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Winona, Arizona

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Flagstaff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86004. It lies near Walnut Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Winona quadrangle. It stands 6,240 feet above sea level.

Winona within Coconino County

On record in Winona

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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.

Photographs

3 photographs, 1943

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Winona, Arizona. Passing another freight train in a siding along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Winslow and Seligman, Arizona
Winona, Arizona. Passing another freight train in a siding along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Winslow and Seligman, Arizona
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Winona, Arizona. Passing another freight train in a siding along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Winslow and Seligman, Arizona
Winona, Arizona. Passing another freight train in a siding along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Winslow and Seligman, Arizona
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Winona, Arizona. Passing another freight train in a siding along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Winslow and Seligman, Arizona
Winona, Arizona. Passing another freight train in a siding along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Winslow and Seligman, Arizona
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Winona between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,250 acres in total. 86 started naturally. 2 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
Natural86
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Recreation and ceremony19
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Smoking2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
8 September 1996Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestWILD
5 September 2011Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresCoconino National ForestRANCH
5 September 2002Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestRECYCLER
4 September 2019Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestPAPA
4 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCoconino National ForestWILDCAT
4 September 1996Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestTUFA
27 September 2017Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestBAIRD
26 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCoconino National ForestWINONA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Winona: 7 past producers, 5 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, Pumice. 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
Angell No. 2 Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerCinders
Baker PitVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerCinders
Baker PitPumiceProducer
Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerCinders
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Darling Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsProducer

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winona in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2006: 2 flood, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 wildfire. 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
August 1997FloodWinona$1,000Minor flooding of dirt roads and ponding of water in Winona.
July 2006Flash FloodWinona-A flash flood covered I-40 between mile post 217 and 219 near Twin Arrows. Several traffic accidents reported.
August 2005Flash FloodWinona-Heavy rain (up to 5 inches) caused flooding along Townsend-Winona Road. One home had two inches of water in it.
July 2000WildfireWinona-Lightning started a forest fire about 3 miles north of Winona (16 miles east of Flagstaff) on July 24. The Power Fire burned about 1500 acers in pinyon and juniper trees and grassland. Air tankers, helicopters, and about 70 people contained the fire by the evening of July 27.
September 1999Tornado (F0)Winona-A witness of this brief tornado was interviewed by a channel 3, a local TV station, the day of the event. In the interview, the witness described the rope like tornado descending from the cloud, and touching the ground twice in an open field.
September 1997FloodWinona-Several thunderstorms with heavy rain caused flooding on several secondary roads and one lane of eastbound Interstate 40 through Winona was closed due to flooding for one hour.

Every storm recorded in Coconino 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
Darling0.5 miles22
Cosnino3.5 miles22
Mountain View Ranches4.5 miles22
Angell5.6 miles22
Elden Pueblo8.9 miles31
East Flagstaff10.9 miles31
Cogdill Center12.6 miles30
Flagstaff12.9 miles30

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 WinonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2584795The 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 36324. 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.