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Winston, New Mexico

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Truth or Consequences West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87943. It stands on Poverty Creek. The Survey maps it on the Winston quadrangle. 47 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,158 feet above sea level.

Winston within Sierra County

Population over time

2 figures

Winston fell from 61 to 47 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
201061
202047-14 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Winston between 1997 and 2000, burning about 4 acres in total. 2 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
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
10 September 2000Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestGULCH
18 July 1997Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestFOUR
23 May 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSCHOOL HOUSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sierra County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Winston: 12 producers, 5 past producers, 4 prospects, 4 occurrences. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Silver, Iron, Silver, Gold, Copper. 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
Black KnifeLead, Silver, Copper, ZincProspect
Black Knife Group 1880'sZinc, Copper, Lead, Silver, GoldProducer1885, 1961
Covington Group 1880'sSilver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, ManganeseProducer1885, 1925
Denver Lode & Little BonanzaCopper, SilverUnknown
Dictator Mine 1880'sLead, Zinc, Copper, SilverProducer1885, 1929
Dictator and CovingtonZinc, Silver, Lead, CopperPast Producer
St CloudSilver, Gold, Copper, Zinc, LeadProducer1968, 1982
St. Cloud Mines 1880'sGold, Silver, CopperProducer1885, 1957
St. Cloud zeolite mineZeolitesProducerClinoptilolite
U S TreasurySilver, GoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sierra County

Storms near this place

18 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winston in 18 storm reports between 2007 and 2020: 11 flash flood, 6 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 2009Flash FloodWinston$75,000Thunderstorms training over far northwestern Sierra County resulted in rainfall amounts of more than 5 inches. The Sierra County Emergency Manager reported a wall of water 12 feet high moved through the Poverty Creek area. One family was evacuated and an unoccupied trailer was washed away.
June 2017Flash FloodWinston-Spotter reported water 4 feet deep crossing Highway 52 at the low water crossing in Winston.
September 2016Flash FloodWinston-Cuchillo Creek overflowed and flooded Highway 52 in Winston. Water was up to 2 feet deep across the highway.
November 2016Flash FloodWinston-Water and debris were flowing across Highways 52 and 59. Hermosa Road was also closed.
July 2015Flash FloodWinston-Highway 52 near Winston was closed due to flooding at the low water crossings.
July 2015HailWinston-Pea to nickel sized hail accumulated 1 inch deep.
July 2015Flash FloodWinston-Water from Poverty Creek rapidly rising and crossing Highway 52 with a depth of 2 to 3 feet.
July 2015Flash FloodWinston-Water crossing highway 52 to a depth of 2.5 feet. Also pea sized hail.
August 2013Flash FloodWinston-A spotter reported low water crossings along Highway 52 were flowing about 3 to 4 feet deep with a lot of debris. Road north of Winston was impassable.
August 2013Flash FloodWinston-A spotter near Winston reported almost an inch of rain in less than an hour. Highway 52 was flooded near Winston.
July 2013Flash FloodWinston-Poverty Creek at Winston running more than a foot deep across Highway 52, road was impassable by cars.
July 2012Heavy RainWinston-A slow moving thunderstorm produced .62 inches of rainfall in Winston, NM over a one hour and forty five minute time span.
April 2010HailWinston-Nickel size hail was reported in Winston.
August 2009Flash FloodWinston-The Poverty Creek Fire Chief reported that State Highway 59 was flooded in Poverty Creek.
October 2007HailWinston-Nickel & quarter size hail fell in Winston. Some of the hail stones were like dominos.
June 2020HailWinston-no account filed
September 2016HailWinston-no account filed
August 2008HailWinston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sierra 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
Chloride1.7 miles11
Chise5.8 miles10
Grafton7.8 miles11
Monticello11.0 miles11
Placitas11.5 miles11
La Petra13.4 miles11
Hermosa13.8 miles10
Cuchillo17.0 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 WinstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6167990The 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 912468. 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.