Editing Winterset, Iowa (section)

==History==
[[Image:Winterset.jpg|thumb|left|Downtown Winterset in 2009]]

Winterset was [[plat]]ted during a cool spell in the summer of 1849.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/historymadisonc00muelgoog|title=History of Madison County, Iowa, and Its People, Volume 1|publisher=S. J. Clarke Publishing Company|author=Mueller, Herman A.|year=1915|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historymadisonc00muelgoog/page/n372 282]}}</ref> The name was originally to be "Summerset", but the unseasonable coldness made the commissioners reverse this to "Winterset".<ref>{{cite journal|last=Howe|first=Samuel|date=1882|title=A Memoir of Indian Names in Iowa, With Their Signification|journal=The Annals of Iowa|page=4|url=http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=11910&context=annals-of-iowa|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151201041149/http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=11910&context=annals-of-iowa|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 1, 2015}}</ref>

On March 5, 2022, [[2022 Winterset tornado|a low-end EF4 tornado]] struck the areas just outside the city, killing six people.<ref name="NWSDesMoines">{{cite web |title=NWS Damage Survey for 3/5/22 Tornado Event - Update #3|url=https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/p.php?pil=PNSDMX&e=202203071803 |website=Iowa Environmental Mesonet |publisher=National Weather Service in Des Moines, Iowa|date=March 7, 2022|access-date=March 7, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=March 7, 2022 |title=Family remembers those who perished in central Iowa tornado |url=https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/community/winterset-iowa-tornado-victims-gofundme-fundraiser/524-c0bdc51a-b320-47db-8415-aca9c302b501 |access-date=2022-03-09 |website=weareiowa.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

{{Wide image|Winterset, Iowa - 1907.jpg|800|Downtown Winterset in 1907}}