Adams, Oregon
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Athena census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97810. It lies near Sand Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Adams quadrangle. 389 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,526 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 3 records
Adams Odd Fellows Halllisted 1994
Greasewood Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Churchlisted 1988
Reese and Redman General Merchandise Storelisted 1994
Population over time
13 figuresAdams grew from 268 to 389 between 1900 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1900 | 268 | |
| 1910 | 205 | -63 (-24%) |
| 1920 | 198 | -7 (-3%) |
| 1930 | 178 | -20 (-10%) |
| 1940 | 169 | -9 (-5%) |
| 1950 | 154 | -15 (-9%) |
| 1960 | 192 | +38 (+25%) |
| 1970 | 219 | +27 (+14%) |
| 1980 | 240 | +21 (+10%) |
| 1990 | 223 | -17 (-7%) |
| 2000 | 297 | +74 (+33%) |
| 2010 | 350 | +53 (+18%) |
| 2020 | 389 | +39 (+11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1935 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Adams quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
19 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Adams between 1992 and 2018, burning about 582 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Umatilla Agency | BLAKELY |
| 3 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Umatilla Agency | UNION PACIFIC |
| 9 August 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Umatilla Agency | ROTHROCK R |
| 8 August 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Umatilla Agency | RAINVILLE |
| 5 August 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Umatilla Agency | JOHNLEY ROAD |
| 24 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Umatilla Agency | DUFF |
| 22 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 21 acres | Umatilla Agency | HOMLY |
| 2 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Umatilla Agency | MANN ROAD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Adams: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rogers Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Rogers Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Catron Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Catron Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Mccormmach | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Mccormmach Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adams in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2009 | Hail | Adams | - | Penny to nickel sized hail covered ground on Highway 11 at milepost 14. |
| May 2008 | Funnel Cloud | Adams | - | NWS employee observed a funnel cloud that was 3/4 of the way to the ground just northeast of Adams. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | 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.
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 Q2388838 | 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 1116762. 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.




