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Worden, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48178. The Survey maps it on the South Lyon quadrangle.

Worden within Washtenaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

16 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Worden between 2018 and 2020, burning about 16 acres 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/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSALEM TOWNSHIP FD 190379 - 2019
18 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSALEM TOWNSHIP FD 190403 - 2019
25 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSALEM TOWNSHIP FD 0000312 - 2018
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREEN OAK TOWNSHIP FD 0000554 - 2018
6 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUPERIOR TOWNSHIP FD 0000186 - 2019
6 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUPERIOR TOWNSHIP FD 0000187 - 2019
6 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSALEM TOWNSHIP FD 190161 - 2019
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUPERIOR TOWNSHIP FD 0812287 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washtenaw 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 Worden: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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
Washtenaw County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Washtenaw Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washtenaw County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Worden in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWorden-Tree reported down on the road.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindWorden-Trees reported down.
June 2023HailWorden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washtenaw 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
Emery2.8 miles22
Brookville3.6 miles24
Salem3.7 miles24
Frain Lake4.3 miles24
Dixboro5.2 miles22
Northfield5.3 miles22
Barton Hills8.0 miles17
Geddes8.4 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1616818. 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.