Winchester
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census-designated place in Riverside County, California, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- California
- County
- Riverside
- Total
- 8.010 sq mi (20.746 km )
- Land
- 8.010 sq mi (20.746 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0 km ) 0%
- Elevation
- 1,473 ft (449 m)
- Density
- 383.0/sq mi (147.9/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-8 ( PST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-7 (PDT)
- Fips code
- 06-85894
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- census-designated place in the United States
- Official name
- Winchester
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Riverside County
- Population
- 3068
- Area
- 20.024725
- Elevation
- 449
- Time zone
- UTC−08:00
- Image
- Winchester california 1.jpg
- Households
- 744
- Dialing code
- 951
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- Commons category
- Winchester, California
- postal code
- 92596
- water as percent of area
- 0
- water area
- 0
- per capita income
- 18401
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Encyclopedic overview
Winchester is a census-designated place (CDP) in Riverside County, California, USA. As of the 2020 census, the CDP had a total population of 3,068, up from 2,534 at the 2010 census.
Winchester was founded in 1886 in Pleasant Valley in what was then San Diego County. The town was named after the widow of Horace Winchester, Mrs. Amy Winchester.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Winchester” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.