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Worthington, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Flatwoods-Russell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41183. It lies near Kennedy Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Ironton quadrangle. 1,501 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 561 feet above sea level.

Worthington within Greenup County

Population over time

2 figures

Worthington fell from 1,609 to 1,501 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
20101,609
20201,501-108 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

266 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 266 fires within 5 miles of Worthington between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,135 acres in total. None started naturally. 62 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 burning104
Arson/incendiarism62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Equipment and vehicle use15
Recreation and ceremony11
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Other causes7
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresWayne National ForestFALSE ALARM 09/09
7 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distribution11 acresWayne National ForestWIND FIRE
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWayne National ForestJANIE FIRE
5 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestBAILEY
28 September 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 1998Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWayne National ForestST. MARY'S CHURCH #1
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWayne National ForestIRONTON #1 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenup County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Worthington: 1 plant, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Haverhill Plant & DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Ironton Plant Number 85ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Greenup County

Storms near this place

22 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Worthington in 22 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 hail, 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWorthington$15,000The scoreboard at Raceland High School was damaged due to strong winds.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWorthington$15,000Numerous areas of tree and power line damage was observed in the Raceland area. These included Armada Boulevard, Caroline Road, Rams Boulevard, Brown Street, Belmont Road, Meadow Avenue, and Pond Run Road. A few trees fell onto cars and roofs of homes.
March 2012HailWorthington$10,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWorthington$3,000Multiple trees were downed in the town of Worthington, including at Collins Avenue and 3rd Avenue.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindWorthington$1,500In Worthington, trees were blown down along Prospect Avenue and McCloud Drive.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWorthington$1,000Multiple trees were downed near the city of Worthington.
December 2018FloodWorthington$1,000The Raceland-Worthington Tunnel was closed due to high water.
April 2017LightningWorthington$1,000A house was hit by lightning. No significant damage occurred.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindWorthington$500In Worthington, multiple trees were blown down on Grandview Drive.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindWorthington$500A few trees were knocked down onto Williams Avenue in Raceland.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWorthington$500Trees were blown down along Stewart Avenue and Pond Run Road.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindWorthington$500Numerous trees were blown down on Oakmont Manor.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWorthington$250A tree was downed at Caroline Road and Greenup Avenue in Raceland.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWorthington$250In Raceland, a tree was blown down onto a local road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWorthington$200A tree was blown down across Riverside Boulevard at 4th Avenue.
May 2025Flash FloodWorthington-Flooding was observed at the Pond Run Tunnel and on Route 693 near Horsley Cemetary Road. An apartment on Valley Drive also flooded.
April 2025Flash FloodWorthington-Flooding was observed in the little under tunnel near the trainyard of Greenup Avenue.
July 2025Flash FloodWorthington-In the town of Worthington, a vehicle was flooded after driving into a viaduct.
September 2025Flash FloodWorthington-Flooding was observed in several spots, including at the small tunnel of Caboose Lane and Pond Run Road in Raceland, Red Devil Lane and Diederich Boulevard in Russell, Bellefonte Alley and Ferry Street in Russell, Argillite Road and Turley Avenue in Flatwoods, and near Washington Street and Powell Lane in Flatwoods.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWorthington-Trees were blown down onto power lines.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWorthington-Large branches were broken off.
December 2005HailWorthington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenup 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
Melrose0.2 miles17
Raceland0.6 miles17
West Russell1.0 miles17
Russell Heights1.5 miles17
Poplar Highlands1.6 miles18
Flatwoods1.8 miles17
Raceland Junction2.0 miles18
Russell2.6 miles17

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 WorthingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969561The 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 507152. 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.