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Wortham, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Randolph Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63601. It stands on Hayden Creek. The Survey maps it on the Flat River quadrangle. 197 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Wortham within St. Francois County

Population over time

2 figures

Wortham fell from 275 to 197 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
2010275
2020197-78 (-28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 21 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Wortham between 1992 and 2020, burning about 193 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation261411-09432-09092020-1925
4 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 June 2016Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation137758-09401-06162016-1409
9 April 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178502-09401-04052019-1131
27 April 1993Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 April 1998Misuse of fire by a minor35 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Francois County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 54 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 54 workings within 5 miles of Wortham: 48 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Zinc, Copper. 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
Bonne Terre Quarry and MillMagnesiteProducer
Flat River Sub-DistrictLead, Zinc, SilverPast Producer1742
Leadwood MineLead, Copper, Zinc, Cadmium, Cobalt, NickelProducer1898, 1903
Leadwood PlantStoneProducer
Unknown - Clay KaolinKaolinPast Producer
Unknown - Lead - ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Central Lead Co. ShaftZinc, LeadPast Producer
Central Mining Co. MineLead, Copper, ZincProducer1893
Desloge MinesLead, CopperProducer1801

Every working recorded in St. Francois 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
Frankclay1.2 miles21
Mitchell1.5 miles21
Daytown1.8 miles21
Leadwood1.8 miles21
Davis1.8 miles21
Huntington2.0 miles21
Gumbo2.7 miles21
West Elvins3.5 miles21

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 WorthamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6168326The 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 756927. 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.