Winnemucca can refer to:

Places

Winnemucca, Nevada Winnemucca () is the only incorporated city in Humboldt County, Nevada, United States, of which it is also the county seat. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a total population of 8,431, up 14.0 percent from the 2010 ...

* Winnemucca Indian Colony, a reservation in Nevada *

Winnemucca Lake Winnemucca Lake is a dry lake bed in northwest Nevada that features the oldest known Petroglyph#North America, petroglyphs in North America. Located astride the border between Washoe County, Nevada, Washoe and Pershing County, Nevada, Pershing ...

, a dry lake bed in Nevada

Tribes

Winnemucca Indian Colony of Nevada The Winnemucca Indian Colony of Nevada is a federally recognized tribe of Western Shoshone and Northern Paiute Indians in northwestern Nevada. Reservation The Winnemucca Indian Colony of Nevada has a reservation at in Humboldt County, Nevada. The ...

, a federally recognized Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone tribe

People

* Poito, also known as

Chief Winnemucca Winnemucca ( – 1882) (also called Wobitsawahkah, Bad Face, Winnemucca the Younger, Mubetawaka, and PoitoOntko, Gale. ''Thunder Over the Ochoco,'' Volume I: ''The Gathering Storm''. Bend, OR: Maverick Publications, Inc., 1997.) was a Northern Pa ...

, a chief of the

Northern Paiute Northern may refer to the following: Geography * North, a point in direction * Northern Europe, the northern part or region of Europe * Northern Highland, a region of Wisconsin, United States * Northern Province, Sri Lanka * Northern Range, a ...

. *

Numaga Numaga ( 1830 – November 5, 1871) was a Paiute leader during the Paiute War of 1860 that centered on Pyramid Lake in what is now Nevada in the United States. The war was caused by an influx of miners and ranchers after silver was discove ...

, also known as Young Winnemucca, a war chief of the Northern Paiute and Poito's nephew. *Poito's daughter,

Sarah Winnemucca Sarah (née Winnemucca) Hopkins ( – October 17, 1891) was a Northern Paiute writer, activist, lecturer, teacher, and school organizer. Her Northern Paiute name was Thocmentony, also spelled Tocmetone, which translates as " Shell Flower." Sara ...

, activist, educator, and advocate for the Northern Paiute. *

Truckee Truckee is an incorporated town in Nevada County, California, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 16,180, reflecting an increase of 2,316 from the 13,864 counted in the 2000 Census. History Name Truckee's ...

, also known as Old Winnemucca, a chief of the Northern Paiute. Truckee was Poito's father-in-law. {{disambig