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Windom, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Dodd City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75492. The Survey maps it on the Honey Grove quadrangle. 189 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 696 feet above sea level.

Windom within Fannin County

Population over time

3 figures

Windom fell from 245 to 189 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
2000245
2010199-46 (-19%)
2020189-10 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

148 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Windom between 2005 and 2019, burning about 3,150 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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 burning55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism12
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Natural4
Smoking2

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
9 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3410 FIRE
9 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR 3425
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceN. 1743 FIRE
26 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2013Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3440
14 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AIDE
12 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARRY HAMMET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Windom in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 1997Thunderstorm WindWindom1 hurt, $1,100,000Strong winds, estimated at more than 100 mph, caused severe building damage, demolished two grain elevators, destroyed sheds, damaged homes, and blew down power lines. Flying debris injured a man at the feed mill, where much of the damage occurred.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWindom$10,000Grain silos were reported collapsed in Windom.
March 2011HailWindom$7,000Baseball size hail was reported about 1 mile north of the city of Windom.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindWindom$6,000The roof of a house was blown off and 180 pieces of sheetrock were destroyed.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindWindom$3,000Large trees and power lines were blown down.
August 1997HailWindom-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fannin 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
Burnett1.7 miles6
Spring Hill3.1 miles6
Flag Springs3.4 miles6
Shady Grove3.5 miles6
Dodd City4.1 miles6
Lannius4.2 miles6
Honey Grove4.9 miles12
Prairie Point5.3 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 WindomAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981652The 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 1371788. 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.

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.