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Worley, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Worley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83876. It stands on Worley Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Worley quadrangle. 253 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,661 feet above sea level.

Worley within Kootenai County

Population over time

2 figures

Worley fell from 257 to 253 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
2010257
2020253-4 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

104 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Worley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 436 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Fireworks9
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use48 acresIdaho Department of LandsBITTER
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresMica Area OfficeCOTTONWOOD
30 September 2011Debris and open burning4.5 acresIdaho Department of LandsWILLIAMS ROAD
29 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Idaho AgencyLUDICROUS FIRE
28 September 2009Debris and open burning10 acresIdaho Department of LandsCOTTONWOOD
27 September 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresNorthern Idaho AgencyPLUMMER/FAIRFIELD
27 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsCOTTONWOOD RD
24 September 2007Debris and open burning4.7 acresNorthern Idaho AgencyA512

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kootenai County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Worley: 3 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension. 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
State Pit Bw 84 5Stone, DimensionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Plummer Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kootenai County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Worley in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 hail, 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWorley$300,000A microburst was thought to be responsible for snapping twenty consecutive power poles between the Setters substation and Highway 95 along Setters Road. It is inconclusive whether the initial wind gust snapped only a few poles or was the direct cause for damaging all the poles. It is speculated that a few poles broke in response to the microburst resulting in a domino effect to the remaining poles due to the absence of additional damage in the area.
September 1998WildfireWorley$20,000A 30 acre grass fire spread into timber land, closing Sunny Slope Road. Breezy winds helped carry the fire.
February 2025FloodWorley-State Highway 58 near US -95 was closed due to flooding.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindWorley-A trained spotter reported wind gusts of 66 mph from a severe thunderstorm.
June 2006HailWorley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kootenai 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
Mozart1.3 miles9
Ch'ach'alqw Landing6.4 miles10
Setters6.7 miles12
Rockford Bay7.5 miles14
Harrison7.9 miles10
Conkling Park8.4 miles10
Bellgrove9.2 miles14
Lacon9.5 miles10

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 WorleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1509745The 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 398386. 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.

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.