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Worcester, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hackett town. It lies in ZIP code area 54556. The Survey maps it on the Prentice quadrangle. It stands 1,608 feet above sea level.

Worcester within Price County

On record in Worcester

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Worcester between 1992 and 2020, burning about 91 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Equipment and vehicle use16
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
29 September 2012Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY A
1 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Price County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Worcester: 5 occurrences, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cranberry Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hay Creek Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hay Creek Gravel Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Joe Spacek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Little Chicago Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Prentice Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Prentice Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Spring Drive Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Price County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Worcester in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
July 2020Flash FloodWorcester-Water over the roadway in the town of Worcester led to the roads being closed.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindWorcester-Thunderstorm winds uprooted a large tree.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Worcester-A brief, weak tornado occurred north-northwest of Prentice. Only tree damage was noted along the damage path. [DI 28 (TS), DOD 2, EXP, Est Gust 75 mph].

Every storm recorded in Price 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
Cranberry Lake3.9 miles10
Prentice4.0 miles10
Pennington7.3 miles10
Dover7.3 miles11
Phillips8.6 miles10
Brantwood9.8 miles8
Ogema11.0 miles9
Catawba13.4 miles8

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 WorcesterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8034143The 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 1577893. 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.

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.