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.
Population over time
3 figuresWinfield 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 499 | |
| 2010 | 524 | +25 (+5%) |
| 2020 | 422 | -102 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Winfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
162 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 91 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 243 |
| 26 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 24 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 13-116 |
| 15 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GASS FIRE |
| 15 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1939 |
| 13 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 11 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
16 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Tornado (F3) | Winfield | 1 killed, $330,000 | Seven homes were destroyed. Two of the homes were swept from their slabs. |
| May 2020 | Tornado (EF1) | Winfield | $60,000 | An 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfield | $10,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts knocked down trees and damaged a large storage building. |
| October 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfield | $5,000 | Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfield | - | Structural damage reported at a truck stop in the town of Winfield. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfield | - | A large tree and power lines were blown down near the Miller's Cove community. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Winfield | - | Ping pong ball size hail fell just northeast of the Winfield community on Highway 67. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Winfield | - | Quarter size hail fell in Winfield. Report from mPING. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfield | - | NWS Observers reported several trees toppled in the high winds. |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfield | - | Large tree limbs were blown down by high winds. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Winfield | - | Trees were blown down in Mt. Pleasant and around the county. One tree was blown onto a house causing severe roof damage. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Winfield | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Winfield | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Winfield | - | no account filed |
| March 1995 | Hail | Winfield | - | no account filed |
| April 1993 | Hail | Winfield | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millers Cove | 0.8 miles | 8 | |
| West Midway | 2.3 miles | 8 | |
| White Oak Springs | 2.4 miles | 8 | |
| West New Hope | 3.6 miles | 8 | |
| Marshall Springs | 4.1 miles | 8 | |
| Farmers Academy | 4.6 miles | 8 | |
| Monticello | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Blodgett | 6.8 miles | 8 |
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 Winfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q973753 | 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 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.




