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Worthington Springs, Florida

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Worthington Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32054. It stands on New River. The Survey maps it on the Worthington Springs quadrangle. 378 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 118 feet above sea level.

Worthington Springs within Union County

Then and now

1954 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Worthington Springs, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Worthington Springs, surveyed 1954

Population over time

3 figures

Worthington Springs grew from 193 to 378 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000193
2010181-12 (-6%)
2020378+197 (+109%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Worthington Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 880 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 9 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning45
Railroad operations and maintenance30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA -4919 FIRE
17 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 1999Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSW 85TH TRAIL (63)
30 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2011Debris and open burning350 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFERN POND (63)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Dana2.3 miles8
Dukes2.7 miles8
Miller3.5 miles8
Brown4.5 miles8
Browns Still5.2 miles8
Danville5.7 miles9
Lake Butler7.8 miles9
Cliftonville8.1 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Worthington SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2155957The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 293538. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.