Worth Center, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Worth town. It lies in ZIP code area 13659. The Survey maps it on the Worth Center quadrangle.

Worth Center within Jefferson County

Then and now

1903 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Worth Center, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Worth Center, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1903 USGS Orwell quadrangle1:62500
1905 USGS Orwell quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Worth Center quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Worth Center quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

16 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Worth Center between 2005 and 2018, burning about 52 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	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
14 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 May 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 April 2018	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 April 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Worth	3.1 miles	23
Waterville	3.6 miles	20
Lorraine	5.8 miles	23
Winona	7.2 miles	20
Rodman	8.8 miles	23
Zoar	8.8 miles	23
East Rodman	8.8 miles	25
Allendale	9.0 miles	21

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.

Wikidata item Q122561945

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 973295. 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.