Worth, Illinois
27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Worth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60482. The Survey maps it on the Palos Park quadrangle. 10,970 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresWorth grew from 10,789 to 10,970 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 10,789 | |
| 2020 | 10,970 | +181 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 27 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1928 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Worth in 2005, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 June 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Worth: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Worth Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Worth in 11 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2003 | Lightning | Worth | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worth | - | Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph. Small tree limbs were blown down. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Worth | - | Penny size hail was reported in Worth. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worth | - | An 8 to 10 inch diameter tree limb was blown down blocking the roadway near 114th Street and New England Street. |
| December 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worth | - | Trees were blown down at 117th Street and Ridgeland. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Worth | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Worth | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Worth | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Worth | - | no account filed |
| September 2011 | Hail | Worth | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worth | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palos Hills | 1.1 miles | 27 | |
| Chicago Ridge | 1.3 miles | 27 | |
| Palos Heights | 1.5 miles | 27 | |
| Palos Park | 2.3 miles | 27 | |
| Oak Lawn | 2.5 miles | 27 | |
| Hickory Hills | 2.9 miles | 27 | |
| Hazel Green | 3.1 miles | 25 | |
| Crestwood | 3.1 miles | 27 |
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 Worth | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1972787 | The 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 421508. 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.











