Winfred, South Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Winfred Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57076. The Survey maps it on the Winfred quadrangle. 38 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,677 feet above sea level.
On record in Winfred
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
J. Whitney Goff Round Barnlisted 2004
Population over time
3 figuresWinfred fell from 176 to 38 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 176 | |
| 2010 | 52 | -124 (-70%) |
| 2020 | 38 | -14 (-27%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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 Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Winfred quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Salem quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Winfred between 2005 and 2016, burning about 75 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 | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | JACOBSON |
| 15 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 33 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 4 February 2005 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 17 November 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
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 Winfred: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Olson Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
29 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winfred in 29 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 18 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfred | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Tornado (EFU) | Winfred | - | A landspout was witnessed by a Lake County deputy for around 5 minutes. The weak tornado touched down around a mile south of Winfred in a lowland area, and tracked east northeast through open wetlands and fields, and produced no damage while only dirt was lofted. The tornado lifted south of State Highway 34 southwest of the intersection with 446th Avenue. The maximum path width during the track was 25 yards. Tornado timing, path, and width based on eyewitness accounts and video evidence. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Winfred | - | The ground was covered by quarter size hail, accompanied by rainfall to around an inch. |
| September 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Winfred | - | A brief tornado damaged very old out buildings at an abandoned farmstead. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfred | - | Tree branches were downed. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Winfred | - | Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to crops and vehicles. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfred | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including branches blown down. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfred | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 5 inch branches blown down. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Winfred | - | Heavy rainfall of around 4 inches caused flooding of numerous county and local roads, as well as flooding of fields and other low areas. The flooding damaged some roads, but the amount of damage was not known. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfred | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including some trees blown down. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Winfred | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Winfred | - | no account filed |
| September 2017 | Hail | Winfred | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Winfred | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Winfred | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Winfred | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Winfred | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Winfred | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Winfred | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Winfred | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Winfred | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Winfred | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Winfred | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Winfred | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfred | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfred | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfred | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Winfred | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Winfred | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graceville Colony | 6.2 miles | 6 | |
| Junius | 6.3 miles | 9 | |
| Prairie Village | 10.3 miles | 9 | |
| Orland (historical) | 11.0 miles | 6 | |
| Ramona | 11.4 miles | 9 | |
| Orland | 11.7 miles | 6 | |
| Madison | 13.2 miles | 9 | |
| Chautauqua | 16.1 miles | 6 |
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 Winfred | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4256967 | 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 1259047. 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.



