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History · Worthington Springs

Worthington Springs’ post office opened in 1967

Most of Worthington Springs was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1983. Below: maps from 1966 on and the census since 1970.

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How Worthington Springs began

When was Worthington Springs founded?

1967

The Worthington Springs post office opened in 1967, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Worhington (1882), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 214 in 19702020 census: 37859 years
Founding year: the first Worthington Springs post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Worthington Springs’ past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Worthington Springs’s history is told.

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The story

How Worthington Springs came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Worthington Springs.

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The community was named for early settler Sam Worthington, who arrived prior to the first Seminole War of 1814–1819. The mineral spring on the Santa Fe River was alleged to have medicinal benefits, attracting people from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. In the early years, swimming was segregated, with men and women assigned specific time intervals. In 1906, the new owner constructed a 12'×12' concrete box around the spring to divert water into a 90'×50' concrete pool with a wall dividing the bathing area into sections for men and women. The complex included a hotel, recreation hall and bathhouse for the spring pool.

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Timeline

Worthington Springs, 1882 to 1967

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1882Post officeThe Worhington post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1966On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1967Post officeThe Worhington post office closes
  6. 1967Post officeThe Worthington Springs post office opens
By decade

Worthington Springs, decade by decade

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On the map

Worthington Springs on the map, 1966 to 1981

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Worthington Springs. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Worthington Springs on the 1966 USGS mapWorthington Springs on the 1981 USGS map1966Worthington Springs sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Worthington Springs.

People over time

Worthington Springs, census by census

0100200300400198020002020Peak: 378

Between 178 and 378 people in every census since 1970.

6 censuses, 1970–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Worthington Springs’ Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Worthington Springs

Nobody well known was born in Worthington Springs itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Tom PettyAmerican musician · b. 1950
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Maya RudolphAmerican actress and comedian · b. 1972
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Noah LylesAmerican sprinter · b. 1997
Dustin MoskovitzAmerican computer/Internet entrepreneur · b. 1984
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Philip H. DybvigAmerican economist · b. 1955
Robert HoffmanAmerican actor · b. 1985
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Worthington Springs’s post office has been open since 1967. Another post office, Worhington, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Worhington
1882–1967
Worthington Springs
1967–today
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Worthington Springs’ history

What year was Worthington Springs founded?

The Worthington Springs post office opened in 1967, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (5), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.