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History · Adams Township

16% of Adams Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1968 on.

0on the National Register
16%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Adams Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Adams Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story

How Adams Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Adams Township.

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On March 29, 1886, Adams Township was set off from Deep River Township. James Adams, Albert Reagh and Lui Klein were appointed to oversee the first annual township meeting to be held April 5, 1886

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Adams Township, 1889 to 1968

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1889Post officeThe Moores Junction post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1907Post officeThe Moores Junction post office closes
  5. 1968On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

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On the map

Adams Township on the map, 1968 to 1983

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Adams Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Adams Township on the 1968 USGS mapAdams Township on the 1983 USGS map1968Sterling sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Adams Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Adams Township

Nobody well known was born in Adams Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Janae KrocAmerican powerlifter and bodybuilder · b. 1972
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Harry MatuzakAmerican baseball player · b. 1910
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone

Another post office, Moores Junction, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Morres Junction
Gone or out of use
Adams Oil FieldoilfieldMoores Junction Post Officepost officeNorth Adams Oil FieldoilfieldSterling Oil Fieldoilfield

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Deep River TownshipIts storyCMoffatt TownshipIts storyDGibson TownshipIts storyC+Grim TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.