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Adams

Adams County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 65,737. Its county seat is . Adams County is part of the Quincy, IL– Micropolitan Statistical Area.
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  • Type: County with 65,700 residents
  • Description: county in Illinois, United States
  • Also known as: “Adams County”, “Adams County, IL”, and “Adams County, Illinois”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Quincy Regional Airport.

Aerodrome
is a city-owned airport 12 miles east of , a city in Adams County, , United States. It is used for general aviation but also sees Southern Airways Express flights to and , a service which is subsidized by the federal government's Essential Air Service program at a cost of $1,956,856.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Paloma.

Hamlet
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, Illinois is an unincorporated community in , Adams County, , . Its main auxiliary route is U.S. Route 24 and is within two miles of , another rural community.

Adams

Latitude
39.9788° or 39° 58′ 44″ north
Longitude
-91.211° or 91° 12′ 40″ west
Population
65,700
Elevation
741 feet (226 metres)
Open location code
86FCXQHQ+GH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316952559
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4232512
Wiki­data ID
Q108798
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Adams” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Adams County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة آدمز”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه آدمز، إلينوي”
  • Armenian: “Ադամսի շրջան”
  • Asturian: “condáu d’Adams”
  • Basque: “Adams konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Adams County, Illinois”
  • Bavarian: “Adams County”
  • Belarusian: “Адамс (акруга, Ілінойс)”
  • Belarusian: “Адамс”
  • Bengali: “অ্যাডামস কাউন্টি”
  • Bishnupriya: “অ্যাডামস কাউন্টি, ইলিনয়স”
  • Bishnupriya: “অ্যাডামস কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Адамс”
  • Catalan: “comtat d’Adams”
  • Cebuano: “Adams County”
  • Chechen: “Адамс (гуо, Иллинойс)”
  • Chechen: “Адамс”
  • Chinese: “Adams Kūn”
  • Chinese: “亚当斯县”
  • Chinese: “亞當斯縣”
  • Czech: “Adams County”
  • Dutch: “Adams County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Adams”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Adams”
  • Estonian: “Adamsi maakond”
  • Finnish: “Adamsin piirikunta”
  • French: “comté d’Adams”
  • French: “Comté d’Adams”
  • Georgian: “ადამსის ოლქი”
  • German: “Adams County”
  • Gilaki: “آدامز ٚ شأرستان (ايلينؤی)”
  • Gilaki: “آدامز ٚ شأرستان”
  • Greek: “κομητεία Άνταμς”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Άνταμς”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז אדמס”
  • Hungarian: “Adams megye”
  • Indonesian: “Adams County, Illinois”
  • Indonesian: “Adams County”
  • Irish: “Contae Adams”
  • Italian: “contea di Adams”
  • Italian: “Contea di Adams”
  • Japanese: “アダムズ郡”
  • Korean: “애덤스군”
  • Latin: “Adams Comitatus”
  • Low German: “Adams County”
  • Mazanderani: “آدامز شهرستان (ایلینوی)”
  • Mazanderani: “آدامز شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ā-dŏng Gông”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Adams Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Adams Kūn”
  • Newari: “एदम्स काउन्ति, इलिनोइ”
  • Newari: “एदम्स काउन्ति”
  • Northern Frisian: “Adams County”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Adams County i Illinois”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Adams County”
  • Norwegian: “Adams County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان آدامز، ایلینوی”
  • Persian: “شهرستان آدامز”
  • Persian: “شهرستان ادامز”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Adams”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Adams”
  • Romanian: “Adams County”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Adams, Illinois”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Adams”
  • Russian: “Адамс”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Adams”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Adams County”
  • Serbian: “Округ Адамс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Adams County, Illinois”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Adams County”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آدامز بؤلگه‌سی، ایلینوی”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Adams (Illinois)”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Adams”
  • Swedish: “Adams County, Illinois”
  • Swedish: “Adams County”
  • Tatar: “Адамс (округ, Иллинойс)”
  • Tatar: “Адамс”
  • Turkish: “Adams County, IL”
  • Turkish: “Adams County, Ill.”
  • Turkish: “Adams County, Illinois”
  • Turkish: “Adams County”
  • Turkish: “Adams ilçesi, IL”
  • Turkish: “Adams ilçesi, Ill.”
  • Turkish: “Adams ilçesi, Illinois”
  • Turkish: “Adams ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Адамс”
  • Urdu: “ایڈمز کاؤنٹی، الینوائے”
  • Urdu: “ایڈمز کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Adams”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Adams, Illinois”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Adams”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Adams, Illinois”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Adams”
  • Welsh: “Adams County, Illinois”
  • Welsh: “Adams County”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایڈمز کاؤنٹی”

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