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Worth, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Standish Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48650. The Survey maps it on the Standish quadrangle.

Worth within Arenac County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Worth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 222 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 burning17
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
23 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARENAC 04
31 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMT FOREST TOWNSHIP FD 0000096 - 2019
26 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPINCONNING-FRASER FD 0000184 - 2019
12 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPINCONNING-FRASER FD 0000180 - 2019
15 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined19 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBAY 01
13 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSTANDISH FIRE AUTHORITY 0000063 - 2019
1 May 2001Arson/incendiarism26 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 1994Debris and open burning18 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arenac 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: 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
Mk Perlberg Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Arenac County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Worth in 1 storm report in 2012: 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
May 2012HailWorth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Arenac 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
Saganing2.9 miles10
Whites Beach4.0 miles10
Standish4.0 miles10
Pine River5.7 miles10
Arenac7.9 miles10
Sterling8.0 miles10
Morres Junction9.1 miles10
Omer10.3 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1616826. 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.