Adams, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Adams City. It lies in ZIP code area 58210. The Survey maps it on the Adams quadrangle. 127 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,572 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 1 record
- District No. 70-Hoff Rural Schoollisted 2008
Population over time
2 figuresAdams grew from 127 to 127 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 | 127 | |
| 2020 | 127 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Adams quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Adams between 2000 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | HNDRKSN WF |
| 22 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 6222020 |
| 28 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | BJERKE WF |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
31 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adams in 31 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 20 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adams | $50,000 | Two steel 3,500 bushel hopper bins were blown over and numerous large trees were uprooted. The city park reported about $3,000 in damages. Scattered power outages also occurred. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adams | $10,000 | A strong wind broke several windows and blew down several 130 foot tall trees. The strong wind pushed large round hay bales 400 feet across a field. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Adams | - | Received a report of 2.25 inch hail, photo relayed via social media. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Adams | - | Received a public report of hail up to 2.5 inches. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Adams | - | Video of windshield being damaged sent in by storm chaser. Hail size was up to 1.75 inches. Location estimated by radar. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Adams | - | Public reports quarter sized hail 6 miles north of Adams, North Dakota. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adams | - | Trees were blown down near the south branch of the Park River. Time was estimated based on radar. |
| June 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Adams | - | A condensation funnel and ground swirl were briefly visible before rain obscured view. Resultant ground track was evident as numerous snapped boxelder and ash trees through several field shelter belts from northeast Vesta Township into southeast Tiber Township. Tornado likely tracked to the NNE for nearly 2 miles to near 3.5 WSW Edinburg by 333 pm CDT. Peak wind estimated to 90 mph. Maximum width to 100 yards. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adams | - | NDAWN station measured this gust. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adams | - | Peak wind measured at an NDAWN station at 10 meters. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adams | - | The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet sensor. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adams | - | Wind driven hail damaged crops across portions of southeast Shepherd and northeast Sauter townships. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Adams | - | A lot of quarter sized hail fell along with 1.50 inches of rain. |
| June 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Adams | - | The tornado tracked across a shelterbelt and along the edge of a farmstead. A few large branches were broken down and tossed across the field, but no structures were hit. Peak wind speeds were estimated at 75 mph. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adams | - | A shed was destroyed and two grain bins were blown off slab. Power poles were also blown down. Peak winds were estimated at 105 mph. |
| August 2002 | Hail | Adams | - | The ground was white with hail. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Adams | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Adams | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Adams | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Adams | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Adams | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Adams | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Adams | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Adams | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Adams | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Adams | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Adams | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Adams | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Adams | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adams | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairdale | 9.4 miles | 7 | |
| Lankin | 11.2 miles | 8 | |
| Pleasant Valley | 11.9 miles | 8 | |
| Edinburg | 12.6 miles | 9 | |
| Kerry | 14.8 miles | 9 | |
| Park River | 18.0 miles | 8 | |
| Fordville | 20.8 miles | 9 | |
| Pisek | 21.0 miles | 8 |
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 Q2442908 | 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 1027651. 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.




