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City of Adams, Minnesota

This is the city and community web for Adams Minnesota, a vibrant community of 800 people on the prairie just 5 miles north of the Minnesota-Iowa state line and about 14 miles east of Austin, MN in Mower County. The city is 12 miles off Interstate 90 southwest of Rochester, MN and only about 100 mi south of the Twin Cities - Minneapolis & St. Paul.

This web is a growing collection of information and links about the organizations, businesses, and people who portray Adams' theme, "Pride of the Prairie." Adams is on the Shooting Star Scenic Byway (MN Hwy 56, mile posts 1-30) with its accompanying 20+ mile bicycle & hiking trail, the Shooting Star Recreational Trail, which mostly follows abandoned railroad tracks adjacent to Hwy 56. Slow down and enjoy the vestiges of the native tall-grass prairie flowers, grasses, and herbs the pioneers encountered a hundred years ago when they settled this area.

Adams is one of four cities cooperating in an unusual joint-powers multi-community entity called Prairie Visions. This organization has been very active in encouraging the construction of the recreational trail, the scenic byway designation and in conservation of the area native flora and fauna.

Recreation

The playground area at the Adams City Park The Adams City Park & Campground is 40 acres with a large cabana other covered picnic tables, fireplaces, restrooms, basketball & volleyball courts, a playground and more. A "no-charge" campground of eight sites with electricity and a seasonal port-a-potty is open for short-term camping. Cedar River Country Club is a well-groomed 18-hole golf course just one mile west of town. The community's swimming pool is on the west side of town next to the athletic fields and just across the highway from the city park.

Medical & Nursing Care

Adams Health Care Center is a full service nursing facility plus assisted care units and residential apartments all situated with a direct corridor into the local medical clinic which is part of the Austin Medical Center, a unit of Mayo Health Care System.

Modern Utilities

Excellent services for ALL modern utilities: water, sewer, trash, electrical, natural gas, telephone, cellular phone, cable, high speed Internet are available at reasonable rates.

Education

Southland Public Schools (ISD500) is a K-12 consolidated area school system. Grades 6-12 are in Adams and grades K-5 are in Rose Creek. The communities of Dexter, Elkton and Taopi also are part of the consolidated district. A full program of early childhood education and child care is also provided in a separate facility in Adams.

Sacred Heart is the parochial grade school in Adams that serves approximately 100 children.

Other Government Sites

The Minnesota State Capitol is about 100 miles north in St. Paul. The county seat of Mower County is 15 miles NW in Austin, population approx. 25,000 which is about 60% of the total county population. LeRoy is a nearby small city 12 miles East. Rochester, the 3rd largest city of Minnesota, is just 35 miles North.

Cattle Grazing This region has some of the world's most fertile land that produces high yields of corn and soybeans used to feed livestock and produce bio-fuels. Electrical power is also produced by 100+ nearby 300' tall wind turbines.

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