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Adamsville, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Adamsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76550. The Survey maps it on the Adamsville quadrangle. It stands 1,063 feet above sea level.

Adamsville within Lampasas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

16 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Adamsville between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,275 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1

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 2018Natural110 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFRONT
7 July 2006Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use54 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2337
23 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceADAMSVILLE
22 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined214 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSPIVEY
6 June 2006Debris and open burning45 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 May 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLAKELY ROAD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lampasas County

Storms near this place

18 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adamsville in 18 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 9 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
April 2014HailAdamsville$40,000Lampasas County Sheriff's Deputies reported golf ball sized hail north of Lampasas.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindAdamsville$5,000Law enforcement reported that an 18-wheeler was blown onto its side 4 miles south of Adamsville, TX.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindAdamsville$5,000Numerous trees were blown down along Highway 281 between Adamsville and Evant.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindAdamsville$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down by high winds.
April 2023HailAdamsville$5,000no account filed
April 2008HailAdamsville$5,000no account filed
March 2016HailAdamsville$3,000A trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail approximately 5 miles south-southwest of Evant, TX.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindAdamsville$2,000A garage was damaged by high winds.
May 2025HailAdamsville-Emergency manager relayed a photo of quarter to half dollar sized hail.
July 2025Flash FloodAdamsville-Emergency management reported that flooding covering US Highway 281 south of Adamsville resulted in a temporary closure of the highway.
May 2024Flash FloodAdamsville-Emergency Management reported flooded roadways in Adamsville.
March 2021HailAdamsville-A trained spotter reported ping pong ball size hail.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindAdamsville-A social media report indicated large trees down in the city of Adamsville, TX.
June 2007Flash FloodAdamsville-High water was over Highway 581 between Adamsville and Lometa.
August 2005Flash FloodAdamsville-Simms Creek and roads around it were closed due to flooding.
April 2008HailAdamsville-no account filed
May 2006HailAdamsville-no account filed
May 1993HailAdamsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lampasas 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
Izoro5.0 miles13
Faubion Crossing6.3 miles13
Moline9.4 miles13
Rumley10.3 miles13
Ogles (historical)12.7 miles14
Lometa13.2 miles13
Brooks Crossing14.1 miles13
Radio Junction15.5 miles12

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 Q29033965The 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 1350883. 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.