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Wortham, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Wortham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76693. The Survey maps it on the Wortham quadrangle. 980 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 476 feet above sea level.

Wortham within Freestone County

Population over time

3 figures

Wortham fell from 1,082 to 980 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
20001,082
20101,073-9 (-1%)
2020980-93 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

147 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Wortham between 2001 and 2020, burning about 1,707 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 14 were 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/undetermined72
Debris and open burning37
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking3
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2015Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE-MUTUAL AID
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE
29 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2008Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSW CR 2410
26 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePOSS GRASS FIRE
23 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
14 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Freestone County

Storms near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wortham in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 5 hail, 5 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
April 2009Flash FloodWortham$1,500,000High water rescues were conducted on FM 246 near Wortham. Numerous County Roads were under water and damaged from prolonged rainfall for much of the day. Nearly every road between Fairfield and Mexia and Fairfield and Wortham was under water. Numerous bridges were washed out or heavily damaged around the county. The Tawakoni Bridge on Interstate 45 was damaged. The Wortham City Hall was damaged by water in the building. The lake near Wortham overflowed its dam and flooded nearby roads with up to three feet of water. Many motorists were stranded in rural parts of the county.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWortham$5,000Power lines knocked down.
October 2010HailWortham$2,000Golf ball size hail was reported in Wortham.
November 2025HailWortham-A trained spotter reported pea to dime sized hail in Wortham.
June 2016Flash FloodWortham-Numerous roads closed due to high water across the county such as Hwy 75, FM 80 at CR1040 in Streetman and I-45 between MM 209 and 210 south of Streetman.
December 2015Flash FloodWortham-Flooding was reported across roads in Wortham.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Wortham-A NWS Storm Survey determined an EF-0 tornado occurred just west of Wortham. This tornado had a path length of approximately 0.8 miles and an estimated width of 100 yards. Mostly tree damage occurred with this tornado and winds were estimated at 75 mph.
December 2006Flash FloodWortham-Up to two feet of water was reported in and between Wortham and Kirvin along CR 27.
May 2000Flash FloodWortham-The Tehuacana Creek was reported out of its banks near Highway 27, east of Wortham.
April 1994HailWortham-A tree was blown down on a road.
June 2023HailWortham-no account filed
May 1999HailWortham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Freestone 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
Kirvin7.2 miles7
Cotton Gin9.1 miles8
Streetman9.5 miles9
Simsboro11.0 miles8
Rhode Island12.4 miles7
Stewards Mill14.0 miles7
Teague14.6 miles8
Bonnerville16.0 miles7

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 WorthamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969740The 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 1350596. 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.