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Winkler
Navarro County, Texas

Winkler sits on Farm Road 416 on the Navarro-Freestone county line, about four miles from Walker Lake. It was founded around 1879 and named for Judge Clinton M. Winkler; by 1882 it had seventy-five people, three general stores, a gin and two steam gristmills, and it peaked at about a hundred fifty residents in 1925. It has since settled at a small, steady population, twenty-six people as of the most recent count, one of the few communities on this list still standing rather than emptied out.
From Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas, entry for Winkler, Navarro/Freestone County (Christopher Long, 1952; revised 1995); USGS GNIS feature 1379285, filed under Freestone County..