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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.

Winslow within Pike County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Winslow 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.

YearPeople Change
2010864
2020764-100 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

1 since 2006

Regional 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/undetermined1

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
13 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined365 acresIndiana Division of ForestryWINSLOW SPOILS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

37 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997Thunderstorm WindWinslow$70,000Trees were blown down onto a few homes. Power poles and lines were down. A porch was damaged by wind.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindWinslow$50,000Large trees were uprooted along Highway 57. Some trees blocked roads countywide.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindWinslow$40,000no account filed
May 2011Tornado (EF1)Winslow$20,000Several 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 1999Thunderstorm WindWinslow$15,000One barn was blown down and another barn was damaged several miles west of Winslow. Trees and power lines were down.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindWinslow$10,000Tree limbs and power lines were down across the county.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWinslow$10,000Trees and power lines were down in Winslow and Otwell.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindWinslow$4,000Several trees were damaged in town.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindWinslow$4,000Several trees and limbs were blown down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWinslow$4,000Wind gusts to 80 MPH downed trees.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindWinslow$3,000A couple of power lines were down.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindWinslow$3,000Trees were blown down. One tree near Winslow took down some power lines.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWinslow$3,000Trees were down at several locations around the county.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWinslow$2,000A tree was blown down onto IN-364 near Winslow.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindWinslow$1,000Thunderstorm winds blew down multiple large tree limbs of 4-5 inch diameter.
March 2023Flash FloodWinslow-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 2019Flash FloodWinslow-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 2018Flash FloodWinslow-Flash flooding was reported along Highway 61 near the intersection of Highway 56. Water was over roadways in different locations.
May 2016HailWinslow-Wind gusts were estimated to at least 55 mph.
June 2009Heavy RainWinslow-Standing water was reported on city streets.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindWinslow-Trees were blown down in the Vespen and Winslow areas.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindWinslow-A spotter on Route 61 estimated 55 to 60 MPH gusts.
July 2001FloodWinslow-Slow-moving thunderstorms caused some county roads to flood. A spotter reported 1.5 to 2 inches per hour.
April 1999HailWinslow-Dime to nickel size hail was reported by spotters.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindWinslow-A wind gust to 60 MPH was measured.
June 2023HailWinslow-no account filed
May 2018HailWinslow-no account filed
May 2011HailWinslow-no account filed
June 2007HailWinslow-no account filed
April 2006HailWinslow-no account filed
June 2006HailWinslow-no account filed
June 2004HailWinslow-no account filed
June 2001HailWinslow-no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindWinslow-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindWinslow-no account filed
June 1996HailWinslow-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindWinslow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Ayrshire1.6 miles19
Campbelltown3.1 miles17
Survant3.1 miles19
Muren3.2 miles18
Arthur3.4 miles19
Augusta3.7 miles19
Whiteoak4.0 miles17
Cato4.0 miles17

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 WinslowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2601185The 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.