Winnetoon, Nebraska
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Miller Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68789. The Survey maps it on the Center West quadrangle. 54 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,660 feet above sea level.
On record in Winnetoon
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 2 records
Winnetoon Jaillisted 1995- Winnetoon Public Schoollisted 2020
Population over time
2 figuresWinnetoon fell from 68 to 54 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 | 68 | |
| 2020 | 54 | -14 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Center West quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Center West quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Yankton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
17 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Winnetoon between 2014 and 2019, burning about 134 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 27 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 July 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 June 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Winnetoon: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coutts and Sons Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Selders Sand & Gravel Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winnetoon in 10 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 6 hail, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Hail | Winnetoon | - | Trained spotter report of hail nearing tennis ball-size from chaser live stream. Time estimated from radar on Highway 14 West of Winnetoon, NE. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Winnetoon | - | A trained spotter reported quarter size hail. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winnetoon | - | The emergency manager reported large tree branches blown down. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winnetoon | - | Local law enforcement reported that 12 inch tree limbs were broke off. |
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Winnetoon | - | The public reported flash flooding in rural Knox County. The flooding included several county roads becoming flooded from rainfall runoff, as well as flooding of farm fields. Rainfall amounts greater than 4 inches were reported in this part of Knox County that led to the flooding. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winnetoon | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph were accompanied by hail up to golfball-size. The winds and hail caused vehicle and house damage in Creighton and crop damage near town, especially in the Winnetoon area northwest of Creighton. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Winnetoon | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Winnetoon | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Winnetoon | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Winnetoon | - | 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 Winnetoon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2197825 | 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 834820. 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.





