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Winkler, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Meramec Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65559. The Survey maps it on the Seaton quadrangle.

Winkler within Phelps County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 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

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Winkler between 1992 and 2020, burning about 483 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking1

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
29 September 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220561-08110-07112020-1755
11 July 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 May 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 May 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 May 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 1992Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 April 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phelps County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 46 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 46 workings within 5 miles of Winkler: 35 past producers, 8 prospects, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Copper, Copper, Iron, Clay. 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
Kelly Mine No. 3Copper, IronOccurrenceLimonite
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Decamp MineIron, CopperPast ProducerLimonite, Marcasite
Stimson MineIron, CopperPast Producer1880
African MineIronPast ProducerSurface/Underground
African MineIronPast Producer
Benton Creek MineIronPast Producer
Bowman MineIronPast Producer
Brady MineIronPast ProducerSurface/Underground
Brady MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Phelps County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winkler in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindWinkler$10,000Several large tree limbs were downed and a horse barn had part of the roof peeled back.
June 1994HailWinkler$5,000Golf ball-size hail was reported by the public across extreme southeast Phelps County. Several cars in the area were damaged.
June 2025Flash FloodWinkler-State Highway 68, just south of State Highway JJ had water over the roadway.

Every storm recorded in Phelps 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
Austria (historical)0.9 miles20
Clinton1.5 miles20
Seaton3.1 miles20
De Camp (historical)4.9 miles22
Dean Ford7.4 miles23
Meramec Springs (historical)8.3 miles22
Boys Town of Missouri10.9 miles22
Saint James11.5 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741365. 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.