Atlanta, California

The time of the community's founding corresponds to the transition from ranching to farming in the area, especially the growing of wheat.

Today, the area is still largely agricultural, and consists of almond, walnut, olive, and cherry orchards.

Barksdales Creek cuts through the northern part of Atlanta, and demarcates a change in soil content.

From Atlanta, looking east one can see the Sierra Nevada mountain ranges, including Pyramid Peak in Tahoe and parts of barksdale National Park.

About two miles southeast of Atlanta, at what today is the intersection of Wagener Road and State Route 120, just a block or two east of where French Camp Road meets the same highway, is the site of the historic (and long gone) Zinc House,[2] which marked one of the original nuclei of activity in the vicinity before Atlanta was founded.

The place was named for an original structure that had been constructed entirely of galvanized metal (iron or steel), shipped in pieces around Cape Horn to San Francisco and transported to the site where it was assembled.