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.
Population over time
2 figuresWinfield 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,134 | |
| 2020 | 1,033 | -101 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Winfield South quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Muscatine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2009Regional 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/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfield | $500,000 | Power lines down;home damaged |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfield | $50,000 | A 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 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfield | $40,000 | Winds damaged roof of farm house and destroyed one mobile home, six metal grain bins, three wooden bins, two outbuildings, and one barn. |
| April 2008 | Tornado (EF1) | Winfield | $10,000 | This 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfield | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Tornado (EF1) | Winfield | $2,000 | A 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfield | $1,000 | Wind 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfield | $1,000 | Winds 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfield | $1,000 | A thunderstorm moved northward across the area producing damaging winds, which knocked down power poles across highway 78 just west of Winfield. Time estimated. |
| September 2018 | Tornado (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 2016 | Hail | Winfield | - | Report was delayed and received via social media. |
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfield | - | A trained spotter reported a few power-lines were snapped in half. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfield | - | Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew down several trees in Winfield, IA around 900 pm CDT June 26. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Union | 5.2 miles | 7 | |
| Olds | 5.5 miles | 7 | |
| Swedesburg | 5.7 miles | 7 | |
| Traxler (historical) | 9.9 miles | 7 | |
| Trenton | 11.2 miles | 7 | |
| Wayland | 11.7 miles | 7 | |
| Mount Pleasant | 12.6 miles | 11 | |
| New London | 13.7 miles | 11 |
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 Winfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2231941 | The 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.




