Winnie, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Winnie-Stowell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77665. The Survey maps it on the Stowell quadrangle. 3,162 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 26 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWinnie fell from 3,254 to 3,162 between 2010 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,254 | |
| 2020 | 3,162 | -92 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1943 USGS Stowell quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Stowell quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Stowell quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
47 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Winnie between 1998 and 2013, burning about 851 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 | 30 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 120 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SHELLHAMMER RD FIRE |
| 2 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 52 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 219 |
| 30 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GALVESTON BAY PROCESSING GRASS FIRE |
| 22 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | POWERS RD GRASS FIRE |
| 15 August 2010 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | I-10 EAST BOUND 832 FIRE |
| 6 July 2011 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAMSHIRE RD @ BRUSH ISLAND RD GRASS FIRE |
| 22 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 650 |
| 16 July 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ENGLIN RD BRUSH FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
30 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winnie in 30 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 10 thunderstorm wind, 9 flash flood, 8 hail, 2 funnel cloud. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2019 | Flash Flood | Winnie | $50,000 | Riceland Medical Center taking on water, evacuated. Six patients and staff. |
| May 2006 | Flash Flood | Winnie | $50,000 | Flooding in and around the city with at least twenty homes receiving water damage. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winnie | $35,000 | One business damaged with numerous trees down near the hospital in the town of Winnie. |
| April 2016 | Lightning | Winnie | $30,000 | A lightning strike damaged a nursing home's fire alarm system. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winnie | $25,000 | There was damage to a hangar at the Winnie-Stowell Airport. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winnie | $25,000 | Power lines down in Winnie and tree down on a car in Ahahuac. |
| November 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winnie | $20,000 | Restaurant and homes damaged. |
| April 2001 | Hail | Winnie | $20,000 | no account filed |
| March 2015 | Flash Flood | Winnie | $15,000 | There were flooded and impassable roadways, with a few flooded vehicles, around town. A local rain gauge at Spindletop Bayou near Winnie reported 6.89 inches of rainfall. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Winnie | $15,000 | Golfball-size hail. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Winnie | $15,000 | Golfball-size hail. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winnie | $15,000 | Power lines down. |
| April 2001 | Hail | Winnie | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winnie | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Flash Flood | Winnie | $10,000 | Flooding at intersection of Interstate 10 and Highway 124 in Winnie. |
| December 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winnie | $10,000 | Cars blown off the road at Interstate 10 and Winnie. Spotter estimated Windss of 60 mph. |
| April 2000 | Hail | Winnie | $10,000 | no account filed |
| January 1998 | Hail | Winnie | $10,000 | no account filed |
| December 2016 | Flash Flood | Winnie | $5,000 | Street flooding was reported in around the town of Winnie. The road was closed at the intersection of I-10 and Highway 124 due to high water. |
| September 1998 | Flash Flood | Winnie | $5,000 | High water on HWY 124 near Winnie and on Bayshore Rd. in Oak Island. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winnie | $5,000 | Trees and power poles snapped at the base in the Winnie and Stowell areas. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winnie | $4,000 | There were trees and power lines downed in Winnie. |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Winnie | $3,000 | Portions of Highway 124 flooded. |
| January 1998 | Hail | Winnie | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Winnie | $1,000 | Golf ball size hail occurred near Winnie. |
| November 2023 | Flash Flood | Winnie | - | Roads were flooded and multiple vehicles were disabled near the TX 124 and Broadway Avenue area of Winnie. |
| September 2019 | Flash Flood | Winnie | - | Numerous roads flooded and closed, unsafe for travel including most north and east of CR 1410 and Interstate 10. I10 feeder road closed due to flooding near SH 124. |
| June 2012 | Funnel Cloud | Winnie | - | A brief funnel cloud was reported with a thunderstorm occurring to the northwest of Winnie. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winnie | - | A thunderstorm downed some trees on State Highway 124. |
| June 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Winnie | - | A funnel cloud was sighted moving to the north northwest near Winnie. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stowell | 2.1 miles | 12 | |
| Figridge | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Sea Breeze | 7.0 miles | 10 | |
| Monroe City | 10.9 miles | 10 | |
| Hankamer | 13.1 miles | 12 | |
| Turtle Bayou | 15.0 miles | 12 | |
| Double Bayou | 15.7 miles | 10 | |
| Anahuac | 16.2 miles | 12 |
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 Winnie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981438 | 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 1350424. 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.






