnls on Wild Cat Prairie, in Tippecanoe County. The most direct route between Strawtown and the latter point w,is indicated by an Indian "truce," which in time became a well-defined road, from tlie frci[uency with which it was traveled, but its course was rambling and irregular, as the driver would often bo compelled to make a circuit in order to ovoid a iniidhole. About the year 1830, this road was surveyed by order of tho State, and was oderward known as the Newcastle and La Fayette Slate road. About the
Passage source: History of Hamilton County, Indiana : with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1880.
To supply a want long felt in tho settlement, William Taylor erected a rude mill at an early day. It was operated by two or more horses, bitched to levers in such a manner as to lurn the stones as Ihcy traveled around, grinding the wheat into a coarse flour. Like " the mills of the gods," it ground slowly, but it differed from those mythical institutions Id tho fact that it did not is'iui.'ied 10 Ihc eommuiiily, by whom they are cheerfully supported. Il!:/li - The buildin;: was erected by the Corporation Trys'
Passage source: History of Hamilton County, Indiana : with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1880.
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 Jackson Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Atlanta: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muncie Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Tipton Co. Hwy. Dept. | Stone | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atlanta in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 2 tornado, 2 hail, 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 | Tornado (F0) | Atlanta | $150,000 | An F0 tornado damaged a barn and some farm equipment as it briefly touched down near Atlanta. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | $100,000 | Thunderstorm winds produced a 2-mile path of downed trees and tree limbs, including a barn damaged near Atlanta, before a tree was snapped in Cicero. |
| November 2013 | Tornado (EF1) | Atlanta | $40,000 | At 1605EST, this EF-1 tornado touched down a half mile south-southwest of Atlanta. The tornado tracked through the town of Atlanta, producing damage to structures in town. At 1607EST, the tornado path crossed into south-central Tipton County and ended to the east of Cicero Creek, just north of the Hamilton-Tipton County line at 1608EST. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Atlanta | - | No property damage reported. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millersburg | 1.4 miles | 11 | |
| Arcadia | 2.7 miles | 11 | |
| Omega | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| Walnut Grove | 5.9 miles | 12 | |
| Cicero | 6.3 miles | 15 | |
| Strawtown | 7.7 miles | 15 | |
| Clare | 7.7 miles | 15 | |
| Deming | 7.9 miles | 15 |
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 Atlanta | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2598396 | The 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 430329. 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.
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.