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Aten, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 2. It lies in ZIP code area 68730. The Survey maps it on the Gavins Point Dam quadrangle. 134 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,204 feet above sea level.

Aten within Cedar County

Population over time

2 figures

Aten grew from 112 to 134 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
2010112
2020134+22 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

30 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Aten between 1999 and 2017, burning about 94 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning7
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
2 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWINTER FIRE
4 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTURMAN FIRE
3 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBINDER RIDGE
22 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBELFAST STREET FIRE
2 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDRIVEWAY FIRE
2 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWEST 23 STREET
17 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTRAIL FIRE
13 July 2007Fireworks1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cedar County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Aten: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Western Portland Cement Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Crosley Sand & Gravel Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Yankton Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cedar County

Storms near this place

7 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aten in 7 storm reports between 2010 and 2015: 4 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2011FloodAten$20,000Flooding along the Missouri River gradually worsened over the area during June and continued through July as record releases from Gavins Point Dam brought lowland flooding along the River. In Cedar county the flooding generally began during the first week of the June as flows out of Gavins Point Dam reached and exceeded 100,000 cfs. The flooding grew worse as the discharge reached 160,000 cfs by the end of June and these high releases continued through July before moderating a bit. A few seasonal or permanent homes were threatened by the flood waters, but in general the flooding was confined to low areas and farmland along the river. The flooding continued into August.
June 2011FloodAten$15,000Flooding along the Missouri River gradually worsened over the area during June as record releases from Gavins Point Dam brought areas of lowland flooding along the river. In Cedar county the flooding generally began during the first week of the month as flows out of Gavins Point Dam reached and exceeded 100,000 cfs on the way to 160,00 cfs. A few seasonal or permanent homes were threatened by the flood waters, but in general the flooding was confined to low areas and farmland along the river. The flooding continued into July.
August 2011FloodAten$5,000Flooding along the Missouri River gradually worsened over the area during June and July and continued into August before improving by the end of that month as record releases from Gavins Point Dam brought lowland flooding along the River. In Cedar county the flooding generally began during the first week of the June as flows out of Gavins Point Dam reached and exceeded 100,000 cfs. The flooding grew worse as the discharge reached 160,000 cfs by the end of June and these high releases continued into early August before moderating, especially by the end of the month. A few seasonal or permanent homes were threatened by the flood waters, but in general the flooding was confined to low areas and farmland along the river. The flooding continued into September.
September 2011FloodAten$1,000Flooding along the Missouri River, which had gradually worsened over the area during June and July, started improving in August and basically ended by mid September. The flooding was caused by record releases out of Gavins Point Dam which reached around 160,000 cfs by the end of June. These releases were cut way back in late August and even more by mid September due to decreased inflows into the river system. A few seasonal or permanent homes were threatened by the flood waters, but in general the flooding was confined to low areas and farmland along the river.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindAten-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed some very large trees in the Tailwaters campground.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindAten-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 70 mph downed numerous trees and broke large limbs in the Nebraska Tailwaters campground just southeast of Gavins Point Dam.
September 2015HailAten-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cedar 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
South Yankton2.3 miles10
Menominee5.1 miles10
Constance9.2 miles9
Saint Helena10.4 miles10
Fordyce10.6 miles9
Bow Valley13.3 miles9
Bow Valley Mills15.5 miles10
Pleasant Valley15.7 miles9

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 AtenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5710533The 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 827100. 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.