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

Adamsdale, Massachusetts

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1987. It stands in North Attleborough Town City. It lies in ZIP code area 02760. It stands on Millers River. The Survey maps it on the Attleboro quadrangle.

Adamsdale within Bristol County

Then and now

1887 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Adamsdale, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Adamsdale, surveyed 1887

Topographic sheets covering this place

36 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

16 since 2008

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Adamsdale between 2008 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2

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 August 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 June 2016Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
14 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRhode Island Division of Forest Environmentnot named
23 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 April 2020Smokingunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
30 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
25 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bristol County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 628 shown

Museums hold 628 specimens collected within 10 miles of Adamsdale between 1844 and 1975: 412 Plantae, 143 Animalia, 72 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A., A. A. Eaton, A. E. Sears 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
A photograph of the species Calla palustris, not of this specimenCalla palustris L.1844Thurber, G.
A photograph of the species Chamaecrista fasciculata, not of this specimenChamaecrista fasciculata (Michx.) Greene1846not recorded
A photograph of the species Apocynum cannabinum, not of this specimenApocynum cannabinum L.1855F. C. SeymourRehoboth
A photograph of the species Solidago latissimifolia, not of this specimenSolidago latissimifolia Mill.1867Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Carex austrina, not of this specimenCarex austrina Mack.1871S. T. OlneyFields Point, Providence
A photograph of the species Carex muehlenbergii, not of this specimenCarex muehlenbergii Willd.1871S. T. OlneyFields Point
A photograph of the species Carex muskingumensis, not of this specimenCarex muskingumensis Schwein.1871Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Carex swanii, not of this specimenCarex swanii (Fernald) Mack.1871Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Carex tribuloides, not of this specimenCarex tribuloides var. tribuloides1871S. T. Olney
A photograph of the species Carex virescens, not of this specimenCarex virescens Muhl. ex Willd.1871S. T. OlneyEast Providence
A photograph of the species Coreopsis rosea, not of this specimenCoreopsis rosea Nutt.1871T. C. Porter
A photograph of the species Solidago elliottii, not of this specimenSolidago elliottii Torr. & A.Gray1871Congdon, J.W.East Providence

All 628 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Adamsdale: 7 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
Adamsdale MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bishops Bend PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Courtois Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Del Soullier PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Del Soullier and SonsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Morse Co Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Morse Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
River Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bristol County

Storms nearby

4 since 2019

The National Weather Service names Adamsdale in 4 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2024Tornado (EF1)Adamsdale$30,000A tornado touched down near Breakneck Hill Road in Lincoln, RI|and traveled to the east-northeast. A number of large hardwood|trees were uprooted, some of which fell onto homes and other|structures in both Lincoln and Cumberland, RI. The tornado|reached maximum intensity of around 100 mph in a few locations.|Other trees were topped and snapped well above the ground. The|maximum width of the tornado was around 100 yards. |The tornado continued to produce tree damage|through Cumberland, RI across the state line into North|Attleboro, MA where it continued to snap and uproot trees before|lifting in the vicinity of Cushman Road.
August 2023Tornado (EF1)Adamsdale$30,000The storm that produced the Rhode Island tornado produced a second|tornado as it crossed into Massachusetts, just over the Cumberland|line in North Attleborough. ||Many trees were snapped or uprooted on Mendon Road near the|intersection of Monticello Drive. An eyewitness saw swirling|debris before taking shelter in her home. From there, damage was|more sporadic. A home on Mary Ann Way had its third floor window|blown in. Additionally, there were a number of downed or snapped|trees on Lisa Drive. The tornado then lifted briefly before|touching back down in Mansfield along Gilbert Street, where it|sheared several large trees near their tops, one of which fell on|a car. An air conditioning unit, estimated to have weighed 1000|pounds, was knocked over on the roof of a one-story commercial|building.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindAdamsdale$1,500In North Attleborough, at 350 PM EST, trees were down on wires on Norton Road. A tree was down on Mount Hope Street. At 355 PM EST, a tree was down on power lines on Jefferson Street.
September 2023FloodAdamsdale-In North Attleboro, there was flooding along Rt 1 near the I-295 interchange.

Every storm recorded in Bristol 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
Attleborough City1.1 miles36
South Attleboro1.4 miles36
Hebronville3.2 miles36
North Seekonk3.4 miles36
East Junction3.6 miles36
Perrins Crossing3.9 miles36
Camp Herbron3.9 miles36
Dodgeville3.9 miles36

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 612031. 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.