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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Adams Mills, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Cass Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43821. The Survey maps it on the Conesville quadrangle.

Adams Mills within Muskingum County

Then and now

1908 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Adams Mills, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Adams Mills, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 nearby

14 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Adams Mills between 2012 and 2020, burning about 54 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
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 March 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15452
26 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15044
26 March 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15083
26 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15068
22 March 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4031
16 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12027
12 March 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15480

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 380 shown

Museums hold 380 specimens collected within 10 miles of Adams Mills between 1866 and 1975: 226 Animalia, 146 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, Adams, W., Adams, W.; Adams, S. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Plasmopara cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) HumphreyPlasmopara cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Humphrey1898Selby, A.D.Trinway
Specimen of Synchytrium decipiens (Farl.) Farl.Synchytrium decipiens (Farl.) Farl.1931E. B. Mains
A photograph of the species Arabis hesperidoides, not of this specimenArabis hesperidoides (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray1866Day, D.F.Dresden
A photograph of the species Lampsilis ovata, not of this specimenLampsilis ovata (Say, 1817)1893Smith, Herbert HAdams Mills, Barrs Mills
A photograph of the species Ortmanniana ligamentina, not of this specimenOrtmanniana ligamentina (Lamarck, 1819)1893Smith, Herbert HAdams Mills
Hebata esuma (Goding, 1890)1917not recorded
A photograph of the species Lepomis macrochirus, not of this specimenLepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 18191928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Ohio Canal, at Adams Mills, 4.4 mi SW of Conesville, Cass township
A photograph of the species Notemigonus crysoleucas, not of this specimenNotemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Ohio Canal, at Adams Mills, 4.4 mi SW of Conesville, Cass township
A photograph of the species Ambystoma texanum, not of this specimenAmbystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Trinway, Cass Twp., Muskingum Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)near Frazeysburg, Jackson Twp., Muskingum Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Notophthalmus viridescens, not of this specimenNotophthalmus viridescens viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Near Adams Mills, Muskingum Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Plethodon cinereus, not of this specimenPlethodon cinereus (Green, 1818)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)near Frazeysburg, Jackson Twp., Muskingum Co., Ohio

All 380 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Adams Mills: 2 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
Cox Gravel Co Plant No 2 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cox PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cox Sand & Gravel Plant No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant Number 2 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Muskingum County

Storms nearby

7 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Adams Mills in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 3 flood, 3 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011Flash FloodAdams Mills$50,000Law enforcement reported flash flooding on State Route 16 near Adams Mills.
January 2012FloodAdams Mills$10,000Law enforcement reported flooding in Adams Mills on Raiders Road.
June 2019Tornado (EF1)Adams Mills$5,000The National Weather Service confirmed an EF1 tornado in |northeastern Muskingum County just east of Dresden on Stilwell |Road off of Boy Scout Road. The damage was confined to a remote |section of the county where about 15 to 20 hardwood trees were |snapped half way up, while two trees were observed to be uprooted.|Downed trees closed Stilwell Road for a time during the evening. A peak wind speed of 95 MPH was estimated.||This was the third tornado in six weeks for Muskingum County, and since 1950, this is the 19th tornado that has been recorded in the county.
July 2019Flash FloodAdams Mills$5,000Local law enforcement reported County Road 16 through Adam Mills was closed due to flooding. The roadway was completely underwater.
June 2015Flash FloodAdams Mills$5,000Law enforcement reported flash flooding on Route 16 at Adams Mills.
March 2008FloodAdams Mills$5,000A county official reported SR 16 flooded near Adams Mills.
February 2019FloodAdams Mills-The county emergency manager reported that State Route 16 was closed in both directions near Adams Mills.

Every storm recorded in Muskingum 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
Wills Town (historical)1.8 miles14
Trinway3.5 miles11
Dresden4.2 miles11
Wakatomika (historical)4.2 miles11
Lower Dresden4.4 miles11
Rock Cut6.3 miles15
Ferncliff (historical)6.6 miles12
Adamsville6.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064296. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.