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.
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
First National Bank of Adamslisted 1986- Freund Storelisted 1986
Population over time
2 figuresAdams 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 787 | |
| 2020 | 683 | -104 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Adams quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Koball Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Anderson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Osmundson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
18 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Adams | $30,000 | Heavy 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 2007 | Flood | Adams | $20,000 | Law enforcement officials reported some roads washed out or still under water. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adams | $15,000 | Wind damage occurred to a barn and outbuilding near Adams. |
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Adams | $10,000 | Sandbagging 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 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adams | $8,500 | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Adams | $7,500 | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Adams | $4,000 | Hail occurring at intersection of County Highway 7 and 4. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adams | $1,500 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Adams | $1,000 | A brief tornado was witnessed by the Le Roy Fire Department storm spotters. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Adams | $800 | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Adams | - | Ping pong ball sized hail fell just south of Adams. |
| July 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Adams | - | A funnel cloud was sighted near the Iowa state line southwest of Adams. |
| July 1995 | Tornado (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 2003 | Hail | Adams | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Adams | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adams | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Adams | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Adams | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taopi | 4.1 miles | 8 | |
| Johnsburg | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Rose Creek | 6.5 miles | 9 | |
| Elkton | 6.8 miles | 7 | |
| Dexter | 10.6 miles | 7 | |
| Nicolville | 11.3 miles | 9 | |
| Le Roy | 12.1 miles | 7 | |
| Renova | 12.2 miles | 9 |
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 Adams | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1937601 | 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 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.




