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Winters, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Winters census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79567. The Survey maps it on the Winters quadrangle. 2,345 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,841 feet above sea level.

Winters within Runnels County

Population over time

2 figures

Winters fell from 2,562 to 2,345 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
20102,562
20202,345-217 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

18 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Winters between 2011 and 2015, burning about 721 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE STARTED BY TRACTOR
3 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMETCALF RANCH
13 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2025 SANDY RANCH
21 July 2012Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
20 July 2011Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceELM CREEK RESERVOIR FIRE
17 July 2012Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceANTILEY RANCH
9 June 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWHEAT FEILD FIRE
26 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWHEAT FIELD

Every fire recorded in Runnels County

Storms near this place

56 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winters in 56 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 34 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
May 2002Thunderstorm WindWinters$15,000,000Very high thunderstorm winds along with baseball size hail produced widespread damage across the town of Winters. Numerous windows were broken out by the wind and hail. Numerous trees were also reported blown down by the high winds.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindWinters$100,000no account filed
September 1996Flash FloodWinters$100,000no account filed
September 1993Thunderstorm WindWinters$50,000The Runnels County Sheriff's Office reported that the roof of a mobile home was torn off, a pump house was damaged and trees were downed 5 miles south of Winters.
August 1996Flash FloodWinters$50,000no account filed
April 2007Thunderstorm WindWinters$12,000Thunderstorm winds knocked over a tree onto a Veterinary clinic. Other damage was noted near Elm Lake as well.
June 2007Flash FloodWinters$9,000Winters Fire Department performed a high water rescue of a motorist whose vehicle was swept off County Road 300 just northwest of Winters. The fire department also reported numerous flooded roads in and around Winters.
August 2005Flash FloodWinters$9,000Runnels and Winters law enforcement officials reported up to a foot of water flooding streets in the town of Winters. Several vehicles stalled out in the flood waters.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindWinters$5,000A severe thunderstorm produced high winds across Winters in northern Runnels County, downing a handful of large trees.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindWinters$5,000High winds downed power lines, blew siding off area homes, and knocked small tree limbs off of trees across the community of Winters.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindWinters$1,500High winds toppled several large trees and downed power lines.
October 1998Thunderstorm WindWinters$1,000High winds downed several large tree limbs
May 2025HailWinters-The public reported that there were possibly broken windows from the golf ball size hail in Winters.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindWinters-There were power poles blown down in Winters due to strong winds.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWinters-Law enforcement reported six to seven large trees snapped and uprooted at the Winters Country Club. Also, a roof was damaged at the same location.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindWinters-The emergency manager reported power lines down at the Spring Market off Main Street.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindWinters-A trained spotter estimated winds gusting to near 60 mph.
May 2016HailWinters-Trained spotter reported pea to nickel size hail on the north side of Winters.
May 2016HailWinters-A trained spotter reported quarter to half dollar size hail, approximately 1 mile northwest of Winters.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindWinters-Law enforcement estimated 60 mph winds.
May 2012HailWinters-Pea to golf ball size hail was reported.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindWinters-A grain warehouse was damaged in Winters by strong thunderstorm winds. A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm winds at 60 mph as it broke some tree limbs near Winters.
September 2009Thunderstorm WindWinters-Several powerlines and trees were reported down in Winters.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindWinters-Wind gust was from the rear flank downdraft.
April 2003Flash FloodWinters-Water over the intersections of highway 153 and 83.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Winters-Spotter reported a brief tornado just to the north of Winters. The tornado remained over open country just north of Winters.. The damage received at Winters was from high winds and hail.
May 2002HailWinters-Baseball size hail fell in Winters.
October 1998HailWinters-Walnut size hail
May 2016HailWinters-no account filed
April 2015HailWinters-no account filed
October 2014HailWinters-no account filed
June 2014HailWinters-no account filed
September 2011HailWinters-no account filed
May 2009HailWinters-no account filed
April 2006HailWinters-no account filed
June 2006HailWinters-no account filed
February 2005HailWinters-no account filed
May 2005HailWinters-no account filed
May 2005HailWinters-no account filed
April 2004HailWinters-no account filed
April 2003HailWinters-no account filed
April 2003HailWinters-no account filed
April 2003HailWinters-no account filed
April 2003HailWinters-no account filed
April 2002HailWinters-no account filed
March 2002HailWinters-no account filed
April 2002HailWinters-no account filed
May 2002HailWinters-no account filed
February 2001HailWinters-no account filed
October 1998HailWinters-no account filed
June 1997HailWinters-no account filed
June 1997HailWinters-no account filed
June 1997HailWinters-no account filed
June 1996HailWinters-no account filed
May 1996HailWinters-no account filed
May 1996HailWinters-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Runnels 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
Pumphrey7.0 miles12
Hatchel7.4 miles13
Drasco8.4 miles12
Wilmeth8.5 miles13
Crews9.7 miles12
Wingate9.9 miles12
Blanton10.5 miles11
Norton10.5 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 WintersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969524The 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 1350435. 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.