Adams · Berkshire County
Check an Address in Adams
The Town Around It
Whatever the address, these are Adams's numbers. Each one opens the full record.
Flood, Town-wide
Flood Map Unavailable
The federal flood map for this town has not been digitised, so flood risk here is unmapped; that is not the same as absent. Ask the town's building department before relying on any flood answer.
9 federal flood-insurance claims have been filed from this town since 1994 (most recent: 2018). Counted by the claim's self-reported city, so this can undercount. History, not a prediction.
Dams in Town
Anthony Dam · Hoxie Brook
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Arnold Dam · Pecks Brook
Significant hazard potential, a failure would be likely to cause property damage but not loss of life. Not a statement about the dam's condition or the chance it fails.
Fisk Brook Dam · Pecks Brook
Significant hazard potential, a failure would be likely to cause property damage but not loss of life. Not a statement about the dam's condition or the chance it fails.
Greylock Glen Pond Dam · Tributary to Pecks Brook
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Greylock Glen Pond No. 1 Dam · Tributary to Hoosic River
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Greylock Greenhouse Dam · Tributary to Pecks Brook
Significant hazard potential, a failure would be likely to cause property damage but not loss of life. Not a statement about the dam's condition or the chance it fails.
Peck's Brook Dam · Peck's Brook
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
Plunkett Dam No. 2 · Hoosic River
Not classified, no hazard potential classification has been published for this dam. This is not a finding that it poses no hazard.
- …and 3 more on the state inventory.
The Cleanup Registry
Reported releases of oil or hazardous material, from the state's public registry. Being listed means a release was reported, not that it remains: the status letters run from active cleanup to closed. An empty list is a registry fact, not a clean bill of environmental health.
- FORMER BERKSHIRE MILLS COMPLEX · 7 HOOSAC STREET · state file 1-0020667 (TIERII)
- FORMER GASOLINE STATION · 26 COMMERCIAL STREET · state file 1-0021307 (TIERII)
- FORMER AL'S SERVICE CENTER · 95 COMMERCIAL STREET · state file 1-0021492 (TIERII)
- FORMER CONNIES CLEANERS · 35 RICHMOND LN · state file 1-0015563 (TIERII)
- GREYLOCK ICE · 4 ORCUTT AVE · state file 1-0016728 (TIER1D)
- FORMER CURTIS PAPER MILL · 115 HOWLAND AVENUE · state file 1-0018180 (TIER1D)
- FORMER GREYLOCK ICE & FUEL · 4 ORCUTT AVENUE · state file 1-0019174 (TIER1D)
- FMR GREYLOCK ICE AND FUEL · 4 ORCUTT AVE. · state file 1-0019175 (TIER1D)
- …and 2 more in the registry.
6 of the town's closed cleanups carry a recorded land-use restriction: the deed limits what the property may be used for. Each links to its state file above; ask for the restriction's text before buying one.
Water at the Address
Public water systems in town: ADAMS FIRE DISTRICT. Service areas have edges; an address outside them is on a well. Sewer treatment exists (ADAMS SEWER DEPT); beyond its lines, septic. Bedrock well yield in town rates "average specific yield".
The Busiest Roads
- BURLINGAME HILL15,897 vehicles/day (2016 count)
- HOWLAND AVENUE (Route-8)15,271 vehicles/day (2024 count)
- COMMERCIAL STREET (Route-8)14,697 vehicles/day (2019 count)
- COLUMBIA STREET (Route-8)13,990 vehicles/day (2024 count)
- PARK STREET (Route-8)11,390 vehicles/day (2024 count)
The state counts major roads on a rotating schedule; each figure carries its own count year, and a quiet lane's absence from this list is not zero cars.
Zoning & Old Houses
No machine-readable zoning reference is on record for this town; the town clerk has the bylaw. 800 properties in town appear in the state's historic inventory; listed buildings can carry review requirements on exterior work.
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Sources
- FEMA flood layer via MassGIS; FEMA flood-insurance claims. Checked 2026-08-05.
- Office of Dam Safety inventory; federal inventory for federally regulated dams. Checked 2026-08-05.
- MassDEP release and land-use-restriction registries (Chapter 21E). Checked 2026-08-05.
- MassDEP service registries; federal drinking-water system inventory; USGS well mapping. Checked 2026-08-05.
- MassDOT traffic count programme. Figures through the 2024 count.
- Town zoning references; Massachusetts historic inventory. Checked 2026-08-05.
"Figures through" is the period the publisher's data describes; "checked" is only when we last asked. The full sourcing: sources and method.