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Worthington, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Dodge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52078. The Survey maps it on the Dyersville East quadrangle. 382 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 919 feet above sea level.

Worthington within Dubuque County

Population over time

2 figures

Worthington fell from 401 to 382 between 2010 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
2010401
2020382-19 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Worthington: 14 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dyersville DiggingsLeadPast ProducerGalena
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Allen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bertling QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Deutmeyer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dzaboff QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gogel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Johns Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pins QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dubuque County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Worthington in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011HailWorthington$1,000,000Golf ball sized hail fell 1 mile north of Worthington, IA around 722 pm CDT April 3.
April 2006HailWorthington$10,000Radar data indicates a continuous swath of hail from the Delaware/Dubuque line.
September 2016Flash FloodWorthington$2,000The county emergency manager reported a couple of washed out roads in southwest Dubuque county from flooding.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWorthington-A large pine tree was blown down across a road near town.
July 2016Tornado (EF0)Worthington-Local law enforcement reported a brief tornado between Farley, Worthington, and Dyersville.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindWorthington-A few power poles were leaning over.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWorthington-Wind gusts were estimated to be 60 mph in Worthington, IA around 823 am June 19.
June 1999FloodWorthington-Torrential rain of 5 inches caused street flooding.
May 1998Tornado (F0)Worthington-no account filed
June 1998HailWorthington-no account filed
May 1997HailWorthington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dubuque 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
Dyersville6.1 miles12
Summit Village Dyersville Park6.1 miles12
Farley6.8 miles12
Mekee7.7 miles12
Cascade8.7 miles12
Pleasant Grove10.3 miles14
New Vienna10.5 miles12
Epworth10.5 miles14

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 WorthingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1811068The 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 463210. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.