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Adams

Ghost town · Christian County, Kentucky

Dawson Springs quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1911, 1:62,500)
Dawson Springs quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1911, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Adams is a ghost town in Christian County, Kentucky. It is one of 24 former communities in Christian County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 14th among the 101 Kentucky counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Adams as a historical populated place on the Dawson Springs SE topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 37.0714° N, 87.5615° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleDawson Springs SE
Elevation623 ft
Nearest living townCrofton, KY
Distance to it4.6 miles
GNIS feature ID2742874
Coordinates37.07144, -87.56151

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Adams today, aerial view
Dawson Springs quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1911, 1:62,500)

Left: Dawson Springs quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1911, 1:62,500), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Adams is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Crofton, KY (population 690), about 4.6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 623 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Adams?

Adams is in Christian County, Kentucky, at 37.0714, -87.5615.

How many ghost towns are in Christian County?

Christian County, Kentucky has 24 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-06.