Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Adams, WI

Adams is a city in Adams County, Wisconsin, and the largest community in the county, with a population about three times that of the county seat, Friendship.

The 2020 census counted 1,761 people in Adams, and the 2010 census recorded 1,967 residents in 886 households.

Adams owes its existence to a land dispute: when Friendship landowners raised their prices in the 1880s, the Chicago and North Western Railway instead laid its tracks two miles south and built a new town.

Railroad workers building the line were housed in stacked boxcars, around which the town of Adams grew.

The railroad originally called the new depot Friendship, but because another stop on the line shared the name, passengers kept buying the wrong tickets.

To end the confusion, residents voted on a new name and chose Adams, honoring President John Adams, over the alternative Nottingham.

The rail line through Adams became part of the famous 400 route, named for the trains that covered the Chicago to Twin Cities run in about 400 minutes.

Adams covers just under 3 square miles in the sandy central plain of Wisconsin.

The Adams County Historical Society Museum preserves the region's history in Adams.

A few miles north of Adams near Friendship, Roche-A-Cri State Park protects ancient Native American petroglyphs and a rock outcrop with sweeping views of the central Wisconsin plain.