Winslow, Indiana
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Patoka Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47598. It stands on Stone Coe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Winslow quadrangle. 764 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 443 feet above sea level.
On record in Winslow
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 1 record
Palace Lodgelisted 1984
Population over time
2 figuresWinslow fell from 864 to 764 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 864 | |
| 2020 | 764 | -100 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1902 USGS Ditney quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1903 USGS Velpen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Winslow in 2006, burning about 365 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 365 acres | Indiana Division of Forestry | WINSLOW SPOILS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
37 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winslow in 37 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 20 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 3 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winslow | $70,000 | Trees were blown down onto a few homes. Power poles and lines were down. A porch was damaged by wind. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winslow | $50,000 | Large trees were uprooted along Highway 57. Some trees blocked roads countywide. |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winslow | $40,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Winslow | $20,000 | Several dozen trees were uprooted or snapped. Some trees had trunks of two feet in diameter. Peak winds were estimated near 95 mph. The average path width was 35 yards. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winslow | $15,000 | One barn was blown down and another barn was damaged several miles west of Winslow. Trees and power lines were down. |
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winslow | $10,000 | Tree limbs and power lines were down across the county. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winslow | $10,000 | Trees and power lines were down in Winslow and Otwell. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winslow | $4,000 | Several trees were damaged in town. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winslow | $4,000 | Several trees and limbs were blown down. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winslow | $4,000 | Wind gusts to 80 MPH downed trees. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winslow | $3,000 | A couple of power lines were down. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winslow | $3,000 | Trees were blown down. One tree near Winslow took down some power lines. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winslow | $3,000 | Trees were down at several locations around the county. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winslow | $2,000 | A tree was blown down onto IN-364 near Winslow. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winslow | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down multiple large tree limbs of 4-5 inch diameter. |
| March 2023 | Flash Flood | Winslow | - | Cup Creek and its tributaries were all overflowing into surrounding fields. Some county roads had water running across them. Fields were flooding. Ponding was reported on State Route 64 in places where highway ditches were full and spilling onto the road. |
| June 2019 | Flash Flood | Winslow | - | A main water line was washed out four miles northeast of Winslow, near Cato. Creeks were out of their banks, including Cup Creek within a mile of where it drains into the Patoka River. |
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Winslow | - | Flash flooding was reported along Highway 61 near the intersection of Highway 56. Water was over roadways in different locations. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Winslow | - | Wind gusts were estimated to at least 55 mph. |
| June 2009 | Heavy Rain | Winslow | - | Standing water was reported on city streets. |
| November 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winslow | - | Trees were blown down in the Vespen and Winslow areas. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winslow | - | A spotter on Route 61 estimated 55 to 60 MPH gusts. |
| July 2001 | Flood | Winslow | - | Slow-moving thunderstorms caused some county roads to flood. A spotter reported 1.5 to 2 inches per hour. |
| April 1999 | Hail | Winslow | - | Dime to nickel size hail was reported by spotters. |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winslow | - | A wind gust to 60 MPH was measured. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Winslow | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Winslow | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Winslow | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Winslow | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Winslow | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Winslow | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Winslow | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Winslow | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winslow | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winslow | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Winslow | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winslow | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Winslow | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2601185 | The 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 446190. 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.
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.






