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Winfield, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Scott Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52659. It stands on Phillips Creek. The Survey maps it on the Winfield South quadrangle. 1,033 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

Winfield within Henry County

Population over time

2 figures

Winfield fell from 1,134 to 1,033 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,134
20201,033-101 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Winfield in 2009, burning about 30 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winfield in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2003Thunderstorm WindWinfield$500,000Power lines down;home damaged
June 1995Thunderstorm WindWinfield$50,000A thunderstorm moved through southeast Iowa. One farmstead was hit in Henry County near Winfield. High winds moved one of the farm buildings off of its foundation and flattened another.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindWinfield$40,000Winds damaged roof of farm house and destroyed one mobile home, six metal grain bins, three wooden bins, two outbuildings, and one barn.
April 2008Tornado (EF1)Winfield$10,000This tornado touched down on the northwest side of Winfield at the Twin Lakes golf course. The EF1 tornado had maximum winds to 90 mph, travelled to the northeast for 1.3 miles, and had a width of 20 yards. At the golf course a large pine tree was snapped, several small trees were uprooted and a wind mill damaged. At a nearby farm, a machine shed had it/s north and east walls blown out with debris carried less than 1/4 mile. A portion of a wooden fence was blown down, and there were also power poles snapped.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindWinfield$5,000no account filed
September 2018Tornado (EF1)Winfield$2,000A NWS storm survey team determined an EF1 tornado traveled a little over one mile and caused damage to trees along its path. Some houses were damaged by falling trees. The tornado at its widest was around 200 yards. Maximum winds were around 95 MPH.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindWinfield$1,000Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew down at least 5 trees in Winfield, IA around 510 pm CDT May 12. One tree fell on the power lines of the spotters home. A power outage was also observed.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindWinfield$1,000Winds estimated to be 65 mph blew down a tree and destroyed a small out building on the south side of Winfield, IA. Time estimated.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWinfield$1,000A thunderstorm moved northward across the area producing damaging winds, which knocked down power poles across highway 78 just west of Winfield. Time estimated.
September 2018Tornado (EF0)Winfield-A NWS storm survey team determined a stronger EF0 tornado touched down northwest of Winfield Iowa. Damage to trees and corn was noted along its over a quarter mile path. The max width was estimated to be 20 yards and strongest winds were estimated to be 85 mph.
March 2016HailWinfield-Report was delayed and received via social media.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindWinfield-A trained spotter reported a few power-lines were snapped in half.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindWinfield-Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew down several trees in Winfield, IA around 900 pm CDT June 26.

Every storm recorded in Henry County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Mount Union5.2 miles7
Olds5.5 miles7
Swedesburg5.7 miles7
Traxler (historical)9.9 miles7
Trenton11.2 miles7
Wayland11.7 miles7
Mount Pleasant12.6 miles11
New London13.7 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on WinfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2231941The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 463130. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.