Adamsville, Delaware

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Harrington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19950. It stands on Quarter Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hickman quadrangle. It stands 118 feet above sea level.

Adamsville within Kent County

On record in Adamsville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Todd's Chapellisted 1998 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1918 USGS Harrington quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1944 USGS Harrington quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

17 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Adamsville between 2005 and 2018, burning about 40 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
24 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	LINE RD.
24 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	19 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
22 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.6 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
22 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
2 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
6 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
2 July 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Big Pine	1.4 miles	19
Hickman	1.8 miles	19
Andrewsville	3.5 miles	19
Greenville	4.0 miles	19
Layton Corners	4.7 miles	19
Vernon	4.7 miles	19
Brownsville	5.7 miles	19
Melvin Crossroads	6.3 miles	19

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 Adamsville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28921241	The 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 216015. 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.