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Winfield, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Winfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46307. The Survey maps it on the Crown Point quadrangle. 7,181 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 709 feet above sea level.

Winfield within Lake County

Population over time

2 figures

Winfield grew from 4,383 to 7,181 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
20104,383
20207,181+2,798 (+64%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

16 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Winfield between 2001 and 2005, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1
Other causes1
Debris and open burning1

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
26 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 August 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 June 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 May 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
30 May 2005Other causesunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
25 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Winfield: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lake Co. Hwy. Dept.StoneProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

9 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winfield in 9 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flood. 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
August 2007LightningWinfield$20,000A house under construction was struck by lightning. The house suffered fire and water damage.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWinfield-Photos shared on social media showed one six inch and one four inch diameter tree limb down near East 108th St and Pike Rd in Winfield.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWinfield-A tree was uprooted near Winfield.
January 2020FloodWinfield-Flooding was reported on 117th Avenue at Decatur Street.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindWinfield-Two Pine trees were snapped 1 to 2 feet above their base.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindWinfield-A private weather station measured a wind gust to 60 mph.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindWinfield-Multiple trees were uprooted or snapped at the base. Large branches were blown down across a wide area around Winfield and Lakes of the Four Seasons. Winds were estimated around 90 to 100 mph.
June 2012HailWinfield-Penny size hail was reported near Interstate 65 and Highway 231.
July 2012HailWinfield-Nickel size hail was reported near Interstate 65 and Route 231.

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Deer Creek1.4 miles14
Palmer2.2 miles13
Leroy3.1 miles12
Gentle Manor Estates4.0 miles14
Wald View4.2 miles14
Shady Lawn4.3 miles14
Crown Point4.8 miles14
Southeast Grove5.1 miles12

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 Q515184The 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 446178. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.