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Worthington, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Worthington City. It lies in ZIP code area 56187. The Survey maps it on the Worthington South quadrangle. 13,947 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,591 feet above sea level.

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Worthington within Nobles County

On record in Worthington

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 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Worthington grew from 12,764 to 13,947 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
201012,764
202013,947+1,183 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

Storms near this place

53 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Worthington in 53 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 24 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 2 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
August 2004Thunderstorm WindWorthington$1,000,000Thunderstorm winds blew parts of the roofs off a junior high school building and an apartment building, and overturned a semi truck. The winds caused widespread tree damage, including several large trees uprooted or blown down. Tree debris blocked several roads, and made the golf course at the country club unusable. Power lines were blown down and other lines were knocked down by falling tree debris, causing power outages. Tree debris also damaged several vehicles and buildings. At least one garage was destroyed by the winds. Several signs, including large billboards, were blown down. The winds damaged crops, especially corn, but the amount of crop damage could not be determined.
August 1994Tornado (F1)Worthington$500,000Several buildings on two farmsteads were destroyed. A number of hogs were killed and trees and power lines were blown down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindWorthington$300,000Thunderstorm winds of unknown speed caused widespread tree damage, blew down a 50 thousand bushel steel grain bin, destroyed a barn and a hog building, and blew over two tractor-semitrailers. The winds also caused undetermined crop damage.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindWorthington$50,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees blown down. One tree fell through the roof and top two floors of a home.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWorthington$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew a semi off Interstate 90, and also caused tree damage, including several trees blown down.
June 2020Flash FloodWorthington$5,000One vehicle became stalled in high water, with six reports of street flooding in the city. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
May 2003LightningWorthington$5,000Lightning struck a large tree, destroying the tree. The lightning also damaged appliances in at least two homes, and caused a power outage over a small area.
July 2001LightningWorthington$2,000Lightning struck and split a large tree. Most of the tree fell and damaged siding on a house, but just missed a parked car.
May 2022HailWorthington-Hail was mostly pea-sized, but a few stones were as large as quarters. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
May 2022HailWorthington-Hail varied between quarter and golf ball size.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindWorthington-A large tree was blown down across a road by thunderstorm winds.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWorthington-Wind gusts broke off a small tree.
June 2020Flash FloodWorthington-Up to two feet of water was reported over Marine Avenue near the high school.
October 2020HailWorthington-Hail up to quarter size fell for about 10 seconds. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindWorthington-Measured at the airport in Worthington, MN.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindWorthington-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several large limbs blown down.
October 2013HailWorthington-Large hail damaged vehicles. The amount of damage was not known.
May 2012Tornado (EF0)Worthington-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWorthington-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees blown down.
May 2009HailWorthington-Large hail covered the ground.
July 2009HailWorthington-Large hail dented vehicles and cracked windshields. The amount of damage was not known.
April 2006Flash FloodWorthington-Heavy rainfall of 2 to 4 inches caused flooding of roads, basements, and other low areas as storm sewers backed up. Several vehicles stalled on flooded roads.
June 2005Flash FloodWorthington-Heavy rain caused flooding of several streets, with water 3 feet deep at one intersection.
September 2005Flash FloodWorthington-Heavy rain caused widespread street flooding, with basement flooding also reported. Water was two to three feet deep on some roads, and numerous vehicles stalled.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWorthington-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. The amount of damage was not known.
August 2004Flash FloodWorthington-Heavy rain caused flooding of streets and other low areas with roads up to three feet under water.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindWorthington-A Thunderstorm wind gust was measured by automatic RWIS (road weather information system) equipment.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindWorthington-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. Numerous limbs were down, some on cars and houses. Some trees on the east side of town were uprooted.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWorthington-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWorthington-Thunderstorm winds tore the roof and most of the outside walls off a 40 by 108 foot feeder pig barn.
June 2001Flash FloodWorthington-Flash flooding resulting from very heavy rain flooded streets, small streams, culverts, and other low places. Some flooding of basements also occurred.
July 1995HailWorthington-Hail caused considerable crop damage with about 10,000 acres of corn and soybeans affected.
August 2025HailWorthington-no account filed
August 2022HailWorthington-no account filed
April 2021HailWorthington-no account filed
September 2019HailWorthington-no account filed
September 2019HailWorthington-no account filed
September 2015HailWorthington-no account filed
October 2013HailWorthington-no account filed
September 2012Thunderstorm WindWorthington-no account filed
May 2004HailWorthington-no account filed
May 2004HailWorthington-no account filed
July 2002HailWorthington-no account filed
July 2002HailWorthington-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWorthington-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWorthington-no account filed
April 2000HailWorthington-no account filed
July 2000HailWorthington-no account filed
July 2000HailWorthington-no account filed
June 1998HailWorthington-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindWorthington-no account filed
June 1994HailWorthington-no account filed
June 1994HailWorthington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nobles 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
Org4.0 miles8
Reading8.5 miles8
Brewster8.7 miles8
Round Lake8.7 miles7
Bigelow9.3 miles8
Rushmore10.8 miles8
Ransom11.7 miles8
Pfingsten13.4 miles7

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 Q988914The 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 654391. 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.

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.