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Adamsville, Utah

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Milford-Minersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84752. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Adamsville quadrangle. It stands 5,528 feet above sea level.

Adamsville within Beaver County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Adamsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,316 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 1 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
Natural27
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking2
Firearms and explosives use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 September 2004Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeGOULES
9 September 2000Smokingunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeHANGING RK
30 September 2011Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeSHORT TIME
30 September 2011Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeNO TIME
29 September 2001Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeROCKY FORD
27 September 2008Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeMINERSVILLE DAM
24 September 1994Smoking2.0 acresCedar City Field OfficeBEAVER R.
23 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHAROLD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaver County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Adamsville: 19 past producers, 5 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Tungsten, Lead, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Big Pass Blue Star, Strategic Metals MineSilver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Tungsten, Lead, Gold, Molybdenum, Iron, CopperPast ProducerContact Metasomatic
Big Pass MineTungsten, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1927
Creole MineCopper, ZincProducer
Harriet Mine GroupLead, ZincPast ProducerGalena, Plumbojarosite
Harriett MineCopper, Lead, Silver, GoldPast Producer
Molly ClaimsLead, Silver, Tungsten, IronPast ProducerLimonite, Pyrite, Scheelite
Molly GroupTungsten, Lead, Zinc, SilverPast ProducerContact Metamorphic
Molly GroupLead, Zinc, Tungsten, SilverPast Producer
Strategic Metals MineTungsten, Lead, SilverPast Producer1940, 1944
Strategic Metals MineLead, TungstenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Beaver County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adamsville in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2024: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAdamsville-The Minersville Reservoir mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 63 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
July 2021Flash FloodAdamsville-Water and debris flowed across State Route 21.

Every storm recorded in Beaver 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
Greenville4.3 miles15
Minersville7.5 miles17
Beaver8.2 miles15
Cunningham Hill10.2 miles15
Manderfield10.8 miles15
North Creek12.7 miles17
Cook Corner13.7 miles10
Milford15.0 miles11

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 Q4680534The 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 1425050. 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.

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.