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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Geography

The West Fork of the Fork River in Winesburg, Indiana.

The West Fork of the Fork River brought early settlers to Winesburg, Indiana.

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

Economy

Factories, businesses, employers of note

• Blister's Drug
• The cheese plant
• The eraser works
• The Floss Factory—closed
• John's Awful Awful restaurant
• The Winesburg Moist Towelette Company
• Rupp and Ottings Market

Cultural institutions and points of interest

The Ingmar Bergman Drive-In Theatre Damm Theatre—closed Jersey Berm Self-Storage Jonesing Funereal Funerals

The Lions Club The Winesburg Motor Speedway—closed The Winesburg Public Library—including the Little Turtle Branch The Winesburg YMCA The Quonset Hut Museum

Parks and recreation

The Winesburg Park Board is responsible for the development and maintenance of all parks within the city limits.

Descendants of Jeremy Butler serve up a pickle ball on the Jeremy Butler Memorial Professional Pickle Ball Courts, Throw Park.

Swan Boats Parked on the West Fork of the Fork River.

• 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 and the popular Swan Boats on the West Fork of the Fork River.
• The Attractive Nuisance Park has been closed since 1996. Court case is still pending.
• FDR National Shelter Belt: Winesburg Segment: Weeping Willow Windbreak

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)
• The Winesburg Normal School and Polytechnic (the Fightin' Ocelots; founded 1906)--domino champions (1907) in the I-AAA league.
• The Winesburg School of Chiropractic

Media

• WEEP-TV
• WOWO radio

Infrastructure

• The Winesburg Cancer Center
• The Winesburg Necropoli
• The Winesburg Park Board
• The Winesburg Post Office
• The Winesburg Public Works
  • Tab Gallenbeck, shoveler of road salt
• The Winesburg Waterworks

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.