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Winona, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Winona census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75792. It stands on Simpson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Winona quadrangle. 623 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 331 feet above sea level.

Winona within Smith County

Population over time

2 figures

Winona grew from 576 to 623 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
2010576
2020623+47 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

251 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 251 fires within 5 miles of Winona between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,643 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 7 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 burning131
Missing data/not specified/undetermined77
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMITH 15:15
9 September 2005Smoking10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 231
9 September 2004Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 120
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
5 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceI-20 MM 564
29 September 2006Debris and open burning35 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 575

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Smith County

Storms near this place

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winona in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2007Thunderstorm WindWinona$500,000Numerous trees and power lines were downed. Trees were reported down on several homes and at least 1 vehicle. One resident was temporarily trapped by debris from a tree falling across her home but she was uninjured.
August 2022Tornado (EF1)Winona$25,000An EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 95 mph touched down just south of County Road 345 on the west side of Winona. There, it lofted a small metal outbuilding, throwing it across the road, while also uprooting a tree. It continued on to clip the Winona Independent School District campus, where it lifted a training sled as it crossed the football field and damaged the roof of a dugout. The tornado just missed hitting the school buildings by only around 200 yards. The tornado continued on to hit another small metal outbuilding, rolling and destroying it before crossing FM 16. The tornado then paralleled Hussey Circle, downing several more large branches and snapping a large tree which fell into a home. Additional hardwood trees were uprooted as it crossed County Road 155, where the tornado reached its widest point before lifting shortly thereafter.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindWinona$15,000Powerlines down along FM16.
July 1997Flash FloodWinona$9,000Very heavy rains (nearly 8 inches in four hours) caused flooding across northern portions of the county. The heaviest flooding occurred near Winona in the Red Springs community. Several homes were flooded and numerous roads leading into and out of the community were impassable including CR 32, 2710, and 317. FM 16 and FM 2015 were also underwater and closed.
November 2024Thunderstorm WindWinona-Trees were downed and sheet metal was blown off of a building in Winona.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindWinona-Numerous trees and power lines downed in and around Winona.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindWinona-A tree was blown down across FM 2015 south of FM 16.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindWinona-Trees were downed near Winona.
April 2016HailWinona-A photo was posted to the KLTV Facebook page of ping pong ball size hail that fell in Winona.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindWinona-Trees and powerlines were downed in Winona, Texas.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindWinona-Several large trees uprooted along Highway 16 west of Highway 155.
April 2008HailWinona-Hail reported in Winona, Texas.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindWinona-Numerous trees and powelines downed.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindWinona-Trees were downed across FM 16.
January 1998Tornado (F0)Winona-HP Supercell developed along a quasi-stationary front and moved northeast. This Supercell produced a family of three tornadoes, numerous microbursts and giant hail. A meso was detected by dopplar radar with the HP supercell. As the supercell developed, massive mid level convergence occurred resulting in giant hail. The evolution continued resulting in a bow echo pattern where a weak tornado occurred in the comma head. In this second tornado, damage consisted of numerous snapped and fallen trees. No structures were present.
November 2004HailWinona-no account filed
November 2004HailWinona-no account filed
June 2001HailWinona-no account filed
May 2000HailWinona-no account filed
April 1998HailWinona-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindWinona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Smith 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
Waters Bluff2.7 miles13
Starrville3.0 miles15
Midway3.6 miles15
Owentown4.0 miles15
Sand Flat6.0 miles15
Red Springs6.2 miles12
Shady Grove6.9 miles15
Pine Springs8.2 miles15

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 WinonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977312The 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 1350427. 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.