Welcome to Winchester ...

Winchester is located in the Bootheel of Missouri.

Winchester is located in New Madrid County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Winchester, you might consider that their post office opened in 1813.

Time Zone: Winchester lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Winchester: 573 & 235<2>

Communities Also Named Winchester ...

While we believe that this Winchester is located in New Madrid County, we know of another 2 Missouri communities named Winchester. Those communities are located in the following counties: Clark and Saint Louis County.

Beyond Missouri, there are 51 communities that are also named Winchester - they are located in Arizona, Arkansas, California (2), Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas (2), Kentucky, Louisiana (2), Manitoba, Maryland (4), Massachusetts, Michigan (2), Mississippi, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio (5), Oklahoma (2), Ontario (2), Oregon, Tennessee (2), Texas (2), Virginia (2), Washington, Wisconsin (2) and Wyoming.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Winchester.

Adding Winchester to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Winchester in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Winchester was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Winchester post office opened in 1813.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Winchester.

Footnotes ...

<1>	If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including New Madrid, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>	When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 573 code has been Overlayed with the 235 area code. New phone numbers in the Winchester area will be assigned with one of these codes: 573 or 235. As a result, placing a call in the Winchester area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/