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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Atlanta, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43145. The Survey maps it on the Clarksburg quadrangle.

Atlanta within Pickaway County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Atlanta, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Atlanta, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Photographs

2 photographs, 1938 to 1939

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Railroad station. Atlanta, Ohio
Railroad station. Atlanta, Ohio
Rothstein, Arthur, 1939. Library of Congress
Railroad station. Atlanta, Ohio
Railroad station. Atlanta, Ohio
Rothstein, Arthur, 1938. Library of Congress

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 672 shown

Museums hold 672 specimens collected within 10 miles of Atlanta between 1898 and 1975: 658 Animalia, 14 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer & W. LeGrande, Abbott, R; and others, Abbott, R; vonder Heyden, Jonna and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Berosus peregrinus, not of this specimenBerosus peregrinus (Herbst, 1797)1898Scott O'Dee
A photograph of the species Stenelmis sexlineata, not of this specimenStenelmis sexlineata Sanderson, 19381898Scott O'Dee
A photograph of the species Davainea Blanchard, not of this specimenDavainea Blanchard, 18911912D. MoteWilliamsport
Heterakidae1912D. MoteWilliamsport
A photograph of the species Hymenolepis Weinland, not of this specimenHymenolepis Weinland, 18581912D. MoteWilliamsport
A photograph of the species Etheostoma camurum, not of this specimenEtheostoma camurum (Cope, 1870)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Deer Creek, within Ross Co, Ross County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Moxostoma breviceps, not of this specimenMoxostoma breviceps (Cope, 1870)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Deer Creek, close to Pennyroyal Road, 5 miles S of Yellowbud OH, Union Township
A photograph of the species Aesculus glabra, not of this specimenAesculus glabra var. glabra1931Leslie Pontus; Floyd BartleyJackson Township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1946Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Deer Creek, near Westfall Rd, east of Clarksburg OH, Deerfield Township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1946Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Deer Creek, near Westfall Rd, east of Clarksburg OH, Deerfield Township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651946Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Deer Creek, near Westfall Rd, east of Clarksburg OH, Deerfield Township
A photograph of the species Erimyzon oblongus, not of this specimenErimyzon oblongus claviformis (Girard, 1856)1946Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Deer Creek, near Westfall Rd, east of Clarksburg OH, Deerfield Township

All 672 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Atlanta: 1 past producer, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
F.H. Brewer Plant Number 8 QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Blazer PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Plant A-4 & Quarry Blazer Mat'LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Pickaway County

Storms nearby

3 since 2016

The National Weather Service names Atlanta in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2016Thunderstorm WindAtlanta$2,000Two trees were knocked down just south of Atlanta on Highway 207.
October 2016FloodAtlanta-Water was reported over Locust Grove Road between U.S. 22 and Ohio Route 207 near Williiamsport.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindAtlanta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pickaway 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
Kozy Corners0.8 miles13
New Holland3.6 miles11
Williamsport4.1 miles12
Woodlyn4.1 miles12
Crownover Mill4.2 miles13
Grange Hall5.0 miles14
Kinderhook6.5 miles12
Pherson7.5 miles13

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 Q22133499The 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 1064351. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.