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Worden, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Willow Springs Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66006. The Survey maps it on the Lone Star quadrangle. It stands 1,089 feet above sea level.

Worden within Douglas County

On record in Worden

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

25 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Worden between 2015 and 2020, burning about 195 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4

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 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service41
10 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKansas Forest Service191
19 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service39
23 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2017Debris and open burning6.0 acresDouglas County30
11 April 2017Debris and open burning4.0 acresDouglas County29
9 March 2018Debris and open burning45 acresKansas Forest Service16
8 March 2015Debris and open burning60 acresKansas Forest Service28

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Worden in 20 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 14 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWorden$10,000Strong winds destroyed a barn near Worden.
September 2023HailWorden-Quarter sized hail reported.
September 2023HailWorden-Half dollar sized hail reported.
September 2021Flash FloodWorden-Report of flash flood across N300 Road near West Fork Tauy Creek.
August 2018HailWorden-Quarter size hail reported.
August 2018HailWorden-Quarter size hail reported.
March 2017HailWorden-Nickel size hail was covering the ground.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindWorden-Tree limbs 3 to 4 inches in diameter were down.
August 2017Flash FloodWorden-N400 road was washed out due to flash flooding. The town of Lone Star was reported flooded. Many county roads flooded in low lying areas.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindWorden-An emergency manager relayed a report from a storm chaser of 60 mph winds near Baldwin City.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Worden-A storm chaser witnessed a brief tornado touchdown just east of highway 56 and south of highway 59 in southern Douglas County. The tornado dissipated after 15 seconds and did no damage. The report was relayed by the County EM.
September 2015HailWorden-no account filed
November 2015HailWorden-no account filed
April 2014HailWorden-no account filed
April 2014HailWorden-no account filed
May 2011HailWorden-no account filed
May 2009HailWorden-no account filed
May 2009HailWorden-no account filed
July 2002HailWorden-no account filed
August 1999HailWorden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Globe3.5 miles17
Lone Star5.9 miles18
Pleasant Grove6.1 miles18
Baldwin City7.9 miles17
Vinland9.0 miles17
Clinton9.4 miles20
Sibleyville10.2 miles19
Broken Arrow Park11.4 miles19

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 WordenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8034381The 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 479499. 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.