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

Adamsville, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43802. The Survey maps it on the Adamsville quadrangle. 140 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.

Adamsville within Muskingum County

Population over time

2 figures

Adamsville grew from 114 to 140 between 2010 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. 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
2010114
2020140+26 (+23%)

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 Adamsville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Adamsville, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Adamsville between 2012 and 2020, burning about 72 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 burning8
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 April 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15147
7 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15098
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
20 March 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,607 shown

Museums hold 1,607 specimens collected within 10 miles of Adamsville between 1866 and 1975: 1,255 Animalia, 329 Plantae, 15 Fungi, 7 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. H. Wright, A. Spreitzer, Adams, W. 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 Scleroderris rubra MorganScleroderris rubra Morgan1891Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Peziza nana Massee & MorganPeziza nana Massee & Morgan1895Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Frullania saxicola AustinFrullania saxicola Austin1896William C. Werner
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 Frullania eboracensis, not of this specimenFrullania eboracensis Lehm.1890W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Porella pinnata, not of this specimenPorella pinnata L.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylla, not of this specimenPorella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.1891W. C. Werner
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
Specimen of Plasmopara cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) HumphreyPlasmopara cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Humphrey1898Selby, A.D.Trinway
Specimen of Lachnum viridulum Massee & MorganLachnum viridulum Massee & Morgan1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Peziza morganii MasseePeziza morganii Massee1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston (The no longer extant town of Preston, Ohio, was located in Hamilton County in the Miami River drainage).

All 1,607 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

9 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Adamsville in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindAdamsville$50,000Law enforcement reported numerous trees down.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindAdamsville$15,000Local citizens report multiple trees down and power outages in Adamsville.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindAdamsville$3,000Trees reported down along Ferrell Road.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindAdamsville$2,000Trees, power lines, and another mobile home damaged by wind.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindAdamsville$1,000The local emergency manager reported trees down near Adamsville. Road name unknown. Time based on radar.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindAdamsville$1,000Trees were reported to be blown down in Adamsville.
June 2003Flash FloodAdamsville-Several rural roads flooded, including Mollies Rock Rd.
June 2013HailAdamsville-no account filed
September 1998HailAdamsville-no account filed

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
Spencer0.9 miles15
East Greenwood3.4 miles15
Ferncliff (historical)4.3 miles12
Rock Cut5.0 miles15
Ellis5.6 miles15
Gilbert6.0 miles15
Wills Town (historical)6.0 miles14
Sonora6.0 miles15

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 Q971512The 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 1064297. 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.

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.