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.
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
Winsted City Halllisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresWinsted 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,355 | |
| 2020 | 2,240 | -115 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1953 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Glencoe quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Winsted quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Glencoe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2011Regional 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/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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 November 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
51 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winsted | $20,000 | Roof blown off mobile home at airport. Roof blown off stage at Winstock Music Festival, destroying numerous folding chairs. |
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | Winsted | $15,000 | Significant 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winsted | $10,000 | Several large tree branches caused damage to power lines around the city. |
| July 2010 | Lightning | Winsted | $5,000 | Lightning struck a home and it caught on fire. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winsted | - | Report of a tree down on house. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winsted | - | 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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winsted | - | 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 2016 | Tornado (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 2016 | Hail | Winsted | - | A picture was taken of several large hail stones, the largest was three inches in diameter in northeast Winsted. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winsted | - | Several large tree limbs were blown down across Winsted. |
| July 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Winsted | - | 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 2013 | Flash Flood | Winsted | - | Flood waters were flowing over roads, north of Winsted. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winsted | - | A few trees and power lines were blown down in Winsted. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winsted | - | A tree was blown down across a power line. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winsted | - | A large tree was blown down. |
| August 2011 | Heavy Rain | Winsted | - | Minor ponding of water was reported at the intersection of Fairlawn Avenue and Fairlawn Circle in Winsted. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winsted | - | 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 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winsted | - | Three sheds, a barn, and several trees were downed. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winsted | - | A carport was blown off a building near the intersection of Route 15 and Highway 7. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Winsted | - | Basements were flooded and roads covered in the wake of a quick three to four inches of rain. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winsted | - | Estimated winds, trees felled. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Winsted | - | Large branches down with some crop damage. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winsted | - | Trees and power lines down. Estimated windspeed. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winsted | - | Tree damage. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| April 2021 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Funnel Cloud | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winsted | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Winsted | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Country Acres | 0.7 miles | 10 | |
| Sherman | 4.7 miles | 10 | |
| Lester Prairie | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Silver Lake | 8.9 miles | 10 | |
| South Silver Lake | 9.7 miles | 10 | |
| Koniska | 12.2 miles | 10 | |
| Komensky | 12.8 miles | 11 | |
| Plato | 13.1 miles | 10 |
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 Winsted | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2096329 | 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 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.






