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Adams, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Adams Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55909. The Survey maps it on the Adams quadrangle. 683 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,286 feet above sea level.

Adams within Mower County

On record in Adams

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Adams fell from 787 to 683 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010787
2020683-104 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Adams: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Koball MineIronPast Producer
Anderson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Osmundson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Mower County

Storms near this place

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adams in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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 2014Heavy RainAdams$30,000Heavy rains caused damage to a high school in Adams. Plugged drains on the roof caused water to fill air vents which then damaged the ceiling, some lighting and a piano inside the school.
August 2007FloodAdams$20,000Law enforcement officials reported some roads washed out or still under water.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindAdams$15,000Wind damage occurred to a barn and outbuilding near Adams.
May 2013Flash FloodAdams$10,000Sandbagging occurred in Adams and County Roads 4 and 7 near Adams were closed as water from several branches of the Little Cedar River were out of their banks. Flood waters covered much of the business district in Adams with little damage occurring to those that were able to sand bag. For those that didn't, water reached into the buildings creating minor damage.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindAdams$8,500no account filed
March 2005Tornado (F0)Adams$7,500no account filed
July 2007HailAdams$4,000Hail occurring at intersection of County Highway 7 and 4.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAdams$1,500no account filed
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Adams$1,000A brief tornado was witnessed by the Le Roy Fire Department storm spotters.
May 2006HailAdams$800no account filed
May 2022HailAdams-Ping pong ball sized hail fell just south of Adams.
July 2016Funnel CloudAdams-A funnel cloud was sighted near the Iowa state line southwest of Adams.
July 1995Tornado (F2)Adams-A tornado touched down in Adams and moved northeast touching down several times. Several buildings were damaged or destroyed. Many trees uprooted. A church in Adams lost its steeple and bell tower.
June 2003HailAdams-no account filed
May 2000HailAdams-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindAdams-no account filed
July 1997Funnel CloudAdams-no account filed
July 1995HailAdams-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mower 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
Taopi4.1 miles8
Johnsburg4.9 miles9
Rose Creek6.5 miles9
Elkton6.8 miles7
Dexter10.6 miles7
Nicolville11.3 miles9
Le Roy12.1 miles7
Renova12.2 miles9

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 AdamsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1937601The 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 639202. 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.

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.