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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.

Winnetoon within Knox County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Winnetoon 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.

YearPeople Change
201068
202054-14 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

17 since 2014

Regional 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 use8
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2016Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 July 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 June 2017Debris and open burning4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 June 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2017Debris and open burning20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Coutts and Sons CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Selders Sand & Gravel Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Knox County

Storms near this place

10 since 2005

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025HailWinnetoon-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 2019HailWinnetoon-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindWinnetoon-The emergency manager reported large tree branches blown down.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWinnetoon-Local law enforcement reported that 12 inch tree limbs were broke off.
August 2013Flash FloodWinnetoon-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 2008Thunderstorm WindWinnetoon-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 2018HailWinnetoon-no account filed
July 2018HailWinnetoon-no account filed
June 2006HailWinnetoon-no account filed
July 2005HailWinnetoon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Knox 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
Bazile Mills3.0 miles10
Creighton4.3 miles9
Verdigre7.0 miles10
Center8.0 miles10
Sparta9.9 miles10
Jelen12.6 miles10
Walnut13.4 miles10
Midland14.1 miles9

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 WinnetoonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2197825The 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.