Worden, Montana
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Huntley Project census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59088. The Survey maps it on the Worden quadrangle. 582 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,963 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresWorden grew from 506 to 582 between 2000 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 506 | |
| 2010 | 577 | +71 (+14%) |
| 2020 | 582 | +5 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1893 USGS Huntley quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Billings quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Worden quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Billings quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
32 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Worden between 1996 and 2020, burning about 2,675 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined | 24 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Yellowstone County | END OF 18 N. |
| 1 September 2016 | Natural | 50 acres | Southern Land Office | CHICKEN |
| 23 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.9 acres | Southern Land Office | INTERSTATE 94 |
| 21 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | HAY RAIL |
| 1 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Yellowstone County | S 24TH RD |
| 1 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Southern Land Office | BAILER |
| 1 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Southern Land Office | HORSESHOE |
| 1 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Land Office | MM 16 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
41 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Worden in 41 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 21 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worden | $5,000 | Wind gusts from a thunderstorm destroyed a 20 by 24 foot shed. The wind also twisted a round bale feeder and tore a chicken house door off. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worden | - | Tree limbs down and small objects thrown around. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worden | - | Fifty knt wind reported. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worden | - | Mesonet station Huntley E . |
| August 2019 | Hail | Worden | - | Winds were estimated in excess of 60 mph. The combination of the wind and hail blew out several windows. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worden | - | The wind and hail blew out several windows. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worden | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was estimated just west of Worden. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worden | - | Numerous tree limbs were broken. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worden | - | A wind gust of 84 mph was reported in Worden. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worden | - | Numerous tree branches were knocked down. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worden | - | Poplar trees two to three feet in diameter were snapped in half a couple of feet off the ground. Shingles were ripped off a home. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Worden | - | Poplar trees two to three feet in diameter were snapped in half a couple of feet above the ground. Shingles were also ripped off a home. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worden | - | 8 foot tall and 3 inch diameter aluminum boom snapped in half. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Worden | - | Rural Northern Yellowstone County, east side of the Bull Mountains |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worden | - | Trees down |
| July 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Worden | - | A 911 operator reported a funnel cloud two miles west of Worden. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worden | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worden | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worden | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worden | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worden | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Worden | - | no account filed |
| January 1997 | Flood | Worden | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worden | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Worden | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q587214 | The 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 778696. 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.
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.





