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.
Population over time
3 figuresWindom 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 245 | |
| 2010 | 199 | -46 (-19%) |
| 2020 | 189 | -10 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1903 USGS Paris quadrangle1:125000
- 1947 USGS Honey Grove quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Honey Grove quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Honey Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
148 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 55 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 52 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 3410 FIRE |
| 9 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE CR 3425 |
| 5 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | N. 1743 FIRE |
| 26 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 17 September 2013 | Natural | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 3440 |
| 14 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MUTUAL AIDE |
| 12 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HARRY HAMMET |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windom | 1 hurt, $1,100,000 | Strong 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windom | $10,000 | Grain silos were reported collapsed in Windom. |
| March 2011 | Hail | Windom | $7,000 | Baseball size hail was reported about 1 mile north of the city of Windom. |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windom | $6,000 | The roof of a house was blown off and 180 pieces of sheetrock were destroyed. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windom | $3,000 | Large trees and power lines were blown down. |
| August 1997 | Hail | Windom | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burnett | 1.7 miles | 6 | |
| Spring Hill | 3.1 miles | 6 | |
| Flag Springs | 3.4 miles | 6 | |
| Shady Grove | 3.5 miles | 6 | |
| Dodd City | 4.1 miles | 6 | |
| Lannius | 4.2 miles | 6 | |
| Honey Grove | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Prairie Point | 5.3 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 Windom | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981652 | 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 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.







