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Winchester, Nevada

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89121. It stands on Tropicana Wash. The Survey maps it on the Las Vegas NE quadrangle. 36,403 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,919 feet above sea level.

Winchester within Clark County

Population over time

2 figures

Winchester grew from 27,978 to 36,403 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
201027,978
202036,403+8,425 (+30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Winchester between 1993 and 2020, burning about 10 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/undetermined21
Fireworks2
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
1 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeCCFD 9 SUNSET PARK
14 August 2016Fireworksunder an acreClark County Fire DepartmentCLRX 76
7 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreClark County Fire DepartmentCLRX 66
4 July 1993Fireworksunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeWOLLYWOOD
27 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreClark County Fire DepartmentCLRX 72 - 95
12 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresClark County Fire DepartmentCCFD 8 - SUNSET
11 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreClark County Fire DepartmentCLRX 68
11 July 2004Smokingunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeCALICO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark 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 Winchester: 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
Henderson Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
White Rock 5 Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winchester in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2011: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
September 2011Flash FloodWinchester$100,000A few inches of water flooded the Circus Circus Adventuredome, a foot or more of water flooded homes on 15th Street between Charleston and Fremont, a car near Alexander and Losee was stranded in water up to its windows, and a few inches of water got into the Cannery Casino and the attached movie theater. In addition, several cars in the Cannery parking lot were flooded.
July 2011Heavy RainWinchester$100,000Heavy rain during a roof repair job caused the roof of a 12-unit apartment building in Las Vegas to collapse.
August 2008HailWinchester-Penny size hail fell at the intersection of Commerce and Charleston near downtown Las Vegas.

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Paradise2.7 miles24
Las Vegas3.3 miles25
Winterwood (historical)3.9 miles25
Bracken4.1 miles24
Bonanza Village4.4 miles25
Whitney4.5 miles24
Hoover City (historical)4.6 miles25
North Las Vegas4.8 miles25

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 WinchesterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q774784The 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 845753. 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.