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Worthing, South Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lynn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57077. The Survey maps it on the Worthing quadrangle. 927 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,362 feet above sea level.

Worthing within Lincoln County

On record in Worthing

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Worthing grew from 877 to 927 between 2010 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
2010877
2020927+50 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

71 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Worthing between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,961 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/undetermined34
Debris and open burning27
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks2
Smoking1

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
6 September 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCR-115 / 280TH
4 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLincoln CountyUS HWY 115/279
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSD HWY 15 & 278
27 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionI-29 MILE 61
26 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionI29 M MARKER 60
24 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWORTHING
24 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTOWER
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMM 57

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

37 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Worthing in 37 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 17 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 2 flood. 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
May 2000Thunderstorm WindWorthing$250,000Thunderstorm winds caused extensive damage on a new car lot by blasting vehicles with sand and dust, breaking glass and destroying finishes. The winds also caused tree damage and minor building damage.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWorthing$25,000Several power poles were snapped by thunderstorm winds. Property damage costs are a rough estimate.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWorthing$15,000Two semi-trucks were flipped by thunderstorm wind gusts a little south of Exit 68 on Interstate 29. Property damage costs are a rough estimate.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWorthing$15,000A semi truck and trailer was tipped over along with damage to two other vehicles. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWorthing$10,000Metal roof pieces from a house were blown across the county road to the east. Several trees were gnarled with limbs down. Property damage costs are a rough estimate.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWorthing$10,000A car dealership sign was destroyed by thunderstorm wind gusts. Property damage costs are a rough estimate.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWorthing$5,000The roof and doors to a shed were damaged. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWorthing$1,000Limbs up to 3 inches in diameter were taken down. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
April 2025HailWorthing-Hail up to quarter size fell along U.S. Highway 18 near Minnesota Avenue.
June 2024FloodWorthing-Beaver Creek at Canton rose above flood stage the evening of June 20th, cresting around 10.46 feet above flood stage (1257.46 feet) on June 22nd. This crest is in the Major Stage. The creek then fell below flood stage on the morning of June 27th. For a more comprehensive description of flood damage, please see other entries for Lincoln County.
June 2022FloodWorthing-Locally heavy rainfall pushed Beaver Creek at Canton (gage site BCCS2) above minor flood stage for a brief time on June 13, with a crest at 0.31 feet above flood stage. A minor amount of agricultural land was flooded.
August 2021Tornado (EFU)Worthing-A tornado spun up 4 miles northeast of Worthing, one-half mile north of 278th Street just east of 475th Avenue. The tornado tracked northeast for a little over a mile before it lifted 4 miles south of Harrisburg, just southwest of the intersection of 277th Street and 476th Avenue. Damage was limited to crops with the path defined on Sentinel satellite imagery. The average path width was 20 yards.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWorthing-Thunderstorm winds snapped several 6 to 12 inch diameter limbs.
August 2021Tornado (EFU)Worthing-This tornado formed 2 miles north-northwest of Worthing, around one-half mile east of Interstate 29 and north of 278th Street. The tornado tracked northeast and then east-northeast for around one and one-half miles across open farmland and lifted 3 miles north-northeast of Worthing just south of 277th Street. The average path width, identified by crop damage in Sentinel satellite imagery, was 20 yards.
September 2010HailWorthing-Hail was accompanied by estimated 60 mph wind gusts.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindWorthing-Thunderstorm winds, accompanied by hail, caused minor tree damage.
May 2007HailWorthing-Large hail covered the ground.
March 2004HailWorthing-Hail covered the ground.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Worthing-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Worthing-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Worthing-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWorthing-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a dead tree uprooted.
June 2003HailWorthing-Large hail covered the ground. The hail caused damage to corn and soybean crops, but the amount of crop damage was not known.
May 2015HailWorthing-no account filed
August 2008HailWorthing-no account filed
August 2008HailWorthing-no account filed
May 2007HailWorthing-no account filed
April 2005HailWorthing-no account filed
April 2005HailWorthing-no account filed
May 2005HailWorthing-no account filed
May 2004HailWorthing-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindWorthing-no account filed
June 2003HailWorthing-no account filed
September 2002HailWorthing-no account filed
June 2002HailWorthing-no account filed
July 1998HailWorthing-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindWorthing-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Lennox7.1 miles10
Harrisburg7.9 miles10
Naomi8.6 miles10
Tea9.0 miles11
Canton9.2 miles11
Shindler11.7 miles10
Moe14.5 miles11
Norway Center15.7 miles11

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 WorthingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2152099The 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 1259085. 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.