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Adams, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Adams City. It lies in ZIP code area 53910. The Survey maps it on the Adams quadrangle. 1,761 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 965 feet above sea level.

Adams within Adams County

Population over time

2 figures

Adams fell from 1,967 to 1,761 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, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. 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
20101,967
20201,761-206 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

213 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 213 fires within 5 miles of Adams between 1992 and 2020, burning about 196 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 26 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Debris and open burning42
Equipment and vehicle use39
Arson/incendiarism26
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony6
Fireworks4
Other causes4
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
8 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 1999Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Adams: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Adams Co. Hwy. Dept.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

27 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adams in 27 storm reports between 1995 and 2016: 15 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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
September 2010FloodAdams$91,000County Road Z was underwater between County Road H and State Highway 82. Gem Court was underwater west of State Highway 13 and the shoreline along Castle Rock Lake was flooded near the dam. There were 8 homes and 1 business that incurred minor damage due to the flooding.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindAdams$30,000Trees and power lines were blown down across portions of Adams County. The downed trees blocked roadways and fell on top of homes and cars. According to the emergency manager, it appears that Preston Township in the central part of the county, was hit the hardest with downed trees.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindAdams$12,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindAdams$10,000Numerous trees were blown down, several on nearby homes. Power lines were also knocked down causing house fires. Railroad crossings were also blown down.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindAdams$10,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindAdams$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down southeast of Adams.
August 2005Tornado (F1)Adams$5,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindAdams$4,000Trees were sporadically blown down across the southern part of Adams County, but the most were down across the south central part of the county.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindAdams$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down in Adams.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindAdams$2,500no account filed
August 2012Thunderstorm WindAdams$2,000Trees were blown down south of Friendship.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindAdams$2,000no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindAdams$1,000no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindAdams$750A tree was blown down on 7th Avenue south of County Road M.
June 2004HailAdams$750no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindAdams$500Two large trees were knocked down near 10th and Edgewood St.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindAdams$500no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindAdams$300no account filed
May 2016HailAdams-Quarter sized hail fell in the town of Adams and covered the ground.
May 2016HailAdams-Quarter sized hail fell southwest of the town of Adams.
September 2016HailAdams-Quarter sized hail fell in Adams.
April 2011HailAdams-Penny to dime sized hail fell in the Adams/Friendship area.
July 2016HailAdams-no account filed
May 2002HailAdams-no account filed
April 2002HailAdams-no account filed
September 1998HailAdams-no account filed
July 1997HailAdams-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Friendship1.0 miles10
Adams Center (historical)3.0 miles10
Fordham (historical)4.6 miles11
Arkdale6.1 miles8
Brookside6.6 miles10
Dellwood6.7 miles10
Roche a Cri (historical)6.8 miles7
Cottonville7.1 miles7

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 AdamsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1570396The 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 1560681. 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.