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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.

Adams within Umatilla County

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

Population over time

13 figures

Adams 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.

YearPeople Change
1900268
1910205-63 (-24%)
1920198-7 (-3%)
1930178-20 (-10%)
1940169-9 (-5%)
1950154-15 (-9%)
1960192+38 (+25%)
1970219+27 (+14%)
1980240+21 (+10%)
1990223-17 (-7%)
2000297+74 (+33%)
2010350+53 (+18%)
2020389+39 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

19 since 1992

Regional 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 use12
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
8 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use40 acresUmatilla AgencyBLAKELY
3 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUmatilla AgencyUNION PACIFIC
9 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use10 acresUmatilla AgencyROTHROCK R
8 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreUmatilla AgencyRAINVILLE
5 August 2014Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresUmatilla AgencyJOHNLEY ROAD
24 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUmatilla AgencyDUFF
22 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use21 acresUmatilla AgencyHOMLY
2 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use30 acresUmatilla AgencyMANN ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Umatilla County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rogers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rogers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Catron PitStonePast Producer
Catron PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
MccormmachStonePast Producer
Mccormmach PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Umatilla County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2009HailAdams-Penny to nickel sized hail covered ground on Highway 11 at milepost 14.
May 2008Funnel CloudAdams-NWS employee observed a funnel cloud that was 3/4 of the way to the ground just northeast of Adams.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindAdams-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Umatilla 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
Athena4.9 miles8
Cayuse6.3 miles10
Helix7.6 miles10
Weston8.0 miles8
Kirkpatrick8.1 miles11
Waterman8.4 miles10
Mission9.3 miles11
Fulton10.2 miles11

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 AdamsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2388838The 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.