Woodworth, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Bristol Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53104. The Survey maps it on the Paddock Lake quadrangle. It stands 751 feet above sea level.

Woodworth within Kenosha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

1893 USGS Silver Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1906 USGS Silver Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Paddock Lake quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Silver Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Lake Geneva quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

5,017 words on this township

The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin .., published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Bristol Village. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

MAKSHFIELD D. BURT, farmer. Sec. 26 ; P. 0. Woodworth ; born Oct, 9, 1817, Wilbraham, Mass., and worked on a farm and in a saw-mill till about 1846, when he visited Wisoona then returned East, and went to Springfield, Mass., where he worked in a planing-mill and in a car-sh In the fall of 1852, he went to Chicago; again visited Wisconsin and bought a farm of 120 acres, Bristol Township ; went back to Chicago and worked for Stone & Boomer, bridge-builders ; whilst n them, he received a severe wound under the eye, and, during the same year, had a rib broken by sti flying from the circular -saw. In the spring of 1855, he returned to Bristol, and worked on his farm, uj ^hich he settled in the fall of 1857 ; he built his homestead and bams in the summer of 1860 ; at i time of his arrival, it was all wild land, and he has thoroughly cleared and cultivated it ; he has since s seventy-three acres, and retains the balance, upon which he raises the usual farm produce. Married M Welthie A. Davis, of Massachusetts, May 19, 1840. He was manager of the Poor Farm at Wilbrahi Mass., in 1845; was Side Supervisor of Bristol Township several years; Treasurer of School IHst] at different periods, and serves as Pathmaster. Mr. and Mrs. B. are members of the Methodist Chur

Passage source: The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin .., published 1879.

OERHOND Y. FOWJLER, farmer. Sec. 25 ; P. 0. Woodworth ; bora March 18, 1815, in Dutchess Co., N. Y. ; went to Onondaga Co. and worked with his father as a farmer ; came to Kenosha in the fall of 1847, and located in Bristol Township in the spring of 1848 ; bought a farm of 160 acres; has sold it all but forty acres, which he farms himself Married Mrs. Alice Bur well, of Pleasant Prairie, July 7, 1873. She is a member of the Episcopal Church.

Passage source: The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin .., published 1879.

HENRY H. HOIiRROOK, farmer. Sec. 23; P. 0. Woodworth; bora Aug. 5, 1840, in Cheektowaga, Erie Co., N. Y. ; in the fall of 1844, came West with his parents, who located in Bristol Township, in the spring of 1845, after staying a short time at Naperville, 111. ; his father bought the farm of eighty acres and built the homestead in 1852 ; he died Nov. 26, 1877, after a lingering illness of fifteen years; Mr. H. H. Holbrook now cultivates the farm; raises com, oats, wheat, potatoes, horses, cows, sheep, hogs and poultry ; he enlarged the homestead in 1872. Married Miss Mary J. Richtmyor, of Bristol, Nov. 14, 1871, who died Jan. 8, 1875; she hid two children - Arthur J., born Aug. 25, 1872, died Feb. 24, 1873; Harrison L., bora Dec. 25, 1873. Married Mrs. Mary Miller, of Wilmot, Jan. 23, 1878. She is a member of the Dutch Reformed Church.

Passage source: The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin .., published 1879.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Bristol Village - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Fires near this place

13 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Woodworth between 2018 and 2020, burning about 11 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/undetermined	9
Smoking	2
Debris and open burning	2

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
9 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18327
2 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20517
8 July 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	218402
10 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	218407
3 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	218317
14 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18214
2 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	218249
8 April 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	218175

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kenosha County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Woodworth: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Bristol Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pit No. 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ponderosa Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kenosha 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
Bristol	2.5 miles	19
Pleasant Prairie	3.6 miles	14
Pikeville	4.4 miles	20
Salem Oaks	4.8 miles	19
Westwood Estates	4.9 miles	14
Prairie Lake Estates	5.0 miles	14
Lake Shangrila	5.2 miles	19
Truesdell	5.3 miles	14

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 Q136362064

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 1577043. 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.

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.