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Winchester, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Beggs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74421. The Survey maps it on the Spanish Peak quadrangle. 546 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 899 feet above sea level.

Winchester within Okmulgee County

Population over time

2 figures

Winchester grew from 516 to 546 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
2010516
2020546+30 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

47 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Winchester between 1997 and 2017, burning about 11,946 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 were 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
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism8
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
8 September 2016Arson/incendiarism25 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2012Debris and open burning16 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeHANSON
22 August 2016Debris and open burning140 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeSPANISH PEAKS
14 July 2012Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeFIRST TIME
8 March 2009Equipment and vehicle use40 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeNATURA
7 March 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeROCKET SCIENCE
3 March 2012Debris and open burning4,058 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeSPANISH PEAK
28 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined860 acresOklahoma Division of ForestrySPANISH PEAKS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okmulgee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Winchester: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Okmulgee County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winchester in 2 storm reports in 1995: 2 hail. 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
June 1995HailWinchester-no account filed
June 1995HailWinchester-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Okmulgee 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
Natura4.4 miles14
Beggs5.1 miles11
Preston5.2 miles14
Hectorville5.2 miles15
Laden5.6 miles11
Dentonville8.4 miles11
Bald Hill8.8 miles15
Okmulgee11.4 miles14

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 Q2911221The 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 1699805. 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.