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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.

Winnie within Chambers County

Population over time

2 figures

Winnie 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.

YearPeople Change
20103,254
20203,162-92 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

47 since 1998

Regional 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 burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
20 September 2009Debris and open burning120 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHELLHAMMER RD FIRE
2 September 2009Debris and open burning52 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 219
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGALVESTON BAY PROCESSING GRASS FIRE
22 August 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePOWERS RD GRASS FIRE
15 August 2010Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceI-10 EAST BOUND 832 FIRE
6 July 2011Natural1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAMSHIRE RD @ BRUSH ISLAND RD GRASS FIRE
22 July 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 650
16 July 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceENGLIN RD BRUSH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Storms near this place

30 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2019Flash FloodWinnie$50,000Riceland Medical Center taking on water, evacuated. Six patients and staff.
May 2006Flash FloodWinnie$50,000Flooding in and around the city with at least twenty homes receiving water damage.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindWinnie$35,000One business damaged with numerous trees down near the hospital in the town of Winnie.
April 2016LightningWinnie$30,000A lightning strike damaged a nursing home's fire alarm system.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindWinnie$25,000There was damage to a hangar at the Winnie-Stowell Airport.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindWinnie$25,000Power lines down in Winnie and tree down on a car in Ahahuac.
November 2004Thunderstorm WindWinnie$20,000Restaurant and homes damaged.
April 2001HailWinnie$20,000no account filed
March 2015Flash FloodWinnie$15,000There 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 2006HailWinnie$15,000Golfball-size hail.
April 2006HailWinnie$15,000Golfball-size hail.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindWinnie$15,000Power lines down.
April 2001HailWinnie$15,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindWinnie$15,000no account filed
June 2004Flash FloodWinnie$10,000Flooding at intersection of Interstate 10 and Highway 124 in Winnie.
December 1995Thunderstorm WindWinnie$10,000Cars blown off the road at Interstate 10 and Winnie. Spotter estimated Windss of 60 mph.
April 2000HailWinnie$10,000no account filed
January 1998HailWinnie$10,000no account filed
December 2016Flash FloodWinnie$5,000Street 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 1998Flash FloodWinnie$5,000High water on HWY 124 near Winnie and on Bayshore Rd. in Oak Island.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindWinnie$5,000Trees and power poles snapped at the base in the Winnie and Stowell areas.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindWinnie$4,000There were trees and power lines downed in Winnie.
August 2003Flash FloodWinnie$3,000Portions of Highway 124 flooded.
January 1998HailWinnie$3,000no account filed
May 2011HailWinnie$1,000Golf ball size hail occurred near Winnie.
November 2023Flash FloodWinnie-Roads were flooded and multiple vehicles were disabled near the TX 124 and Broadway Avenue area of Winnie.
September 2019Flash FloodWinnie-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 2012Funnel CloudWinnie-A brief funnel cloud was reported with a thunderstorm occurring to the northwest of Winnie.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindWinnie-A thunderstorm downed some trees on State Highway 124.
June 2011Funnel CloudWinnie-A funnel cloud was sighted moving to the north northwest near Winnie.

Every storm recorded in Chambers 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
Stowell2.1 miles12
Figridge4.0 miles12
Sea Breeze7.0 miles10
Monroe City10.9 miles10
Hankamer13.1 miles12
Turtle Bayou15.0 miles12
Double Bayou15.7 miles10
Anahuac16.2 miles12

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 WinnieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981438The 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.