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.

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Source: 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..