Winona, Minnesota Winona Winona, Minnesota Clockwise from top-left: the Empire Builder at Winona station, Merchants National Bank, Sugar Loaf, Watkins Incorporated, Basilica of St.
Clockwise from top-left: the Empire Builder at Winona station, Merchants National Bank, Sugar Loaf, Watkins Incorporated, Basilica of St.
Location of the town/city of Winonawithin Winona Countyin the state of Minnesota Location of the town/city of Winona inside Winona County County Winona Website City of Winona Winona is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Winona County, in the state of Minnesota. Located in picturesque bluff nation on the Mississippi River, its most substantial physical landmark is Sugar Loaf.
The town/city is titled after legendary figure Winona, said to have been the first-born daughter of Chief Wapasha (Wabasha) III. The populace was 27,592 at the 2010 census.
Main article: History of Winona, Minnesota Valley of the Mississippi from Winona, about 1898 The town/city of Winona began on the site of a Native American village titled Keoxa.
For a time, Winona had more millionaires than any other town/city of its size in the United States. The barns and steamboat transit industries helped Winona expanded into a small town/city that diversified into wheat milling, and lumber production.
The stockyards fitness grew and the Winona Railway Bridge, assembled of steel and iron with a steam-powered swingspan over the river, was the second stockyards bridge to span the Mississippi.
Winona has two historic districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places that combine into a single small-town historic precinct administered by the city's Heritage Preservation Commission.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 24.13 square miles (62.50 km2); 18.84 square miles (48.80 km2) is territory and 5.29 square miles (13.70 km2) is water. Winona's major suburbs are Goodview, Stockton, Minnesota City and Rollingstone to the west, Homer to the southeast and Bluff Siding is 3 miles directly athwart the interstate bridge to the north and Fountain City to the north.
Rochester is 44 miles to the west of Winona, La Crescent is 21 miles to the south, and La Crosse is 30 miles to the southeast.
Winona's weather station records the warmest climate of any in Minnesota, with a normal year-round average (1971 2000) temperature of 48.9 F,"Temperature Summary Station: 219067 WINONA, MN,1971 2000 NCDC Normals".
Climate data for Winona, Minnesota (1981-2010, snowfall&extremes 1893-present) The United States Office of Management and Budget has designated Winona as the principal town/city of the Winona, MN Micropolitan Travel Destination ( SA). A Mississippi River boathouse improve in Winona.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 18.0% under the age of 18, 27.5% from 18 to 24, 22.2% from 25 to 44, 18.0% from 45 to 64, and 14.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
Highway 61, Minnesota Highway 43 and Wisconsin State Highway 54 are the chief routes into the city.
Winona Municipal Airport - Max Conrad Field serves general aviation in the area.
Winona is home to the command posts of the Watkins Corporation, Fastenal, Thern Inc., RTP Company, We-No-Nah Canoe, United Building Centers, Badger Equipment Company, Winona Lighting, Win - Craft Sports, and Winona Pattern & Mold. Winona is also known as the stained glass capital of the United States. Winona is the setting of the Civil War era romance novel, Ladyslipper by Winona native, Donna G.
According to the City's 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 2 Winona Health 1,200 T-4 Winona State University 712 9 County of Winona 291 Winona is positioned in Minnesota's 1st congressional district, represented by Mankato educator Tim Walz, a Democrat.
At the state level, Winona is positioned in Senate District 28, represented by Republican Jeremy Miller, and in House District 28 - A, represented by Democrat Gene Pelowski.
Winona became the site of the first normal school west of the Mississippi in 1858 with the establishment of Winona Normal School (now Winona State University).
This was the beginning of Winona's tradition as a center of higher education.
After Saint Mary's became co-ed in 1969, Saint Teresa closed down in 1988, and its facilities are now used, owned, and/or directed by Winona State University, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, and Cotter High School.
Minnesota State College-Southeast Technical also has a ground in Winona.
Run by Independent School District 861, the small-town enhance school fitness includes five elementary schools (three in the town/city of Winona), the Winona Middle School, and the Winona Senior High School.
The Winona Area Catholic Schools fitness includes St.
Bluffview Montessori Charter School, positioned in Winona, was the first charter Montessori, and the second charter school overall in the United States.
Winona has two newspapers: the Winona Daily News, a daily morning paper; and the Winona Post, a semi-weekly paper with mid-week and Sunday editions.
Winona receives TV signals from neighboring cities, including a several channels each from La Crosse, Rochester, Eau Claire, and the Twin Cities, although what can be received depends on the locale within the area, as the extensive fitness of valleys and ridges may block any or all signals.
89.5 FM KQAL College Winona State University 92.5 FM KMSR College Saint Mary's University of Minnesota Winona Ryder, actress (born in close-by Olmsted County, Minnesota but titled after the city) Winona Sister-City Website "Background Information City of Winona's Evolution" (PDF).
Opportunity Winona.
Port Authority of Winona.
Winona Daily News reprinted at Diversity Foundation.
Winona By Walter Bennick page 8 a b c Minnesota: A State Guide page 263 "WINONA, MINNESOTA - Climate Summary".
"Monthly Averages for Winona, MN (55987)".
Portrait and Biographical Record of Winona County, Minnesota: Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County.
"Winona Pattern & Mold".
"Winona business makes glass into art".
"City of Winona, Minnesota Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the Year Ended December 31, 2011" (PDF).
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