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

Adamsville, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Raccoon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45614. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Vinton quadrangle.

Adamsville within Gallia County

Then and now

1906 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 75 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 1981
Topographic sheet of Adamsville, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

50 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Adamsville between 2006 and 2020, burning about 115 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 burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15269
7 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15786
15 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15784
23 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15764
18 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4487

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 200 shown

Museums hold 200 specimens collected within 10 miles of Adamsville between 1900 and 1974: 131 Animalia, 39 Plantae, 28 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. M. Evans, Babcocks D. O., Bartley, F. 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 Chaetona flavipennis Coquillett, 1902Chaetona flavipennis Coquillett, 19021900[Not Stated]Vinton
Specimen of Chrysops niger Macquart, 1838Chrysops niger Macquart, 18381900not recorded
Specimen of Gymnosporangium germinale (Schwein.) F.KernGymnosporangium germinale (Schwein.) F.Kern1901Kellerman, W.A.Vinton
unnamed1900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Animalia1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Arthromacra aenea, not of this specimenArthromacra aenea1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Chrysotus Meigen, not of this specimenChrysotus Meigen, 18241900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Chrysotus distinctus, not of this specimenChrysotus distinctus Van Duzee, 19241900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Chrysotus obliquus Loew, 18611900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Liancalus genualis Loew, 18611900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Meracantha contracta (Palisot de Beauvois, 1812)1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Tarpela micans (Fabricius, 1798)1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States

All 200 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Adamsville: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bituminous. 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
Holley PitStone, Crushed/Broken, BituminousProducer
Queen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Queen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Gallia County

Storms nearby

4 since 2002

The National Weather Service names Adamsville in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 1 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 2002Tornado (F2)Adamsville3 hurt, $3,500,000A warm frontal boundary interacted with a complex of showers and thunderstorms to form a tornado on the southern flank of the precipitation. Touchdown was along Adamsville Road near Route 35. The roof was ripped off a home, 2 mobile homes were destroyed, along with a pole barn. The tornado then struck both rest areas on Route 35. The rest building on the north side of the highway was severely damaged. At least 2 tractor trailers were flipped over, while others parked in the lot, were damaged. Another mobile home near the rest stop was destroyed. Proceeding just east to Dewey Road, the tornado wiped a modular home off its foundation. A trailer was destroyed at the corner of Kerr and Viney Roads. Down Kerr Road, a home had its roof removed and a mobile home was moved off its foundation. On Fairview Road, another mobile home was damaged. What was amazing and fortunate, in just about all the cases, no one was home when the tornado struck. Three people were injured at the rest stop.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindAdamsville$8,000Sporadic tree damage was noted from Farmview and Adamsville Road southward following Creekview Drive and Garners Ford Road. The most significant damage was observed at this point along Creekview Drive, where a two foot diameter partially rotten hardwood tree was snapped near the ground.
July 2015Flash FloodAdamsville$5,000A few roads were closed by high water including State Route 141. Bullskin and Little Bullskin Creeks were a few of the creeks involved.
April 2025FloodAdamsville-Raccoon Creek at Adamsville exceeded a bankfull level of 21 feet on the morning of April 7th. After cresting near 21.2 feet that evening, the creek returned below bankfull the next afternoon. Creek View Drive and the Canoe Livery Road near the Route 588 Bridge, Museum buildings near the Route 588 bridge, Bob Evans campground, Garners Ford Road, and low areas near Raccoon Creek flooded while out of its banks.

Every storm recorded in Gallia 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
Rio Grande1.4 miles11
Harrisburg1.8 miles10
McCormick (historical)2.9 miles13
Tynrhos (historical)3.3 miles12
Rodney3.3 miles13
Cora3.6 miles13
Bidwell4.2 miles10
Hideaway Acres4.2 miles13

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 AdamsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988808The 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 1075242. 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.