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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.

Worth within Cook County

Population over time

2 figures

Worth 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.

YearPeople Change
201010,789
202010,970+181 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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

1 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined1

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 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Worth PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

11 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2003LightningWorth$5,000no account filed
September 2011Thunderstorm WindWorth-Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph. Small tree limbs were blown down.
April 2010HailWorth-Penny size hail was reported in Worth.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindWorth-An 8 to 10 inch diameter tree limb was blown down blocking the roadway near 114th Street and New England Street.
December 2007Thunderstorm WindWorth-Trees were blown down at 117th Street and Ridgeland.
May 2024HailWorth-no account filed
May 2014HailWorth-no account filed
May 2014HailWorth-no account filed
May 2012HailWorth-no account filed
September 2011HailWorth-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWorth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cook 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
Palos Hills1.1 miles27
Chicago Ridge1.3 miles27
Palos Heights1.5 miles27
Palos Park2.3 miles27
Oak Lawn2.5 miles27
Hickory Hills2.9 miles27
Hazel Green3.1 miles25
Crestwood3.1 miles27

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 WorthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1972787The 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.