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Adamsville, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Valverde Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67119. The Survey maps it on the Adamsville quadrangle.

Adamsville within Sumner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

17 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Adamsville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 147 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
17 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCowley County1203
9 April 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKansas Forest Service715
6 April 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresKansas Forest Service328
3 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service666
20 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service18018
9 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service205
31 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service301

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumner County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adamsville in 2 storm reports in 1998: 2 hail. 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
June 1998HailAdamsville-no account filed
June 1998HailAdamsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sumner 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
Paton3.0 miles13
Geuda Springs4.3 miles13
Oxford7.0 miles14
Ashton7.0 miles13
Dalton8.3 miles13
Portland9.8 miles14
Whitman11.0 miles14
Rome11.4 miles13

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 Q17509712The 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 484514. 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.

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.