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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

South Worthington, Massachusetts

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Worthington town. It lies in ZIP code area 01098. It stands on Jackson Brook. The Survey maps it on the Chester quadrangle.

South Worthington within Hampshire County

Then and now

1886 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 111 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of South Worthington, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of South Worthington, surveyed 1886

Compare 1886 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

36 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 nearby

8 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of South Worthington between 2015 and 2020, burning about 27 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 burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
19 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use25 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
10 May 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution1.5 acresMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
9 March 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
10 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampshire County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 575 shown

Museums hold 575 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Worthington between 1822 and 1975: 319 Animalia, 185 Plantae, 69 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A., A. Gurney, A. K. Harrison and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Buellia disciformis (Fr.) MuddBuellia disciformis (Fr.) Mudd1900George P. ClintonHammond Pond
Specimen of Graphis scripta (L.) Ach.Graphis scripta (L.) Ach.1900George P. ClintonHammond Pond
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylloidea, not of this specimenPorella platyphylloidea (Schwein.) Lindb.1822EmmonsNorwich
A photograph of the species Veratrum viride, not of this specimenVeratrum viride subsp. viride1847not recordedBrunswick and Goshen
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium depauperatum, not of this specimenDichanthelium depauperatum (Muhl.) Gould1868Joseph BlakeWesthampton
A photograph of the species Halenia deflexa, not of this specimenHalenia deflexa (Sm.) Griseb.1868Collector(s): Henry Griswold JesupCummington
A photograph of the species Lygodium palmatum, not of this specimenLygodium palmatum (Bernh.) Sw.1872Miller, E.S.East Hampton
A photograph of the species Botrychium matricariifolium, not of this specimenBotrychium matricariifolium (Döll) A.Braun ex Koch1873H. G. Jesup
Botrychium virginianum subsp. typicum R.T.Clausen1873Jesup, H.G.Goshen.
A photograph of the species Phegopteris connectilis, not of this specimenPhegopteris connectilis (Michx.) Watt1873H. G. Jesup
A photograph of the species Botrychium lanceolatum, not of this specimenBotrychium lanceolatum (S.G.Gmel.) Ångstr.1874H. G. Jesup
A photograph of the species Leucobryum glaucum, not of this specimenLeucobryum glaucum (Hedw.) Ångstr.1877H. J. BiddlecomeChester

All 575 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of South Worthington: 5 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Lithium, Stone, Mica. 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
McKinney LedgeMicaOccurrenceMica
McKinney Ledge ProspectMicaProspect
Whetstone QuarryStoneProducerMetamorphic
Whetstone QuarryStonePast Producer
Norwich Lithia MineLithiumProducer
Norwich Lithia MineLithiumPast Producer
Norwich Lithia MineLithiumPast Producer
W. Chesterfield Lithia Mine/Clark Ledge Lithia MineLithiumPast ProducerSpodumene
West Chesterfield Lithia MineLithiumProducerFeldspar
West Chesterfield Lithia MineLithiumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hampshire County

Storms nearby

1 since 2010

The National Weather Service names South Worthington in 1 storm report between 2010 and 2010: 1 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
July 2010Thunderstorm WindSouth Worthington$15,000Two large trees were downed off West Road at the Huntington line.

Every storm recorded in Hampshire 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
Ringville2.1 miles36
West Chesterfield4.1 miles35
Chesterfield4.2 miles38
Bisbee Mill4.3 miles37
Knightville4.3 miles37
Worthington Center4.4 miles35
Norwich4.7 miles37
Worthington Corners5.2 miles35

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608362. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.