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

Adamsville, Massachusetts

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Colrain town. It lies in ZIP code area 01340. It stands on Taylor Brook. The Survey maps it on the Colrain quadrangle.

Adamsville within Franklin County

Then and now

1890 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Adamsville, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Adamsville, surveyed 1890

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

27 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Adamsville between 2002 and 2020, burning about 25 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 burning21
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
17 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
29 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 April 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
25 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
19 April 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
19 April 2004Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 400 shown

Museums hold 400 specimens collected within 10 miles of Adamsville between 1847 and 1975: 221 Plantae, 126 Fungi, 46 Animalia, 7 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. T. Beals, A. W. Cheever, Ahles, H.E. 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 Cardamine diphylla (Michx.) A.W.WoodCardamine diphylla (Michx.) A.W.Wood1900F. F. Forbes
A photograph of the species Cinna latifolia, not of this specimenCinna latifolia (Trevir. ex Göpp.) Griseb.1847Russell
A photograph of the species Alnus viridis, not of this specimenAlnus viridis (Chaix) DC.1874E. F. BishopDeerfield River
A photograph of the species Streptopus lanceolatus, not of this specimenStreptopus lanceolatus (Aiton) Reveal1877Anderson
A photograph of the species Cyperus fuscus, not of this specimenCyperus fuscus L.1878C. E. Faxon
A photograph of the species Galeopsis ladanum, not of this specimenGaleopsis ladanum L.1878not recorded
A photograph of the species Orthilia secunda, not of this specimenOrthilia secunda (L.) House1878Anderson, S.E.Shelburne
A photograph of the species Silene nivea, not of this specimenSilene nivea (Nutt.) Muhl. ex Otth1878not recorded
A photograph of the species Symphyotrichum lanceolatum, not of this specimenSymphyotrichum lanceolatum (Willd.) G.L.Nesom1878T. Morong
Cronartiaceae1888Clara E. Cummings; Arthur B. Seymour; A. C. SeymourSherburne [Shelburne?]
A photograph of the species Spiranthes ochroleuca, not of this specimenSpiranthes ochroleuca (Rydb.) Rydb.1894Swinerton, J.R.Greenfield
A photograph of the species Juglans cinerea, not of this specimenJuglans cinerea L.1895C. W. TrowBuckland.

All 400 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 Adamsville: 5 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Iron, Sulfur, Iron, Sulfur. 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
Unnamed OccurrenceGraphiteOccurrence
Gossan - Not ProspectedIron, SulfurOccurrence
Gossan In East Oxbow BrookIron, SulfurOccurrence
Gossan In East Oxbow Brook ProspectIron, SulfurOccurrence
Gossan OccurrenceIron, SulfurOccurrence
Gneiss QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Gneiss QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Luther Smith Gneiss QuarryStone, DimensionProducerMetamorphic
Luther Smith Gneiss QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms nearby

3 since 2014

The National Weather Service names Adamsville in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 1 flash flood, 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 2014Flash FloodAdamsville$50,000Two to four inches of rain fell in a very brief period of time resulting in flash flooding in Colrain, Greenfield, and Gill.||In Colrain, Greenfield Road near the town common was flooded and eventually closed. A section of North Green River Road was washed away, making the road impassable. The saturated ground allowed two trees to fall on wires on South Green River Road. Another tree was downed because of erosion of the intersection of South Green River and Nelson Roads. A large rock was also blocking the roadway.||In Greenfield, a portion of High, Chapman, North, and Elm Streets, Riverside Drive, and Forbes Court were flooded and impassable. Arch Street was flooded under the bridge with a car stuck in the waters. Route 2A near the Stop and Shop was flooded with up to 4 feet of water. Sanderstown Street was closed near High Street due to flooding. A car was stuck in the floodwaters. Robbins Road was flooded with only one lane passable near Route 2. Nash's Mill Road was closed due to flooding. A car was stuck in floodwaters on Nash's Mill Road. Two houses on Forbes Court and an apartment building on Riverside Drive both had water inside.||In Gill, a house on Walnut Street was flooded with up to 8 inches of water in the basement.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindAdamsville$800In Colrain, a tree and wires were down on Wilson Hill Rd. near Purington Lane.
July 2023FloodAdamsville-In Heath, a basement was flooded on Ed Clark Rd.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Foundry Village1.7 miles36
Lyonsville1.8 miles36
Griswoldville2.5 miles36
Colrain2.8 miles36
Fort Morrison3.0 miles36
Elm Grove3.1 miles36
Shattuckville3.2 miles36
Heath3.9 miles32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608127. 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.