Winside, Nebraska
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hancock precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68790. The Survey maps it on the Winside quadrangle. 379 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,578 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWinside fell from 427 to 379 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 | 427 | |
| 2020 | 379 | -48 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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
- 1963 USGS Winside quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Norfolk quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
19 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Winside between 2003 and 2020, burning about 30 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 August 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 May 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 17 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 17 May 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winside in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 11 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2024 | Flash Flood | Winside | $2,000,000 | The Wayne County EM reported street flooding in Winside. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winside | - | The Wayne County EM reported part of a small garage roof was removed. There was additional damage to a power pole nearby. Surrounding trees were reported to have remained standing. The time was estimated based on radar. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winside | - | The emergency manager relayed reports of numerous outbuildings that were damaged. Trees were uprooted and powerlines were blown down in the area as well. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Winside | - | Trained spotter reported ping pong ball sized hail. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Winside | - | Broadcast media relayed report of quarter sized hail. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Winside | - | The public reported quarter size hail. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Winside | - | A trained spotter reported quarter size hail. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winside | - | Tree lines of 8 to 12 inches in diameter were reported downed by the strong winds. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Winside | - | Hail up to quarter-size was reported by a spotter in the area. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Winside | - | Hail around golf ball-size was reported by the cooperative observer west of Wayne. |
| May 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Winside | - | This funnel was reported to be just across the Stanton county line in far southern Wayne county south of Winside. This was from the storm that eventually produced the apparent tornado near Wayne. |
| August 1997 | Hail | Winside | - | Hail covered the ground near Highway 35 and the Wayne county line. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Winside | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Winside | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Winside | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Winside | - | 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 Winside | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2561560 | 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 834822. 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.
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.




