Photograph by Bowling Green State University, Public domain. Via
Wikimedia Commons.
ATLANTA (steam screw) Shipwreck
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
From the record
“SS Atlanta was a wooden-hulled Great Lakes steamer that sank in Lake Michigan off the coast of Cedar Grove, Wisconsin, United States, after a failed attempt of her being towed to shore ultimately killing five out of her seven crew members on board. Her wreckage still remains at the bottom of the lake, and on November 6, 2017, the wreck of the Atlanta was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article SS Atlanta, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 60 National Register listings published here for Sheboygan County · listed in 2017 · category: Site.
Also known as. Great Lakes Shipwreck Sites of Wisconsin MPS
National Register reference number. 100001785 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
5 since 2018
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 5 fires within 5 miles of ATLANTA (steam screw) Shipwreck
between 2018 and 2020, burning under an acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Debris and open burning
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Cedar Grove, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flood, 1 lightning.
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.
A newspaper article noted that lightning struck a cabin somewhere in the Civil Town of Holland, and the resultant fire damaged the building. Cedar Grove was used only as a nearby reference point.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
2 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.
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