Atlanta, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Briley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49709. It stands on Haymeadow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Atlanta quadrangle. 720 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 892 feet above sea level.
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Population over time
3 figuresAtlanta fell from 757 to 720 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 757 | |
| 2010 | 827 | +70 (+9%) |
| 2020 | 720 | -107 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 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.
- 1955 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Petoskey quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
78 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Atlanta between 1992 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 were 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 | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MONTMORENCY 15 |
| 1 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 July 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 July 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | 7.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MONTMORENCY 14 - FOOTBALL |
| 2 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | TRI-TOWNSHIP FD 0000038 - 2018 |
| 13 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MONTMORENCY 13 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
43 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atlanta in 43 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 22 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | $22,000 | Over forty trees were downed in Clear Lake State Park. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | $20,000 | A few trees and several large limbs were downed. One home was damaged by a falling tree. The storm also produced half-inch diameter hail. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | $15,000 | Quarter-mile stretch of trees downed near M-33. Roof damage to one home. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | $10,000 | Widespread tree damage across Montmorency county per law enforcement. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | $9,000 | Trees and power lines were downed between Lewiston and Atlanta. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | $7,000 | A 71 mph wind gust was measured by USFS equipment near Clear Lake State Park. Trees were downed on Ellison Road and near Canada Creek Ranch. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | $6,000 | Numerous trees were downed in the Atlanta area. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | $6,000 | Numerous power lines and trees were knocked down. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | $4,000 | Trees were downed, blocking County Road 625 just east of M-33. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | $4,000 | Several trees were downed. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | $4,000 | Trees and power lines downed. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | $4,000 | Several trees downed in western Montmorency County. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | $3,000 | Four large trees were uprooted in Atlanta. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | $2,000 | Scattered tree damage, including a few downed trees, occurred in the Atlanta area. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | $1,000 | Power lines were downed by wind. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Atlanta | - | Spotter reported penny size hail lasting for approximately a minute near Atlanta, MI. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Atlanta | - | Quarter sized hail fell at Clear Lake State Park. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Atlanta | - | A few strong storms developed ahead of an upper level disturbance. The strongest storm produced penny sized hail in Montmorency County. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | - | Trees down. |
| May 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Atlanta | - | The brief tornado touchdown occurred in association with a supercell which developed when easterly winds associated with an outflow boundary from earlier storms interacted with westerly synoptic scale winds. The tornado briefly touched down then quickly lifted back up and was nearly stationary while on the ground. The tornado did no damage. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | - | Strong thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and powerlines. |
| July 1995 | Hail | Atlanta | - | A spotter reported one-inch-diameter hail. |
| July 1995 | Hail | Atlanta | - | A spotter reported hail one-inch-diameter, along with wind gusts to 60 mph which downed power lines. A possible funnel cloud was also reported. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avery | 6.8 miles | 12 | |
| Bigelow | 7.2 miles | 16 | |
| Donnelly | 9.0 miles | 16 | |
| Rust | 10.4 miles | 8 | |
| Lewiston | 12.0 miles | 16 | |
| Hetherton | 12.0 miles | 13 | |
| Canada Creek Ranch | 12.0 miles | 12 | |
| Vienna Junction | 12.9 miles | 16 |
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 Q2316365 | 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 620305. 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.




