Winchester Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Winchester Historic District is a historic district which encompasses much of the developed area of Winchester, Illinois. The district includes 438 buildings, of which 273 are contributing buildings.”
Wikipedia article Winchester Historic District (Winchester, Illinois), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Scott County · listed in 1979 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 272 buildingss, 2 sitess as contributing to the listing.
Address. IL 106, Winchester, 62694
When was it listed? February 1979
Category. district
Precinct. Winchester No. 3 precinct
National Register reference number. 79000870 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Winchester Historic District: 5 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
K.E. Vas Sand and Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Shafer Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Scott Highway Department	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Scott County

Storms near this property

55 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winchester, the town this property stands in, in 55 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 30 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 6 flash flood, 3 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2004	Tornado (F1)	Winchester	1 killed, 1 hurt	The tornado initially touched down 6 miles west southwest of Winchester then traveled to the northeast causing minor tree damage. Two miles southwest of Winchester it destroyed a mobile home causing 1 fatality. The two occupants of the mobile home were thrown from the home. The husband only sustained minor injuries. As the tornado went through Winchester it weakened in intensity causing minor to moderate damage to the roofs of several homes, destroyed some sheds and blew down numerous trees.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	$200,000	Several trees and tree limbs were blown down in Winchester. In addition, 15 large power poles were snapped, resulting in a widespread power outage.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	$40,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down about 3 miles southwest of Winchester.
September 2008	Flash Flood	Winchester	$25,000	Route 106 south of Winchester was closed due to high water. In addition, there were numerous reports of flooded basements in Winchester.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	$18,000	Several tree limbs were blown down.
February 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	$15,000	A roof was blown off a utility shed and a 10-inch diameter tree was knocked down.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	$12,000	Several tree limbs and one power line were blown down.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	$2,000	A large tree was blown down on the west side of Winchester.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	$1,500	A large tree was blown across the Winchester/Glasgow Blacktop.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	$1,000	A large tree limb was blown down onto Commercial Street in Winchester.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	$1,000	As a severe thunderstorm moved southeast across Scott County it blew down numerous trees and power lines in Winchester, Glasgow, Alsey, and Manchester. No injuries were reported.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	$100	A local newspaper reported tree limbs about six inches in diameter snapped off from high wind gusts.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	Numerous small tree limbs between one and six inches in diameter were broken, and an area of corn was flattened.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	A tree was blown down resulting in a power outage.
May 2024	Flash Flood	Winchester	-	Cherry Street and Cross Street were closed due to flooding.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	A few trees and tree branches were blown down.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	A large tree was blown down and destroyed a trampoline.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	Numerous trees were blown down in Winchester, some of which were broken in half.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	Several trees, tree branches, and power lines were blown down in Winchester.
May 2010	Flash Flood	Winchester	-	Slow moving thunderstorms produced 3.00 to 4.00 inches of rain in 2 hours across southern Scott County. Many rural roads were impassable, including Illinois Route 106 from Alsey to the Greene County line.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Winchester	-	High water was flowing over roads in numerous locations between Winchester and Jacksonville.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	A cornfield was flattened and several tree limbs were blown down.\|
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	Several trees were blown down.
October 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	A large tree was blown down on a power line.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	Several trees and tree limbs were blown down.
May 2003	Flash Flood	Winchester	-	Very heavy rain fell over Scott county, causing several roads to be flooded. Illinois Route 106 in Winchester was briefly flooded.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	Several large tree limbs were blown down near Illinois Route 106.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines in town.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	A tree was blown over.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	Several trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	Several power lines were blown down in Winchester, Alsey and Glasgow.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	A two to two and a half mile wide swath of damage extended from 3.8 miles west of Winchester to 1 and a quarter miles north of Winchester to 5 miles northeast of Winchester then into Morgan County. Most of the damage was to trees, power lines, and power poles.
May 2000	Tornado (F0)	Winchester	-	A tornado which formed along the leading edge of a bow echo touched down in Pike County (WFO St. Louis CWA) 2.5 miles southeast of Detroit, then traveled to the east northeast, crossing the Illinois River south of Florence. It moved into Scott County (WFO Central Illinois CWA) 8 miles west southwest of Winchester, but little damage was found in the river bottoms area until the tornado moved up into the bluffs. About four miles west of Winchester, it flattened corn, uprooted several trees, snapped a couple of utility poles, damaged an outbuilding, and caused minor damage to two homes before lifting and dissipating. No injuries were reported.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	Several trees were blown down in Winchester. One tree fell onto IL Route 106 east of town and another one fell onto Main street in downtown Winchester, briefly blocking it. No injuries were reported.
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	Numerous large tree limbs were blown down.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	Winds estimated at 60 mph knocked several large ceramic flower pots over.
March 2024	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed
August 2024	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed
March 2016	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed
May 2002	Flash Flood	Winchester	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed
April 1996	Tornado (F0)	Winchester	-	no account filed
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scott County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000870 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Scott County	All 1 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.