Winesburg, Indiana

Winesburg, Indiana
City
City of Winesburg
Nicknames: The City of Ditches, The Cloud Sump City, The Necropolis City
Location in Montgomery County. Location of Winesburg in Whitley County. Coordinates: 41°15′37″N 85°35′30″W
Country	United States
State	Indiana
County	Whitley
Township	Etna-Troy
Elevation	840 ft (256 m)
Time Zone Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (Eastern [EST]) UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP Code	46725
Area code(s)	260

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Demographics

Historical population
Census	Pop.		%±
1860	887		—
1870	1,663		87.5%
1880	2,244		34.9%
1890	3,027		34.9%
1900	2,975		−1.7%
1910	3,448		15.9%
1920	3,499		1.5%
1930	3,805		8.7%
1940	4,219		10.9%
1950	4,745		12.5%
1960	4,803		1.2%
1970	4,911		2.2%
1980	5,091		3.7%
1990	5,706		12.1%
2000	7,077		24.0%
2010	8,750		23.6%
2019 (est.)	9,234		5.5%
U.S. Decennial Census

Culture

• The Ingmar Bergman Drive-In Theatre
• The Lions Club

• 

  The Winesburg Public Library—including the Little Turtle Branch
• The Quonset Hut Museum

Parks and recreation

Jeremy Butler serves a pickleball on the Jeremy Butler Memorial Professional Pickle Ball Courts, Throw Park.

Acquired in 1955, Throw Park (named after the American Writer and Naturalist, Henry David Thoreau, who said "The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation.") is 246.8 acres in the NW quadrant of the city. The mostly wooded and undeveloped park does feature the Jeremy Butler Memorial Professional Pickle Ball courts; two box hockey boxes; a corn hole pitch; a lighted lacrosse, flag football, soccer field; a dozen tether ball poles under repair; a competitive clothesline court; and a field for flying radio controlled scale model aircraft and Asian fighting kites. Amenities include a restroom contained in the replica of Thoreau's Walden Cabin and a drinking fountain. There is also the Cloud Sump Platform for viewing clouds adjacent to the Winesburg & Winesburg RR right-of-way.

Education

• Abraham Lincoln Middle School (the Flat-Headed Cats; founded 1866)
• James A. Garfield Middle School (the Civets; founded 1882)
• William McKinley Middle School (the Dwarf Coatis; founded 1902
• John F. Kennedy Middle School (the Shrew Tenrecs; founded 1963)
• David Émile Durkheim High School (the Bandicoots; founded 1918)
• Winesburg Normal School and Polytechnic (the Fightin' Ocelots; founded 1906)--domino champions (1907) in the I-AAA league.

Media

• WEEP-TV
• WOWO radio

Infrastructure

• Winesburg Public Works
  • Tab Gallenbeck, shoveler of road salt

Sister city

• Clyde, Ohio.

In popular culture

Winesburg, Indiana, was not the inspiration for Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life (1919). No, absolutely not.