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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.

Winfred within Lake County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Winfred 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.

YearPeople Change
2000176
201052-124 (-70%)
202038-14 (-27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

4 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2

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
2 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionJACOBSON
15 April 2008Debris and open burning33 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
4 February 2005Debris and open burning40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
17 November 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Every fire recorded in Lake 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Olson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

29 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1998Thunderstorm WindWinfred$5,000no account filed
May 2021Tornado (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 2020HailWinfred-The ground was covered by quarter size hail, accompanied by rainfall to around an inch.
September 2017Tornado (EF0)Winfred-A brief tornado damaged very old out buildings at an abandoned farmstead.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindWinfred-Tree branches were downed.
July 2015HailWinfred-Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to crops and vehicles.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWinfred-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including branches blown down.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindWinfred-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 5 inch branches blown down.
June 2005Flash FloodWinfred-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 2002Thunderstorm WindWinfred-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including some trees blown down.
July 2019HailWinfred-no account filed
July 2019HailWinfred-no account filed
September 2017HailWinfred-no account filed
May 2012HailWinfred-no account filed
August 2011HailWinfred-no account filed
August 2011HailWinfred-no account filed
May 2007HailWinfred-no account filed
May 2007HailWinfred-no account filed
July 2007HailWinfred-no account filed
July 2006HailWinfred-no account filed
July 2006HailWinfred-no account filed
May 2004HailWinfred-no account filed
July 2004HailWinfred-no account filed
July 2004HailWinfred-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindWinfred-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindWinfred-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWinfred-no account filed
June 2001HailWinfred-no account filed
June 1999HailWinfred-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Graceville Colony6.2 miles6
Junius6.3 miles9
Prairie Village10.3 miles9
Orland (historical)11.0 miles6
Ramona11.4 miles9
Orland11.7 miles6
Madison13.2 miles9
Chautauqua16.1 miles6

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 WinfredAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4256967The 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.