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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Adams Center. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Adams Center to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Adams Center, please Contact Us.
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Adams Center (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Adams Center. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Name Variations for Adams Center ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.
- A typical abbreviation for Adams Center: Adams Ctr. (or less commonly used: Adams Cen., Adams Cent. or Adams Cntr.)
- While the name of this community is Adams Center, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So Adams Center may originally have been Adam's Center.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Adams Center might be written as Adam Center.
You might be interested in other communities that are also named Adams Center. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Adams Center.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Adams Center is historic, it would have been located within present day Adams County.
To see how the shape of Wisconsin's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Adams County: Columbia, Juneau, Marquette, Portage, Sauk, Waushara & Wood.
Below are the counties that are near Adams Center. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Adams Center:
- Adams County (The home county of Adams Center)
- The following are listed by their distance from Adams Center, with the one closest to Adams Center listed first.
- Adams
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Adams is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adams
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,905 people
- Friendship
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Friendship is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
- Population from the 2020 Census: 676 people
- Easton
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Easton is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Easton
- Arkdale
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Arkdale is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arkdale
- Quincy ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Quincy is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quincy
- Pilot Knob ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Pilot Knob is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilot Knob
- Big Flats
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Big Flats is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Flats
- Strongs Prairie
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Strongs Prairie is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strongs Prairie
- Plainville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Plainville is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainville
- Leola
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Leola is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leola
- New Rome ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- New Rome is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Rome
- Columbia County
- The following are listed by their distance from Adams Center, with the one closest to Adams Center listed first.
- Wisconsin Dells
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Wisconsin Dells is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wisconsin Dells
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,061 people
- Portage
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Portage is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Portage
- Population from the 2020 Census: 10,381 people
- Juneau County
- The following are listed by their distance from Adams Center, with the one closest to Adams Center listed first.
- Lemonweir
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Lemonweir is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lemonweir
- Necedah
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Necedah is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Necedah
- Population from the 2020 Census: 923 people
- Lyndon Station
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Lyndon Station is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyndon Station
- Population from the 2020 Census: 485 people
- Mauston
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Mauston is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mauston
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,358 people
- New Lisbon
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- New Lisbon is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Lisbon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,547 people
- New Miner
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- New Miner is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Miner
- Sprague
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Sprague is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sprague
- Camp Douglas
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Camp Douglas is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Douglas
- Population from the 2020 Census: 625 people
- Hustler
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Hustler is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hustler
- Population from the 2020 Census: 190 people
- Elroy
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Elroy is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elroy
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,306 people
- Wonewoc
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Wonewoc is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wonewoc
- Population from the 2020 Census: 789 people
- Union Center
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Union Center is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Center
- Population from the 2020 Census: 193 people
- Mather
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Mather is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mather
- Marquette County
- The following are listed by their distance from Adams Center, with the one closest to Adams Center listed first.
- Oxford
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Oxford is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxford
- Population from the 2020 Census: 604 people
- Westfield
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Westfield is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westfield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,268 people
- Douglas Center
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Douglas Center is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Douglas Center
- Packwaukee
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Packwaukee is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Packwaukee
- Endeavor
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Endeavor is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Endeavor
- Population from the 2020 Census: 464 people
- Glen Oak
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Glen Oak is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Oak
- Montello
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Montello is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montello
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,454 people
- Germania
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Germania is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Germania
- Neshkoro
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Neshkoro is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neshkoro
- Population from the 2020 Census: 425 people
- Monroe County
- The following are listed by their distance from Adams Center, with the one closest to Adams Center listed first.
- Shennington
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Shennington is located in Monroe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shennington
- Clifton
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Clifton is located in Monroe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifton
- Kendall
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Kendall is located in Monroe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kendall
- Population from the 2020 Census: 472 people
- Oakdale
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Oakdale is located in Monroe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakdale
- Population from the 2020 Census: 290 people
- Wyeville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Wyeville is located in Monroe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyeville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 141 people
- Portage County
- Almond
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Almond is located in Portage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almond
- Population from the 2020 Census: 428 people
- Sauk County
- The following are listed by their distance from Adams Center, with the one closest to Adams Center listed first.
- Lake Delton
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Lake Delton is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Delton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,986 people
- Reedsburg
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Reedsburg is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reedsburg
- Population from the 2020 Census: 9,500 people
- La Valle
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- La Valle is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Valle
- Population from the 2020 Census: 360 people
- Baraboo
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Baraboo is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baraboo
- Population from the 2020 Census: 12,121 people
- Rock Springs
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Rock Springs is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Springs
- Population from the 2020 Census: 361 people
- West Baraboo
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- West Baraboo is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Baraboo
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,416 people
- Ironton
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Ironton is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ironton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 251 people
- Waushara County
- The following are listed by their distance from Adams Center, with the one closest to Adams Center listed first.
- Coloma
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Coloma is located in Waushara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coloma
- Population from the 2020 Census: 444 people
- Hancock
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Hancock is located in Waushara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hancock
- Population from the 2020 Census: 402 people
- Plainfield
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Plainfield is located in Waushara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainfield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 832 people
- Wautoma
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Wautoma is located in Waushara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wautoma
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,114 people
- Silver Lake
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Silver Lake is located in Waushara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Lake
- Wood County
- The following are listed by their distance from Adams Center, with the one closest to Adams Center listed first.
- Nekoosa
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Nekoosa is located in Wood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nekoosa
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,391 people
- Port Edwards
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Port Edwards is located in Wood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Edwards
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,752 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Adams Center, see our County-by-County Page for Adams Center.
Cemeteries Near Adams Center ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Adams Center.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Adams Center - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Adams Center covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Adams Center, with the one closest to Adams Center listed first.
- Mt. Repose Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- St. Leos Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Easton Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Gould Rock Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Quincy Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Pine Grove Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Townline Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- East Arkdale Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- South Arkdale Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Dellwood Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- St. Michaels Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Township Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (164 more) ...
- Indian Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- West Arkdale Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Cottonville Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.
Adams Center itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Adams Center, with the one closest to Adams Center listed first.
- Friendship
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Friendship is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
- Population from the 2020 Census: 676 people
- Grand Marsh
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Grand Marsh is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Marsh
- Easton
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Easton is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Easton
- White Creek
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- White Creek is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Creek
- Quincy ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Quincy is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quincy
- New Chester ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- New Chester is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Chester
- Arkdale
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Arkdale is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arkdale
- Roche a Cri ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Roche a Cri is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roche a Cri
- Pilot Knob ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Pilot Knob is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilot Knob
- Strongs Prairie
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Strongs Prairie is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strongs Prairie
- Lemonweir
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Lemonweir is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lemonweir
- Plainville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Plainville is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainville
- Continue List (16 more) ...
- Oxford
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Oxford is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxford
- Population from the 2020 Census: 604 people
- Lyndon Station
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Lyndon Station is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyndon Station
- Population from the 2020 Census: 485 people
- Monroe Center
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Monroe Center is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monroe Center
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Adams Center. See our List of 1890's Communities around Adams Center.
Newspapers Published in Adams Center ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 111 newspapers that have been published in the area around Adams Center.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Adams Center, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Adams Center.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Adams Center:
- Websites specific to Wisconsin
- Pages specific to Adams County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Columbia County
- Juneau County
- Marquette County
- Monroe County
- Portage County
- Sauk County
- Waushara County
- Wood County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Wisconsin
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 Center, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Adams Center) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |