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Adamsville, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Florence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85132. It stands on Bogart Wash. The Survey maps it on the Florence quadrangle.

Adamsville within Pinal County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Adamsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 732 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 were 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/undetermined72
Debris and open burning17
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
23 September 1992Arson/incendiarism120 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
18 September 1993Debris and open burning30 acresPima AgencyCHIN RD
6 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
30 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSTRAWBERRY
26 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
22 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeADAMSVILLE
21 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
19 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorence Fire Departmentnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinal County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Adamsville: 14 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Gold, Molybdenum, Copper, Lead, Silver, Tungsten. 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 M Jackson PropertyGold, Molybdenum, Copper, Lead, Silver, TungstenOccurrence
FlorenceCopper Sulfide, Copper Oxide, MolybdenumProspect1969
Oro Negro Mining Co PropertiesIronProspect
Stone QuarryStonePast Producer
Coolidge Pit & Plant #7380Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pinal 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
Valley Farms1.7 miles16
Florence3.2 miles19
Coolidge4.7 miles21
Borree Corner6.8 miles21
Cactus Forest7.4 miles15
Blackwater7.6 miles17
Randolph7.7 miles21
Magma8.7 miles20

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 AdamsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15781590The 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 24293. 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.

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.