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Worthington Corners, Massachusetts

35 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 Steven Brook. The Survey maps it on the Worthington quadrangle.

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

Compare 1886 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

35 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

3 since 2018

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Worthington Corners between 2018 and 2020, burning about 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
15 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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 446 shown

Museums hold 446 specimens collected within 10 miles of Worthington Corners between 1822 and 1975: 287 Animalia, 83 Plantae, 75 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gurney, A. K. Harrison, A. M. Rogers 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 Halenia deflexa, not of this specimenHalenia deflexa (Sm.) Griseb.1868Collector(s): Henry Griswold JesupCummington
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
A photograph of the species Dendroica discolor, not of this specimenDendroica discolor discolor (Vieillot, 1809)1890C. H. WatrousChester
A photograph of the species Dendroica virens, not of this specimenDendroica virens virens (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1891Henry BennettChester

All 446 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 14 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Worthington Corners: 5 occurrences, 4 producers, 4 past producers, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Lithium, Talc-Soapstone, Emery, Quartz. 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
Northern Chester Emery MineEmeryOccurrenceEmery
Whetstone QuarryQuartzProducerQuartz
Whetstone QuarryStonePast Producer
Middlefield ProspectsTalc-SoapstoneOccurrence
Soapstone QuarryTalc-SoapstoneProducerMetamorphic
Talc OccuranceTalc-SoapstoneOccurrenceMetamorphic
Talc OccurrenceTalc-SoapstoneOccurrence
Clark Ledge Lithia MineLithiumProducerFeldspar
Clark Ledge Lithia MineLithiumPast Producer
Mac Comber Ledge Lithia MineLithiumOccurrenceFeldspar

Every working recorded in Hampshire County

Storms nearby

26 since 2000

The National Weather Service names Worthington Corners in 26 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 14 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 3 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2009LightningWorthington Corners1 hurtA woman was injured when lightning came through the open garage door and struck her ping pong paddle. She experienced pain in her right arm, an irregular heart rhythm and the tissue in her throat was burned.
August 2004LightningWorthington Corners$150,000no account filed
May 2010Thunderstorm WindWorthington Corners$30,000Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds in Chesterfield and Worthington, including a few on South Street in Chesterfield.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindWorthington Corners$15,000On West Street, several trees up to eight inches in diameter were downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2016LightningWorthington Corners$10,000Lightning struck a barn at 203 Buffington Hill Road in Worthington, resulting in a fire. Efforts to extinguish the fire were slow due to a lack of fire hydrant nearby.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindWorthington Corners$10,000Two trees were down near North Road.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindWorthington Corners$5,000A tree on West Road was downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindWorthington Corners$5,000A large tree and wires on Dingle Road were downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindWorthington Corners$5,000A tree on Ireland Street was downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWorthington Corners$5,000Trees and wires on River Road were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindWorthington Corners$5,000no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindWorthington Corners$3,000A tree on West Street was downed by thunderstorm winds.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindWorthington Corners$2,400Im Worthington, a tree and wires were reported down on Sawyer Road, Thayer Hill Road, and Old Main Road.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWorthington Corners$1,000Eight inch diameter tree limbs on River Road were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindWorthington Corners$500Several eight inch diameter tree limbs on West Street were downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2010HailWorthington Corners-Penny size hail fell on Route 112.
September 2008HailWorthington Corners-Penny to golfball sized hail fell in Worthington.
August 2007HailWorthington Corners-Nickel size hail fell for about 5 minutes.
May 2011HailWorthington Corners-no account filed
June 2011HailWorthington Corners-no account filed
August 2011HailWorthington Corners-no account filed
June 2008HailWorthington Corners-no account filed
May 2002HailWorthington Corners-no account filed
May 2001HailWorthington Corners-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWorthington Corners-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindWorthington Corners-no account filed

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
Worthington Center0.9 miles35
West Worthington2.8 miles35
Ringville3.1 miles36
West Chesterfield3.2 miles35
Bryant Four Corners4.0 miles35
Cummington4.2 miles35
Swift River4.8 miles38
South Worthington5.2 miles36

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 Q122552837The 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 608002. 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.