unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
Oklahoma
Oklahoma ( ; Choctaw language, Choctaw: , ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Texas to the south and west, Kansas to the north, Missouri to the northea ...
, United States. The population was 148 at the time of the 2020 census. It is approximately east-northeast of the county seat, Guymon.Culver, Galen. "Oklahoma’s Leaning Tower: The old Adams grain elevator is in a gravity defying, slow-motion fall." News4. August 18, 2017. Accessed December 10, 2017. The community is six miles north-northeast of
Optima Lake
Optima Lake was built to be a reservoir in Texas County, Oklahoma. The site is just north of Hardesty and east of Guymon in the Oklahoma Panhandle.
The earthen Optima Lake Dam (National ID # OK20510) was completed in by the United States A ...
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History
The post office opened June 14, 1930. The community was named for Jesse L. Adams, an engineer for the
Rock Island Railroad
The original Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW, sometimes called ''Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway'') was an American Class I railroad. It was also known as the Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, The Rock.
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National Register of Historic Places
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(NRHP). The community and its elevator were both established in 1926. The elevator was unusable from the 1980s, and was condemned because of the danger of its collapse. It was then burned down in 2018.