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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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Atlanta within Montmorency County

Population over time

3 figures

Atlanta 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.

YearPeople Change
2000757
2010827+70 (+9%)
2020720-107 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

78 since 1992

Regional 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 burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONTMORENCY 15
1 August 2003Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2012Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONTMORENCY 14 - FOOTBALL
2 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTRI-TOWNSHIP FD 0000038 - 2018
13 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONTMORENCY 13

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montmorency County

Storms near this place

43 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2013Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$22,000Over forty trees were downed in Clear Lake State Park.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$20,000A 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 2006Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$15,000Quarter-mile stretch of trees downed near M-33. Roof damage to one home.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$10,000Widespread tree damage across Montmorency county per law enforcement.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$9,000Trees and power lines were downed between Lewiston and Atlanta.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$7,000A 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 2013Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$6,000Numerous trees were downed in the Atlanta area.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$6,000Numerous power lines and trees were knocked down.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$4,000Trees were downed, blocking County Road 625 just east of M-33.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$4,000Several trees were downed.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$4,000Trees and power lines downed.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$4,000Several trees downed in western Montmorency County.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$3,000Four large trees were uprooted in Atlanta.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$2,000Scattered tree damage, including a few downed trees, occurred in the Atlanta area.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$1,000Power lines were downed by wind.
April 2025HailAtlanta-Spotter reported penny size hail lasting for approximately a minute near Atlanta, MI.
June 2008HailAtlanta-Quarter sized hail fell at Clear Lake State Park.
June 2006HailAtlanta-A few strong storms developed ahead of an upper level disturbance. The strongest storm produced penny sized hail in Montmorency County.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-Trees down.
May 1998Tornado (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 1998Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-Strong thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and powerlines.
July 1995HailAtlanta-A spotter reported one-inch-diameter hail.
July 1995HailAtlanta-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 2021HailAtlanta-no account filed
June 2021HailAtlanta-no account filed
August 2020HailAtlanta-no account filed
July 2016HailAtlanta-no account filed
May 2011HailAtlanta-no account filed
June 2011HailAtlanta-no account filed
June 2006HailAtlanta-no account filed
June 2005HailAtlanta-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-no account filed
June 2000HailAtlanta-no account filed
July 2000HailAtlanta-no account filed
May 1998HailAtlanta-no account filed
May 1998HailAtlanta-no account filed
May 1998HailAtlanta-no account filed
July 1997HailAtlanta-no account filed
July 1996HailAtlanta-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-no account filed
May 1996HailAtlanta-no account filed
April 1995HailAtlanta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montmorency 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
Avery6.8 miles12
Bigelow7.2 miles16
Donnelly9.0 miles16
Rust10.4 miles8
Lewiston12.0 miles16
Hetherton12.0 miles13
Canada Creek Ranch12.0 miles12
Vienna Junction12.9 miles16

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 Q2316365The 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.