• $50,000 average price for 1,000 sq. ft. home
• .07 adult crime rate per 1,000 population in 1995

• Average Temperatures:
  January—47.6°F   July—86.7°F
  March—58.0°F    September—77.8°F
  May—70.1°F        November—54.3°F
• Average Annual Precipitation:
  Rain—41inches    Snow—18inches

• Ohio River for boating, skiing and fishing
• Serpent Mound State Memorial
• Adams County Country Club, West Union, 9-hole, year-round golf course
• Hilltop Golf Course, near Manchester, 18-hole course
• Rudd’s Christmas Farm
• Mineral Springs Lake Resort for game fishing
• Shawnee State Park, eastern edge of Adams County
• Adams Lake State Park, north of West Union
• Woodland Altars, a camp, conference center & outdoor education center open for rental
• The Amish community offers bakeries, cheese shops, furniture craftsman and dairy farms

• Cincinnati, OH: 45 miles
• Louisville, KY: 103 miles
• Columbus, OH: 111 miles
• Cleveland, OH: 252 miles

• Adams County Fair, July
• Kinfolk Landing Days, Aug.
• Caramel Festival, Sept.
• Heritage Days, Sept.
• Archaeology Day Serpent Mound, Sept.
• Bentonville Harvest Festival, Sept.
• Old Timers Day Festival, Sept.
• Seaman Fall Fest, Sept.
• Wheat Ridge Annual Amish Consignment Auction,
• Cheese and Bake Sale, Sept.
• Old Thyme Country Herb Festival, Oct.
• Christmas at Lewis Mountain Farm, Dec.

• 1,000 BC: Mound builders left the Great Serpent Mound, a 1,335-foot effigy in the shape of a great, partially coiled snake
• 1790: Fort built and settled by surveyor Nathaniel Massie
• 1797: Became third county in what would later become the State of Ohio
• Late 1800s: Extensive hardwood forests provided lumber for railroad cross ties
• 1957: Site of 5th Annual World’s Plowing Match & Conservation Exhibition

Libraries

• Adams County Public Library