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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.

Atlanta within Phelps County

Population over time

2 figures

Atlanta 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.

YearPeople Change
2010131
2020106-25 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

9 since 2010

Regional 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 use3
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1

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
26 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 May 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 March 2016Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 March 2015Smoking10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 February 2014Debris and open burning300 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 November 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phelps County

Storms near this place

32 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$500,000Emergency 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 2019Flash FloodAtlanta$100,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$100,000no account filed
June 2014HailAtlanta$75,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$75,000no account filed
May 2011FloodAtlanta$50,000Storm 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 2024Tornado (EF1)Atlanta$40,000A 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 2001Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$20,000no account filed
July 2004HailAtlanta$10,000no account filed
July 2003HailAtlanta$10,000no account filed
June 2002HailAtlanta$5,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$5,000no account filed
May 1999HailAtlanta$4,000no account filed
May 1999HailAtlanta$2,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-A wind gust of 61 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located six miles west-northwest of Atlanta.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-A wind gust of 63 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located six miles west-northwest of Atlanta.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-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 2011Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-A grain storage building on the south side of Atlanta lost half of its roof.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-Wind gust estimated at 60 mph.
May 2008Heavy RainAtlanta-Thunderstorms dropped several inches of rain over the Atlanta, Nebraska area. This caused several streets in the village to become flooded.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-no account filed
April 2016HailAtlanta-no account filed
July 2016HailAtlanta-no account filed
April 2012HailAtlanta-no account filed
October 2011HailAtlanta-no account filed
June 2010HailAtlanta-no account filed
June 2009HailAtlanta-no account filed
May 2005HailAtlanta-no account filed
June 2002HailAtlanta-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Phelps 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
Clyde4.3 miles13
Holdrege7.5 miles13
Loomis7.9 miles13
Sacramento10.9 miles13
Funk13.6 miles13
Bertrand13.9 miles16
Westmark16.2 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 Q2121266The 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.