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Winchester, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63445. The Survey maps it on the Kahoka SE quadrangle.

Winchester within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Winchester between 1992 and 2018, burning about 76 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
Debris and open burning7

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
28 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177053-02309-04282018-1653
27 March 1997Debris and open burning40 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 March 1997Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 March 1997Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 March 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 March 1992Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 February 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Winchester: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bakers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winchester in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2010: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWinchester$500Wind gusts estimated to be 65 mph blew down a large tree across Route H near Winchester, MO around 815 pm June 4.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindWinchester$200Numerous large trees and a few power poles were blown over.
August 2009Flash FloodWinchester-Heavy rains resulted in the flash flooding of Highway 61/27 about 3 miles southwest of Gregory Landing, MO during the predawn hours of August 17. The flood waters were flowing across the highway near the county line for a time. Officers reported that the water had receded by 705 am.
April 1996HailWinchester-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Saint Patrick3.8 miles16
Antioch4.4 miles16
Wayland5.5 miles17
Gregory Landing6.6 miles17
Clark City8.0 miles17
Union8.2 miles16
Alexandria8.7 miles17
Kahoka9.1 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 WinchesterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27984536The 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 728989. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.