Atlanta, Nebraska
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Precinct 7. It lies in ZIP code area 68923. The Survey maps it on the Atlanta quadrangle. 106 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,339 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAtlanta fell from 131 to 106 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 | 131 | |
| 2020 | 106 | -25 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1896 USGS Holdrege quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Holdrege quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Atlanta between 2010 and 2019, burning about 338 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 use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 June 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 May 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 17 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 March 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 March 2015 | Smoking | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 February 2014 | Debris and open burning | 300 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 November 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
32 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atlanta in 32 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 14 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | $500,000 | Emergency management reported a few overturned pivots, tree damage and grain bin damage in the area, including one grain bin that was blown across the road from a farmstead. A wind gust of 78 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles south-southwest of Holdrege and a wind gust of 60 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles south of Holdrege. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Atlanta | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Atlanta | $75,000 | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | $75,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Flood | Atlanta | $50,000 | Storm total rainfall totals reaching as high as 3 to 6 inches resulted in flooding across portions of the county. Street flooding was reported in Holdrege, and a number of county roads in central and northern portions of the county were covered with water. Some road closures lasted well into the day on May 25th. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Atlanta | $40,000 | A brief tornado touched down near G Road just west of Atlanta. Damage rated as EF1 occurred at this location, primarily to the roof of a home. Resident witnessed the circulation move northeast into an adjacent field. Damage and debris ceased about one-half mile northeast, just south of 728 Road. The estimated peak wind was 100 MPH. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Atlanta | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Atlanta | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Atlanta | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Atlanta | $4,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Atlanta | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | - | A wind gust of 61 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located six miles west-northwest of Atlanta. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | - | A wind gust of 63 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located six miles west-northwest of Atlanta. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | - | A 61 MPH wind gust was recorded by a mesonet station located 2 miles north of Atlanta. Gust was associated with a dissipating thunderstorm. |
| October 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | - | A grain storage building on the south side of Atlanta lost half of its roof. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | - | Wind gust estimated at 60 mph. |
| May 2008 | Heavy Rain | Atlanta | - | Thunderstorms dropped several inches of rain over the Atlanta, Nebraska area. This caused several streets in the village to become flooded. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| October 2011 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Atlanta | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | 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.
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 Q2121266 | 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 827110. 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.





