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Adamsville, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Kingsbury town. The Survey maps it on the Hartford quadrangle.

Adamsville within Washington County

Then and now

1893 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Adamsville, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Adamsville, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 29 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Adamsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 14 were 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/undetermined63
Natural19
Arson/incendiarism14
Debris and open burning12
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 August 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2019Debris and open burning7.0 acresNew York Forest RangersHARTFORD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Adamsville: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
D. Nichols and Son QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1892, 1925
Sandy Hill QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adamsville in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2019Thunderstorm WindAdamsville-Tree limbs fell onto wires in Kingsbury, east of Hudson Falls.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
North Argyle3.7 miles29
South Hartford4.0 miles29
Kingsbury4.3 miles29
Baldwin Corner4.7 miles28
East Hartford4.9 miles29
Hartford5.1 miles29
Goose Island5.3 miles29
Belcher5.3 miles29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 942173. 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.

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.