Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Winfield, IA

Winfield is a city in Henry County in southeastern Iowa, laid out in 1852 just north of what is now Iowa Highway 78, with the east fork of Crooked Creek flowing past its eastern edge.

Winfield stayed a small plat until the Burlington and Northwestern Railway arrived in late 1876, a narrow-gauge line that connected the town with Burlington and was extended on to Washington by the start of 1880.

In 1881 the Burlington and Western Railway was incorporated to build a second narrow-gauge line from Winfield to Oskaloosa, and in 1882 the Chicago, Burlington and Pacific built a third line through town from a Mississippi River ferry crossing at Oakville, making Winfield a junction of three-foot-gauge railroads.

The 2020 census counted 1,033 people in Winfield, living in 415 households.

Winfield's population peaked at 1,134 in the 2010 census, and the town has counted more than 1,000 residents in every census since 1980.

Winfield was the hometown of Bill Bryson Sr., the sportswriter whose son, author Bill Bryson, later wrote about the family in his memoir The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid.

Winfield is home to the Winfield-Mt. Union Community School District, whose Wolves compete in the Southeast Iowa Superconference and whose football team has played eight-player football since 2015.

Sculptor Harry Edward Stinson is among Winfield's notable natives.

The city covers just over one square mile of land in northeast Henry County, about 12 miles northeast of the county seat, Mount Pleasant.

Winfield has its own Freedom Rock, one of the painted boulders honoring military veterans that stand in communities across Iowa.