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Worth, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Middlefork Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64499. The Survey maps it on the Grant City quadrangle. 65 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 922 feet above sea level.

Worth within Worth County

Population over time

2 figures

Worth grew from 63 to 65 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
201063
202065+2 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Worth between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,032 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
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking2

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
31 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 June 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 May 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 May 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2002Debris and open burning200 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2002Debris and open burning300 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 April 2013Debris and open burning30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 April 2013Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worth County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Worth: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Worth County

Storms near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Worth in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 10 hail, 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2005Tornado (F1)Worth$175,000Tornado crossed into Worth county from Gentry county 1 mile south of Worth and then tracked northeast into Harrison county 4 miles northeast of Allendale. Intermittent F0 damage to trees and power lines was observed. However...F1 damage to two farmsteads were observed with numerous outbuildings destroyed. Chickens were killed and a 4" by 6" post was driven through a pickup truck.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindWorth-Power lines downed with power outages west of Worth.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWorth-Power poles were snapped near Worth.
August 2004Tornado (F0)Worth-Brief tornado touchdown in open field. No damage or injuries.
May 2000HailWorth-Citizens reported dime size hail and 6-inch diameter tree limbs down.
May 1998HailWorth-Dime-size hail was reported by the county sheriff's office 2 miles west of Worth.
June 2017HailWorth-no account filed
April 2010HailWorth-no account filed
June 2008HailWorth-no account filed
June 2008HailWorth-no account filed
May 2005HailWorth-no account filed
June 2004HailWorth-no account filed
April 2002HailWorth-no account filed
April 2001HailWorth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Worth 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
Prohibition City2.4 miles12
Oxford5.2 miles11
Mount Waller5.8 miles12
Grant City6.0 miles12
Denver6.5 miles12
Isadora9.2 miles12
Allendale9.9 miles12
Irena10.4 miles13

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 WorthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q954979The 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 730254. 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.