Winchester, Indiana

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• Randolph County

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 4 records

• Randolph County Infirmarylisted 2018
• Gen. Asahel Stone Mansionlisted 1979
• Winchester Courthouse Square Historic Districtlisted 2001
• Winchester Residential Historic Districtlisted 2011

Winchester grew from 532 to 4,843 between 1850 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.

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.

• 1916 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:48000
• 1916 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1918 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1943 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

History of Randolph County, Indiana with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on White River Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winchester in 42 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 23 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 7 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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.

Every storm recorded in Randolph County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 446166. 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.

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.