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History · Worden

Worden’s post office opened in 1910

Most of Worden was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1979. Below: maps from 1893 on.

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How Worden began

When was Worden founded?

1910

The Worden post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 582116 years
Founding year: the first Worden post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Worden’s past

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A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Worden are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18933 editions of the USGS map, 1893 to 1989. Watch Worden change.
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Worden on the map, 1893 to 1989

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

Worden on the 1893 USGS mapWorden on the 1967 USGS mapWorden on the 1989 USGS map1893Huntley sheet · 1:125,000

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

The story

How Worden came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Worden.

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Worden is located on land designated in 1868 as part of the Crow Indian Reservation. When the Northern Pacific Railroad was surveyed and built in the early 1880s, the Clermont station was built 21 miles from Billings 1882, just across the tracks from present-day Worden.

The town of Worden was mapped out in 1907 as part of the Huntley Project. . The name of the town was originally going to be Dixon, but as there was already a Dixon, Montana (now known as Sčilíp, Montana) the name Worden was suggested after Senator Thomas Dixon's wife, Frances. Frances was the daughter of F.L. Worden, one of the founders of Missoula, Montana.

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Questions about Worden’s history

What year was Worden founded?

The Worden post office opened in 1910, 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 (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.