Worthville, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Worthville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30233. It stands on Baker Branch. The Survey maps it on the Worthville quadrangle.

Worthville within Butts County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Worthville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

235 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 235 fires within 5 miles of Worthville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 651 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 28 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 burning	133
Arson/incendiarism	28
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Smoking	15
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Natural	9
Recreation and ceremony	9

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-BUTTS-001
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019JASPER001
15 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butts County

Storms near this place

10 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Worthville in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthville	$35,000	FOX 5 Television of Atlanta relayed a report of strong thunderstorm downburst winds that caused damage in the Lake Jackson area in the far eastern part of Butts county along the Jasper county line. Several large trees and power lines were down with at least one tree on the home with roof damage.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthville	$8,000	The Butts County Emergency Manager reported a few trees blown down along and near Highway 36 from Jackson northeast to the near the county line.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthville	$8,000	The Butts County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down across the county from northern half into the southeastern portion.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthville	$5,000	The Butts County 911 center reported several trees blown down along Highway 36 including near Keys Ferry Road.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthville	$2,000	Emergency Manager reported two trees down near the Butts and Newton county line.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthville	$2,000	The Butts County 911 center reported a tree blown down onto power lines along Southern Shores Road.
February 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthville	$2,000	The Butts county 911 center reported 2 trees down, one on a power line.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthville	$1,000	Tree down at Keys Ferry and Peoples Rd .
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Worthville	$1,000	A tree was downed onto a power line on Strickland Pasture Rd and Wilson Rd.
February 2025	Tornado (EF1)	Worthville	-	An EF1 tornado with maximum winds of 100 to 105 mph touched down in northeastern Butts County February 15, 2025 at 5:16AM EST. The tornado spun up within a strong line of storms moving rapidly eastward across northern GA early in the morning hours. The Tornado first touched down in a wooded region west of Winding Way road located west of Hwy 36. The tornado crossed Winding Way snapping and uprooting trees including one onto a home causing severe damage to the home. The tornado continued ENE reaching maximum intensity as it crossed Keys Ferry Road snapping and uprooting numerous trees. Additionally, approximately a dozen homes along Keys Ferry road sustained damage either directly from the wind or from falling trees consistent with mid and high end EF1 winds. Several homes had portions of the roof blown off while others were missing shingles. Several homes with trees on them sustained more significant damage. The tornado continued ENE crossing Walthall Road snapping and uprooting trees before reaching HWY 36 where one business sustained roof damage. The tornado continued eastward crossing Martin Road snapping trees and through an uninhabited area north of Haley Road snapping trees. Coincidentally, the area along Hwy 36 eastward through Martin road to the edge of Lake Jackson is the same area hit by the January 2023 tornado and damage from that tornado was still very evident among the new tornado damage. The tornado began to weaken as it crossed Henry Higgins Road and Haley road while still snapping and uprooting some trees. A home was damaged along Henry Higgins road from a tree. The tornado damage became more sporadic as it crossed Jackson Lake into Newton County where trees were downed in a wooded region along Mitchell Road. The tornado crossed the lake again knocking over a few trees near hwy 212 before lifting as it reached Blue Herron Dr.

Every storm recorded in Butts 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fincherville	2.2 miles	11
Stark	4.0 miles	12
McMichael Crossroads	4.5 miles	12
Pepperton	6.8 miles	12
Jackson	7.0 miles	12
Iron Springs Crossroads	7.2 miles	12
Bibb (historical)	7.3 miles	12
Jenkinsburg	7.6 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326600. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.