Adamsville, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Dearing census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30808. The Survey maps it on the Harlem quadrangle.

Adamsville within McDuffie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1922 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Thomson quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

315 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 315 fires within 5 miles of Adamsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 639 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 34 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
Debris and open burning	193
Arson/incendiarism	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Smoking	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Natural	12
Recreation and ceremony	8

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
9 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-COLUMBIA-003
8 September 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021MCDUFFIE002
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	4.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-MCDUFFIE-003
3 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-COLUMBIA-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McDuffie County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Adamsville: 4 occurrences, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Kaolin, Brick Clay, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Campania Mine	Clay	Producer
Campania Pit	Brick Clay	Occurrence
Bowden Pit	Kaolin	Occurrence
Bowden Pit	Kaolin	Producer
Continental Can Mine	Kaolin	Occurrence
Georgia Kaolin Pit	Kaolin	Occurrence
Hinton Mine	Kaolin	Producer
Poss Mine	Kaolin	Producer

Every working recorded in McDuffie 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
Megahee	1.9 miles	15
Avondale	2.7 miles	17
Dearing	2.7 miles	15
Autney	4.1 miles	15
Happy Valley	5.1 miles	15
Boneville	5.4 miles	15
Thomson	9.7 miles	10
Ansley Mill	10.2 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 348743. 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.