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Winsted, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Winsted Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55395. The Survey maps it on the Winsted quadrangle. 2,240 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.

Winsted within McLeod County

On record in Winsted

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

Winsted fell from 2,355 to 2,240 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
20102,355
20202,240-115 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Winsted in 2011, burning about 3 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
9 November 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McLeod County

Storms near this place

51 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winsted in 51 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 27 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 funnel cloud. 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
June 2002Thunderstorm WindWinsted$20,000Roof blown off mobile home at airport. Roof blown off stage at Winstock Music Festival, destroying numerous folding chairs.
June 2013Flash FloodWinsted$15,000Significant street flooding occurred in the town of Winsted as rainfall amounts were in excess of 1 to 2 inches in a short period of time. Some homes reported basement flooding.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindWinsted$10,000Several large tree branches caused damage to power lines around the city.
July 2010LightningWinsted$5,000Lightning struck a home and it caught on fire.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindWinsted-Report of a tree down on house.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindWinsted-This event is a continuation of the strong thunderstorm that developed into Wright County and traveled into far northeastern McLeod County. Emergency Management reported numerous large limbs and two trees that were brought down by strong wind gusts and blocked roads in Winsted.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWinsted-Several large tree branches were blown down across the city of Winsted. One large tree, 20 inches in diameter, also fell in Winsted on 6th Street.
July 2016Tornado (EF0)Winsted-Multiple photos and videos showed a funnel cloud east of Winsted, and that it was very close to the ground. Damage was verified at the same location, with several trees knocked down and heavy farm machinery moved.
July 2016HailWinsted-A picture was taken of several large hail stones, the largest was three inches in diameter in northeast Winsted.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindWinsted-Several large tree limbs were blown down across Winsted.
July 2016Funnel CloudWinsted-A funnel cloud was observed east of Winsted. Although multiple photos and videos showed the funnel close to the ground, it was not possible to verify that it touched down.
June 2013Flash FloodWinsted-Flood waters were flowing over roads, north of Winsted.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindWinsted-A few trees and power lines were blown down in Winsted.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindWinsted-A tree was blown down across a power line.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindWinsted-A large tree was blown down.
August 2011Heavy RainWinsted-Minor ponding of water was reported at the intersection of Fairlawn Avenue and Fairlawn Circle in Winsted.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWinsted-A pole barn and other large sheds were downed just south of Winsted along County Road 1. Numerous trees and a few power lines were downed onto homes, vehicles, and roads in Winsted. A wall was pushed in the downtown area.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindWinsted-Three sheds, a barn, and several trees were downed.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindWinsted-A carport was blown off a building near the intersection of Route 15 and Highway 7.
June 2002Flash FloodWinsted-Basements were flooded and roads covered in the wake of a quick three to four inches of rain.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindWinsted-Estimated winds, trees felled.
June 1998HailWinsted-Large branches down with some crop damage.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindWinsted-Trees and power lines down. Estimated windspeed.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindWinsted-Tree damage.
May 2022HailWinsted-no account filed
April 2021HailWinsted-no account filed
July 2016HailWinsted-no account filed
June 2013HailWinsted-no account filed
June 2013HailWinsted-no account filed
June 2013HailWinsted-no account filed
June 2013HailWinsted-no account filed
April 2012HailWinsted-no account filed
May 2011HailWinsted-no account filed
July 2008HailWinsted-no account filed
July 2008HailWinsted-no account filed
July 2008HailWinsted-no account filed
July 2008HailWinsted-no account filed
July 2008HailWinsted-no account filed
August 2007HailWinsted-no account filed
August 2007HailWinsted-no account filed
June 2007HailWinsted-no account filed
August 2006HailWinsted-no account filed
September 2005HailWinsted-no account filed
August 2004HailWinsted-no account filed
April 2002HailWinsted-no account filed
June 2002HailWinsted-no account filed
June 2001HailWinsted-no account filed
July 2000HailWinsted-no account filed
July 2000Funnel CloudWinsted-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWinsted-no account filed
June 1994HailWinsted-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McLeod 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
Country Acres0.7 miles10
Sherman4.7 miles10
Lester Prairie5.5 miles10
Silver Lake8.9 miles10
South Silver Lake9.7 miles10
Koniska12.2 miles10
Komensky12.8 miles11
Plato13.1 miles10

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 WinstedAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2096329The 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 654275. 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.