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Winfield, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Winfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75493. The Survey maps it on the Winfield quadrangle. 422 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 456 feet above sea level.

Winfield within Titus County

Population over time

3 figures

Winfield fell from 499 to 422 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
2000499
2010524+25 (+5%)
2020422-102 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

162 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Winfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 818 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 9 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 burning91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism9
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural5
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
29 September 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 243
26 September 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
24 September 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13-116
15 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGASS FIRE
15 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1939
13 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Titus 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 Winfield: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
UnknownClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Titus County

Storms near this place

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winfield in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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
May 1999Tornado (F3)Winfield1 killed, $330,000Seven homes were destroyed. Two of the homes were swept from their slabs.
May 2020Tornado (EF1)Winfield$60,000An EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 100 mph touched down near the intersection of County Road 1220 and County Road 1230 in Western Titus County several miles northeast of the Winfield community, where it snapped and uprooted numerous trees along County Road 1230 as it moved north. This tornado then flipped a two ton cattle trailer numerous times about 75-80 yards from a pasture to the front yard of a home, with two other smaller trailers also thrown about 75 yards in front of the home as well. It is believed that these trailers knocked down the support beams of the front porch of the home, with a license plate to the cattle trailer found about 1.5 miles down the road adjacent to a pond at a nearby farm. Several more trees were snapped and uprooted along and north of the intersection of County Road 1230 and County Road 1165, before the tornado lifted in a pasture just to the west of County Road 1165.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWinfield$10,000Thunderstorm wind gusts knocked down trees and damaged a large storage building.
October 1993Thunderstorm WindWinfield$5,000Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindWinfield-Structural damage reported at a truck stop in the town of Winfield.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWinfield-A large tree and power lines were blown down near the Miller's Cove community.
April 2022HailWinfield-Ping pong ball size hail fell just northeast of the Winfield community on Highway 67.
April 2021HailWinfield-Quarter size hail fell in Winfield. Report from mPING.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindWinfield-NWS Observers reported several trees toppled in the high winds.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindWinfield-Large tree limbs were blown down by high winds.
May 1993HailWinfield-Trees were blown down in Mt. Pleasant and around the county. One tree was blown onto a house causing severe roof damage.
June 2011HailWinfield-no account filed
August 2011HailWinfield-no account filed
March 2008HailWinfield-no account filed
March 1995HailWinfield-no account filed
April 1993HailWinfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Titus 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
Millers Cove0.8 miles8
West Midway2.3 miles8
White Oak Springs2.4 miles8
West New Hope3.6 miles8
Marshall Springs4.1 miles8
Farmers Academy4.6 miles8
Monticello5.1 miles8
Blodgett6.8 miles8

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 WinfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q973753The 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 1350413. 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.