Windsor, Missouri
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Windsor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65360. The Survey maps it on the Windsor quadrangle. 2,775 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 912 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWindsor fell from 2,901 to 2,775 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 | 2,901 | |
| 2020 | 2,775 | -126 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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.
- 1885 USGS Warrensburg quadrangle1:125000
- 1887 USGS Warrensburg quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Warrensburg quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Windsor quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Sedalia quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
3,204 words on this townshipHistory of Henry County, Missouri, published 1919 names this settlement in its chapter on Windsor Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
New school and church houses were built throughout the county. Montrose had a sidewalk boom, Urich built a new school house, a bank was established at Blairstown, some new potteries were established at Calhoun, Windsor became the line horse center for western Missouri, as well as the capital of the Star Route Mail service of the United States, and Deepwater continued to develop her coal and clay.
Passage source: History of Henry County, Missouri, published 1919.
Eighteen hundred and eighty-six was another year of bountiful crops and was marked by much general improvement everywhere. Bridges were built, and the new towns kept up their growth whilst Windsor, Calhoun and Clinton were all on the alert that none of the new places might snatch any of the honors from them. In this there has always been a friendly rivalry. Each community is always ready to lend a helping hand to the other in any local enterprise.
Passage source: History of Henry County, Missouri, published 1919.
Windsor boasted of a single shipment of 19,000 pounds of butter. In July of this year was chronicled the incorporation of the Brinkerhoff- Faris Trust and Savings Company, the sale of the Windsor Mineral Springs Hotel, a farmers' picnic at Peelor Springs, and a chapter of minor accidents.
Passage source: History of Henry County, Missouri, published 1919.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Windsor Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.
Fires near this place
22 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Windsor between 2018 and 2020, burning about 138 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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 burning | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179237-04281-05062019-1631 |
| 2 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 200535-04281-05022020-2019 |
| 9 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179235-04281-04092019-1620 |
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176636-04281-04072018-1523 |
| 27 April 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179236-04281-04272019-1628 |
| 24 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176857-04281-04242018-1126 |
| 16 April 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176638-04281-04162018-0507 |
| 12 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.6 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176637-04281-04122018-2049 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Windsor: 1 past producer. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown - Ls. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
27 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Windsor in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 14 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $20,000 | A tree was knocked down onto a house. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $10,000 | Trees down, garage door blown off, hog sheds tipped |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $2,000 | A large tree was blown down, and there was damage reported to a building. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $2,000 | A barn was reported destroyed, and several trees up to a foot in diameter, were reported knocked over. A porch was detached from a house. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $2,000 | Trees and power lines reported down. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $1,000 | Large tree limb fell on car. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Windsor | - | Quarter size hail was reported near Windsor. |
| February 2017 | Hail | Windsor | - | This report was received via social media. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Windsor | - | A vehicle was submerged in the city limit of Windsor. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Windsor | - | Numerous roads were closed due to flooding from the Windsor to Calhoun areas. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | - | A 100' by 60' barn was destroyed with only one wall left standing. |
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Windsor | - | Water was running over Highway E, south of Windsor. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | - | The sheriff's department reported numerous downed trees and power lines. |
| February 2019 | Hail | Windsor | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Windsor | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Windsor | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Windsor | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Windsor | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Windsor | - | no account filed |
| January 2008 | Hail | Windsor | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Windsor | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Windsor | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Windsor | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Windsor | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | - | no account filed |
| March 1993 | Hail | Windsor | - | 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 Windsor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q958551 | 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 729832. 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.









