Winfield, Missouri
city in Missouri, United States
Winfield is a city in Lincoln County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2020 census, Winfield had a population of 1,518.
History
Winfield was laid out in 1879, and named after Winfield Scott Killam, the original owner of the town site. A post office called Winfield has been in operation since 1880.
On June 18, 2008, floodwaters opened a 150-foot breach in a primary levee along the Mississippi River in Winfield. The breach allowed floodwaters to claim dozens of homes and large tracts of farmland and put pressure on a secondary levee. The breach also prompted Lincoln County emergency officials to order the evacuation of residents east of Winfield. Press reports noted that some evacuees were being housed at the local high school.
On April 9, 2009, Winfield elected their mayor, Harry Stonebraker, for a fourth term, several weeks after he died of a heart attack. This was because ballot papers had already been printed and absentee voting had begun.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Winfield, Missouri” is city in Missouri, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Winfield, Missouri and city, not as a finished interpretation.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2051482. Authority coordinates are 38.996, -90.740. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 1879, 1880 and 2008.
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This entry incorporates text from “Winfield, Missouri” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.