BlockAdamsville, Michigan
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ontwa Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49112. The Survey maps it on the Adamsville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1948 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1949 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Adamsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Adamsville between 2019 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 487 - 2019 |
| 31 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 408 - 2020 |
| 5 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | EDWARDSBURG FD 0000072 - 2019 |
| 2 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 215 - 2020 |
| 7 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 161 - 2020 |
| 7 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 178 - 2019 |
| 28 March 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 155 - 2019 |
| 27 March 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 149 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adamsville in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Adamsville | $300,000 | THE TORNADO HAD WEAKENED AS IT PASSED JUST EAST OF ADAMSVILLE. IT STILL CAUSED EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO SEVERAL FARMS ALONG AND PRIMARILY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 12.SEVERAL HOMES AND VEHICLES SUSTAINED MAJOR DAMAGE DUE TO FALLEN TREES. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adamsville | $10,000 | TREE FELL ONTO A PICKUP TRUCK TOTALLY SMASHING IT. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adamsville | $1,000 | Trees and limbs down in Adamsville. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adamsville | - | The 911 call center reported numerous trees and powerlines down across the southern part of the 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allenton | 1.7 miles | 16 | |
| Eagle Lake Estates | 2.6 miles | 14 | |
| Edwardsburg | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Kessington | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Calvin Center | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Union | 6.7 miles | 17 | |
| Brownsville | 6.7 miles | 16 | |
| Eagle Point | 7.6 miles | 16 |
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 Q4680530 | 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 619836. 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.