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Adamsville, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Palm River-Gibsonton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33534. It stands on Kitchen Branch. The Survey maps it on the Gibsonton quadrangle.

Adamsville within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1921 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Adamsville, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Adamsville, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Adamsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,131 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 20 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
Natural28
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Arson/incendiarism20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony6
Fireworks1

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
17 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFlorida Forest Service29 ROCKLEDGE 2
13 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 1998Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1998Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1996Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2004Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGARDEN PARK
29 August 1996Equipment and vehicle use20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2013Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBULLFROG 9 (29)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Adamsville: 3 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Big Bend TerminalPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
Tampa Phosphoric Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown1965
Dot Tampa - Tucker Jones MineSandUnknownSand
Hill's Dirt Pit - Hill's Lake MineSandUnknown
James Hill Co. - Martinez LakeSandProducer
Parkway Center Community - Parkway PitSandProducer

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adamsville in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 2011Thunderstorm WindAdamsville$5,000A home in Covington Park received damage from straight-line winds. Multiple shingles were blown off of the peak of the roof, there was damage to a portion of the soffit on the west side of the house, a trampoline was blown over and destroyed, and heavy outdoor furniture was moved several feet.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindAdamsville$1,000An amateur radio operator relayed a report of a 1.5 foot diameter tree knocked down.
March 2014Thunderstorm WindAdamsville$1,000Broadcast media relayed a report of wires down at the intersection of U.S. Highway 41 and Big Bend Road. Time was estimated by radar.

Every storm recorded in Hillsborough 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
Remlap1.2 miles18
Gibsonton2.7 miles18
Apollo Beach3.1 miles18
McQueens Village (historical)3.4 miles18
East Tampa3.4 miles18
North Ruskin3.5 miles18
Riverview4.7 miles16
Progress Village6.0 miles16

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 Q4680529The 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 277687. 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.

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.