Adams County, Iowa, United States

Details for Adams County

Name

Adams County

Place Type

County

Located in

Iowa, United States

County Seat

Corning (Quincy Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		41.0333198		41° 01' 60" N
Longitude		-94.7002501		94° 42' 00.9" W

Population

4,866

Elevation

373 m

Surrounding Counties

Adair NE
Union E
Ringgold SE
Taylor S
Page SW
Montgomery W
Cass NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

465191

Histopolis Place ID

961062579

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Adams County

8 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

The Political Graveyard: Adams County, Iowa [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/AM.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Adams County, IAGenWeb Archives Table of Contents [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/adams/adams.htm (9 Jan 2010)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=548 (25 Aug 2009)

Adams County, Iowa IA, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Adams County, Iowa IA, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=7118 (13 Nov 2008)

Cemeteries in or near Adams County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=7118&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (9 Dec 2008)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Adams County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Adams County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IA/Adams/ (8 Jan 2010)

Adams County, Iowa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams_County,_Iowa (4 Aug 2010)

Iowa Ghost Towns - Adams County [Iowa Ghost Towns]
http://iowaghosttowns.com/adamscounty.html (19 Jul 2008)

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Surveys in Adams County

1 Survey, 5 Ranges, 14 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Adams County. You can navigate to any of the 14 survey townships that overlap Adams County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Adams County

12 Townships

Carl	Colony	Douglas	Grant
Jasper	Lincoln	Mercer	Nodaway
Prescott	Quincy	Union	Washington

Cities of Adams County

5 Cities, 14 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Brooks	Carbon (city)	Carl	Corning (city)
Dickieville	Icarid (historical u.p.)	Iveyville	Lenox (city)
Lincoln Center	Mercer	Mount Etna	Nevinville
Nodaway (city)	Prescott (city)	Queen City (historical u.p.)	Quincy
Strand	Stringtown	Williamson

Cemeteries of Adams County

31 Cemeteries, 4 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Baldwin	Bohemian National	Brooks	Calvary
Carl	Evergreen	Forest Hill	Homan
Icarian	Lincoln Center	Methodist Grove	Mount Etna
Mount Pleasant	Mount Zion	Mt. Etna (*)	Mt. Pleasant (*)
Mt. Zion (*)	Nodaway	Oak Hill	Oakland
Old Brooks	Old Evergreen	Old Mount Etna	Old Mt. Etna (*)
Old Queen City	Prairie Rose	Queen City	Quincy
Rose Hill	Salem	Strand	Stringtown
Summit	Thompson	Walnut Grove

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