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.
Population over time
2 figuresWinchester 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 27,978 | |
| 2020 | 36,403 | +8,425 (+30%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 25 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.
- 1907 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
- 1908 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1952 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Las Vegas NE quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1973 USGS Las Vegas NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:100000, 4 printings
Fires near this place
24 since 1993Regional 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/undetermined | 21 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Nevada District Office | CCFD 9 SUNSET PARK |
| 14 August 2016 | Fireworks | under an acre | Clark County Fire Department | CLRX 76 |
| 7 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Clark County Fire Department | CLRX 66 |
| 4 July 1993 | Fireworks | under an acre | Southern Nevada District Office | WOLLYWOOD |
| 27 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Clark County Fire Department | CLRX 72 - 95 |
| 12 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Clark County Fire Department | CCFD 8 - SUNSET |
| 11 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Clark County Fire Department | CLRX 68 |
| 11 July 2004 | Smoking | under an acre | Southern Nevada District Office | CALICO |
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 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henderson Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| White Rock 5 Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2008Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2011 | Flash Flood | Winchester | $100,000 | A 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 2011 | Heavy Rain | Winchester | $100,000 | Heavy rain during a roof repair job caused the roof of a 12-unit apartment building in Las Vegas to collapse. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Winchester | - | Penny size hail fell at the intersection of Commerce and Charleston near downtown Las Vegas. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paradise | 2.7 miles | 24 | |
| Las Vegas | 3.3 miles | 25 | |
| Winterwood (historical) | 3.9 miles | 25 | |
| Bracken | 4.1 miles | 24 | |
| Bonanza Village | 4.4 miles | 25 | |
| Whitney | 4.5 miles | 24 | |
| Hoover City (historical) | 4.6 miles | 25 | |
| North Las Vegas | 4.8 miles | 25 |
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 Winchester | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q774784 | 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 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.









