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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.

Worden within Yellowstone County

Population over time

3 figures

Worden 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.

YearPeople Change
2000506
2010577+71 (+14%)
2020582+5 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

32 since 1996

Regional 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/undetermined24
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreYellowstone CountyEND OF 18 N.
1 September 2016Natural50 acresSouthern Land OfficeCHICKEN
23 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresSouthern Land OfficeINTERSTATE 94
21 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Land OfficeHAY RAIL
1 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresYellowstone CountyS 24TH RD
1 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouthern Land OfficeBAILER
1 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresSouthern Land OfficeHORSESHOE
1 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Land OfficeMM 16

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yellowstone County

Storms near this place

41 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1999Thunderstorm WindWorden$5,000Wind 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 2025Thunderstorm WindWorden-Tree limbs down and small objects thrown around.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWorden-Fifty knt wind reported.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWorden-Mesonet station Huntley E .
August 2019HailWorden-Winds were estimated in excess of 60 mph. The combination of the wind and hail blew out several windows.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindWorden-The wind and hail blew out several windows.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindWorden-A thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was estimated just west of Worden.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindWorden-Numerous tree limbs were broken.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWorden-A wind gust of 84 mph was reported in Worden.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindWorden-Numerous tree branches were knocked down.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindWorden-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 2007HailWorden-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 2006Thunderstorm WindWorden-8 foot tall and 3 inch diameter aluminum boom snapped in half.
May 2005HailWorden-Rural Northern Yellowstone County, east side of the Bull Mountains
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWorden-Trees down
July 1998Funnel CloudWorden-A 911 operator reported a funnel cloud two miles west of Worden.
May 2020HailWorden-no account filed
July 2020HailWorden-no account filed
June 2019HailWorden-no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindWorden-no account filed
August 2019HailWorden-no account filed
May 2018HailWorden-no account filed
May 2018HailWorden-no account filed
May 2018HailWorden-no account filed
August 2013HailWorden-no account filed
June 2011HailWorden-no account filed
August 2011HailWorden-no account filed
May 2007HailWorden-no account filed
May 2007HailWorden-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWorden-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWorden-no account filed
May 2005HailWorden-no account filed
May 2005HailWorden-no account filed
August 2004HailWorden-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWorden-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWorden-no account filed
May 2000HailWorden-no account filed
July 2000HailWorden-no account filed
July 1998HailWorden-no account filed
January 1997FloodWorden-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindWorden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yellowstone 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
Ballantine1.1 miles16
Knox2.3 miles16
Mann2.6 miles16
Newton5.6 miles16
Nibbe7.3 miles16
Anita7.4 miles16
Huntley8.5 miles17
Shepherd9.7 miles17

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 WordenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q587214The 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.