Welcome to Adams ...
So far, we found very little information about Adams. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Adams to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Adams - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Adams, please Contact Us.
While we don't have the exact location of Adams , we believe that it would have been located within present day Fairfield County<2>.
While we don't have a date for the founding of Adams, you might consider that their post office opened in 1898.
Time Zone: The area where Adams was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time
The Area Codes where Adams was located: 203 & 475<3>
Communities Also Named Adams ...
Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 51 communities that are also named Adams - they are located in Alabama (2), California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia (5), Illinois (2), Indiana (3), Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri (3), Nebraska (2), New Jersey, New York, North Carolina (2), North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania (4), South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas (3), Vermont, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin (2).
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Adams.
Websites for Adams ...
Chamber of Commerce: www.businessfairfield.com/
Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Adams, the following might be of interest:
Adding Adams to Our Gazetteer ...
We originally found mention of Adams in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.
From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Adams was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
X2X - From that list, the Adams post office opened in 1898.
We also found Adams on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Connecticut (1911).
For more details, see References and Mentions for Adams.
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for State of Connecticut: https://portal.ct.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Adams, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | If you're interested in how the shape of Connecticut's counties, including Fairfield, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <3> | When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 203 code has been Overlayed with the 475 area code. New phone numbers in the Adams area will be assigned with one of these codes: 203 or 475. As a result, placing a call in the Adams area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number). |
| <4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |