Adams is a
historic community
A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given g ...
located in
Armstrong County, Pennsylvania
Armstrong County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,558. The county seat is Kittanning. The county was organized on March 12, 1800, from parts of Allegheny, Westmoreland and Lycom ...
. It is near the
Allegheny River
The Allegheny River ( ; ; ) is a tributary of the Ohio River that is located in western Pennsylvania and New York (state), New York in the United States. It runs from its headwaters just below the middle of Pennsylvania's northern border, nor ...
.
Sources
* Platt, William G. (1879). Report of Progress in
Armstrong County.
* Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 2nd series, H5, lxvill, 388 p. geol map. scale 1 in.=2 mi.
Adams, Pennsylvania Geographic Names Information System,
U.S. Geological Survey.
Populated places in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania
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