[4] According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of 26.99 square miles (69.9 km2), all land.

[5] Its only town is Pine Village in the northwest part of the township, though a tiny hamlet named Chatterton stood southeast of Pine Village in the early part of the 20th century.

[6] Big Pine Creek enters the township from Benton County to the north and passes just to the northwest of Pine Village and continues southwest, emptying into the Wabash River near Attica.

[13] Adams Township is part of the Metropolitan School District of Warren County.

[14] Adams Township has a trustee who administers rural fire protection and ambulance service, provides relief to the poor, manages cemetery care, and performs farm assessment, among other duties.