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Atlanta, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Omnia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67008. The Survey maps it on the Atlanta quadrangle. 168 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,434 feet above sea level.

Atlanta within Cowley County

Population over time

2 figures

Atlanta fell from 195 to 168 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.

YearPeople Change
2010195
2020168-27 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

22 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Atlanta between 2015 and 2020, burning about 297 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
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7

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
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service48
9 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKansas Forest Service59
11 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service41
29 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use10 acresCowley County60
28 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCowley County59
25 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCowley County54
18 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use20 acresCowley County53
14 July 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service36

Every fire recorded in Cowley County

Storms near this place

60 of 79 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atlanta in 79 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 46 hail, 22 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 tornado. 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
June 1996Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$15,000no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$10,000Some power lines were downed.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$10,000Power lines downed, severing power to Atlanta.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$5,000One power pole was knocked down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$1,000Power pole snapped 2 miles north of Atlanta.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$1,000Windows blown out of vehicle.
April 1994HailAtlanta$500no account filed
May 2019FloodAtlanta$100Two hundred and eleventh road was impassible from high water.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-Tree limbs with a diameter of 3 inches were across the roadway. Time was estimated based on radar.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-A trained spotter reported the gust.
June 2022Heavy RainAtlanta-A Cocorahs observer in 9 miles northeast of Winfield reported 1.28 inches of rainfall in 24 hours.
June 2022Heavy RainAtlanta-A mesonet station in Atlanta reported 1.55 inches of rainfall in 24 hours.
April 2020HailAtlanta-Dime to quarter sized hail reported near Atlanta.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-There were no reports of damage.
May 2018HailAtlanta-Delayed report from social media. One half inch hail fell for about 3 or 4 minutes before changing to one inch hail or slightly larger for a brief time.
May 2018HailAtlanta-Fifty mile an hour winds were also reported.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-Reported by the Emergency Manager.
May 2016HailAtlanta-Fifty five mph winds were also reported.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-Trained spotters reported the estimated wind gust.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-Occurred with 1 inch hail. No damage reported.
September 2012HailAtlanta-Estimated 65 MPH winds were also reported.
September 2012HailAtlanta-Hail slightly larger than quarter sized was reported 3 miles west of Atlanta.
September 2012HailAtlanta-Hail slightly larger than quarters was now reported a couple miles north of Atlanta.
July 2012HailAtlanta-No details provided.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-Measured wind gust reported by the Fire Chief.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-A power pole was blown down.
September 2009Heavy RainAtlanta-Cooperative observer reported 3.75 inches of rainfall.
June 2005Flash FloodAtlanta-Rock Creek overflowed.
March 2004Flash FloodAtlanta-One mile segment of 32nd Road underwater from 2.5 to 3.5 miles east of Altanta.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Atlanta-Tornado touched down in open country.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Atlanta-Tornado touched down in open country.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-Trees with 4-5 inch diameter trunks uprooted. In addition, one storm spotter had windows blown out of his truck, with the vehicle subsequently spun around.
June 2002Flash FloodAtlanta-32nd Street barricaded.
June 2002Tornado (F0)Atlanta-Remained in the country.
May 2002Flash FloodAtlanta-Around 6 inches of rain caused flash flooding.
April 2026HailAtlanta-no account filed
April 2020HailAtlanta-no account filed
March 2017HailAtlanta-no account filed
August 2017HailAtlanta-no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-no account filed
October 2016HailAtlanta-no account filed
April 2014HailAtlanta-no account filed
April 2014HailAtlanta-no account filed
April 2014HailAtlanta-no account filed
April 2014HailAtlanta-no account filed
April 2014HailAtlanta-no account filed
May 2014HailAtlanta-no account filed
June 2011HailAtlanta-no account filed
June 2011HailAtlanta-no account filed
April 2011HailAtlanta-no account filed
April 2011HailAtlanta-no account filed
May 2009HailAtlanta-no account filed
May 2009HailAtlanta-no account filed
May 2009HailAtlanta-no account filed
May 2008HailAtlanta-no account filed
May 2007HailAtlanta-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-no account filed
May 2005HailAtlanta-no account filed
May 2005HailAtlanta-no account filed
June 2005HailAtlanta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cowley 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
Wilmot7.2 miles14
Glen Crouse7.8 miles13
Burden8.5 miles15
Cambridge9.9 miles13
Glen Grouse (historical)9.9 miles13
Floral10.1 miles14
New Salem11.1 miles14
Grand Summit12.5 miles14

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 Q1863158The 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 470029. 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.

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.