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Winchester, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Winchester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83555. The Survey maps it on the Winchester East quadrangle. 356 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,970 feet above sea level.

Winchester within Lewis County

Population over time

2 figures

Winchester grew from 340 to 356 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010340
2020356+16 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Winchester between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,410 acres in total. 22 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
Natural22
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Firearms and explosives use1

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 2007Debris and open burning2.7 acresNez Perce TribeBOGG DOWN
7 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsWINCHESTER CAMP
3 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNez Perce TribeSPIDER WEB
3 September 2002Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsWOODSIDE
23 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreNez Perce TribeUNIT7
23 September 1994Debris and open burning85 acresIdaho Department of LandsMUD SPRINGS
19 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsDOUBLE TWIST
17 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsGRANITE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Winchester: 4 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, Dimension, Limestone, Ultra Pure. 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
Mill Creek Limestone DepositLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, DimensionPast ProducerMetamorphic
Mission Creek LimestoneLimestone, Ultra PurePast Producer1942
Nez Perce Limestone QuarryLimestone, DimensionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winchester in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
November 2010Thunderstorm WindWinchester$5,000no account filed
June 2022FloodWinchester$2,000Two flooding issues noted in Winchester. For one property, a gravel driveway was washout due to a plugged culvert. On a neighboring property, a small pond rose six feet and over the roadway. Time of start of flooding was approximate 7pm.
June 2016HailWinchester-A member of the public reported 1 inch size hail at Winchester, Idaho.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindWinchester-no account filed
June 2007HailWinchester-no account filed
May 2002HailWinchester-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Woodside (historical)2.6 miles9
Craig Junction5.4 miles9
Clicks5.5 miles9
Kippen6.3 miles9
Forest6.6 miles7
Ilo (historical)6.7 miles8
Slickpoo7.0 miles9
Reubens7.1 miles9

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 WinchesterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1511332The 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 375955. 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.