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.
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.
Marion Springs Schoollisted 2018 · 0.1 miles away- Stoebener Barnlisted 1989 · 1.0 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 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.
- 1885 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:125000
- 1889 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Lone Star quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
25 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
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 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 41 |
| 10 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 191 |
| 19 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 39 |
| 23 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 11 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Douglas County | 30 |
| 11 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Douglas County | 29 |
| 9 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 45 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 16 |
| 8 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 28 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worden | $10,000 | Strong winds destroyed a barn near Worden. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Worden | - | Quarter sized hail reported. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Worden | - | Half dollar sized hail reported. |
| September 2021 | Flash Flood | Worden | - | Report of flash flood across N300 Road near West Fork Tauy Creek. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Worden | - | Quarter size hail reported. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Worden | - | Quarter size hail reported. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Worden | - | Nickel size hail was covering the ground. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worden | - | Tree limbs 3 to 4 inches in diameter were down. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Worden | - | 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worden | - | An emergency manager relayed a report from a storm chaser of 60 mph winds near Baldwin City. |
| May 2011 | Tornado (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 2015 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| November 2015 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Worden | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Globe | 3.5 miles | 17 | |
| Lone Star | 5.9 miles | 18 | |
| Pleasant Grove | 6.1 miles | 18 | |
| Baldwin City | 7.9 miles | 17 | |
| Vinland | 9.0 miles | 17 | |
| Clinton | 9.4 miles | 20 | |
| Sibleyville | 10.2 miles | 19 | |
| Broken Arrow Park | 11.4 miles | 19 |
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 Worden | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8034381 | 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 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.







