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Photograph of Adams Commercial Historic District
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Upstate New York, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Adams Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Adams Commercial Historic District is a historic district located at Adams in Jefferson County, New York. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.”

Wikipedia article Adams Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2006 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Fires near this property

61 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Adams Commercial Historic District between 2002 and 2020, burning about 139 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined42
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
27 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
22 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Adams Commercial Historic District: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Adams Center PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Edison-Mullen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Morris Hatcliff Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Morris Hatcliff Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
O'Brian PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adams, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2005Thunderstorm WindAdams$70,000no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindAdams$30,000no account filed
November 2006Thunderstorm WindAdams$25,000no account filed
November 2020Thunderstorm WindAdams$20,000A barn was blown down on Route 78.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindAdams$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindAdams$15,000Officials reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindAdams$15,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindAdams$15,000no account filed
August 2017Thunderstorm WindAdams$10,000Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindAdams$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindAdams$10,000no account filed
April 2007Thunderstorm WindAdams$10,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindAdams$10,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindAdams$10,000no account filed
August 2017HailAdams$5,000no account filed
November 2020Thunderstorm WindAdams$2,000Trees and wires were reported downed.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindAdams$1,500Pole and primary power line downed on West Church Street.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindAdams$1,000Trees were reported down.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindAdams$500Tree downed across rail road tracks and County Rd 85.
August 2024Flash FloodAdams-A couple roads closed in the Town of Adams due to Flash Flooding.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

4 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Smith-Ripley House0.2 miles2008
Pierrepont Manor Complex5.5 miles1977
Samuel F. Ballard House6.6 miles2022
Sulphur Springs Cemetery8.0 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06000882 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson CountyAll 144 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • 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.