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Adams Gardens, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Harlingen-San Benito census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78552. The Survey maps it on the La Feria quadrangle.

Adams Gardens within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 printed 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 near this place

116 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Adams Gardens between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,698 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 28 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
Debris and open burning40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Arson/incendiarism28
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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
3 August 1993Debris and open burning10 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeTIOCANO2
25 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeADAMS CANAL N/O
24 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeCORNER
23 August 2004Arson/incendiarism30 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeLA FERIA
18 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeRESACA DE LOS FRESNOS
12 August 2004Debris and open burning10 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeHAY BALE
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILSON COMMAND
4 July 2005Debris and open burning35 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexJULY 4TH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adams Gardens in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 2 hail. 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
April 2023HailAdams Gardens-A HAM radio operator reported nickel (0.88) to quarter (1.0) sized hail on the north side of La Feria.
September 2009HailAdams Gardens-The public reported quarter size hail up to one inch in size fell during a thunderstorm which moved through La Feria. The hail was observed near the intersection of North Parker Road and Expressway 83 in La Feria.

Every storm recorded in Cameron 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
Windsong Village Colonia1.4 miles13
Valle Verde Colonia1.6 miles13
La Feria1.8 miles13
Barrington Heights Colonia1.9 miles13
Stuart Place2.0 miles13
North La Feria Village Colonia2.4 miles13
La Feria Gardens Colonia2.7 miles13
Solis2.7 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 Adams GardensAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122550430The 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 2034642. 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.

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.