This is a list of "traditional" windmills in the United States, which usually are gristmills.
In this nation more than others, "windmill" is often used to refer to what are properly termed windpumps bringing up water for agriculture. This is at least partly due to usage by windpump builders Eclipse Windmill Company (1873) and Aermotor Windmill Company (1888, the sole surviving US "windmill" manufacturer). And it is also used by many to refer to modern wind turbines generating electricity.
This list aims to include only traditional-type windmills, with the exception that it also includes NRHP-listed historic windpumps known as windmills, such as the "Iron Turbine Windmill" in Arizona.
Windmills having coordinates below may be seen together in a map: click on "Map all coordinates using OpenSourceMap" at right of this page.
Arizona Windmill Location Type Built Notes Image Iron Turbine mill Prescott Iron windpump 1876
California Windmill Location Type Built Notes Image Murphy Windmill San Francisco Smock 1905 Appeared in the film A Jitney Elopement starring Charlie ChaplinWindmill World Dutch Windmill San Francisco Tower 1902 Windmill World Solvang Smock
Florida Windmill Location Type Built Notes Image Windmill Carl Fisher Casino, Miami Beach Tower 1920 1926
Illinois
Indiana Windmill Location Type Built Notes Image Robertson Mill Kendalville Post 2000 Replica of Robertson Mill, Williamsburg, Virginia
Iowa Windmill Location Type Built Notes Image Danish Mill Elk Horn Smock 1976 Built in 1848 at Nørre-Snede, Denmark. Dismantled 1975 and re-erected at Elk Horn in 1976. Vermeer Mill Pella Historical Village, Pella Smock 2002
Kansas Windmill Location Type Built Notes Image Windmill Reamsville Smock 1879 Moved to Smith Center, 1938 Old Dutch Mill Smith Center Smock 1938 Old Dutch Mill Wamego Tower 1925 Windmill near Wamego ( north of town) Tower 1879 Dismantled 1925 and re-erected at Wamego.
Maine Windmill Location Type Built Notes Image Bailey Farm mill Anson 1905 Hatch's Mill Castine c18001815 Windmill at 12 Madockawando Rd. 12 Madockawando Rd., Castine "antique windmill folly was built as a piano studio over a century ago"
Massachusetts
Michigan Windmill Location Type Built Notes Image Greenfield Mill Dearborn Smock 1660 in Massachusetts Windmill World Hickory Corners Smock 1927 Moved here from Heeg, Friesland, Netherlands. De Zwaan Holland Smock 1761 in the Netherlands
Minnesota Location Name of milland coordinates Type Built Notes Image Seppman Mill Minneopa State Park, Mankato Tower 1864
Missouri Windmill Location Type Built Notes Image Bevo Mill St. Louis Smock
New Jersey Windmill Location Type Built Notes Image Volendam Mill Holland Township Smock 1965 Great Western Mill]] Paulus Hook, New Jersey Smock 1806 Edge's father shipped it to him from England. Built in Brooklyn Heights, moved to Paulus Hook 1812, moved to Southold 1839, Burnt 1870 ]]
New Mexico Windmill Location Type Built Notes Image Eclipse mill Moriarty 1890
New York
Rhode Island
South Carolina Windmill Location Type Built Notes Image Windmill Marsh Island 1789 Demolished 1852.
South Dakota Location Name of milland coordinates Type Built Notes Image Holland Grist Windmill Milbank Smock mill 1882 Windmill World
Tennessee Windmill Location Type Built Notes Image McKenzie Windmill Georgetown Iron windpump 1931
Texas Windmill Location Type Built Notes Image Canon Ranch Railroad Eclipse Windmill Sheffield Iron windpump 1898 Victoria Grist Windmill Victoria Smock 1870
Vermont Windmill Location Type Built Notes Image Windmill Alburgh Tower c1731 Standing 1749
Virginia Windmill Location Type Built Notes Image Flowerdew Hundred Mill Flowerdew Hundred 1612 Flowerdew Hundred Mill Flowerdew Hundred Post 1978 Robertson Mill Williamsburg Post 1621 Standing in 1723. Robertson Mill Williamsburg Post Buckner's Mill Yorktown Smock 1711 Destroyed by tornado in late 19th century Akers′ Mill Yorktown Smock 2011 Reconstruction of William Buckner's Mill near original site
Washington Windmill Location Type Built Notes Image Cambern Mill Spokane 1929
Wisconsin Windmill Location Type Built Notes Image Davidson Windmill Superior Smock 1900 Eight sails Little Chute Windmill Little Chute Smock Constructed by Verbij Hoogmade BV Waupun Dutch Windmill Waupun Smock Pilgrim Family Farmstead Windmill at Robert M. Lamp Cottage Lake Mendota, Madison Windmill built 1902–03 to bring water to Frank Lloyd Wright-designed cottage on an island in Lake Mendota. Romeo and Juliet Windmill
Insular Areas Puerto Rico Windmill Type Built Notes Image Ingenio Azucarero Vives with Guayama Tower 1828 Spanish colonial sugar mill
US Virgin Islands
Windmill Type Built Notes Image Estate La Reine Estate Mount Victory
See also List of windmills Wind power in Rhode Island
Notes Known building dates are in bold text. Non-bold text denotes first known date. Iron windpumps are outside the scope of this list unless listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Sources
Unless stated otherwise, the source for all entries is the Windmill World website.
References