Do you know of Winfield ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Winfield. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Winfield.
Our sources for Winfield (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Winfield other than they indicate that Winfield would be found somewhere in Ingham County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1862 and closed in 1903.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Winfield ...
We found 27 communities that share the name Winfield.
Within Michigan, the name Winfield is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 24 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Winfield [Marion County].
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Winfield.
- Arkansas
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Winfield [Scott County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Winfield.
- Colorado
- Chaffee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Winfield [Chaffee County].
- Florida
- Columbia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Winfield [Columbia County].
- Georgia
- Columbia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Winfield [Columbia County].
- Illinois
- DuPage County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Winfield [DuPage County].
- Indiana
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Winfield [Lake County].
- Iowa
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Winfield [Henry County].
- Kansas
- Cowley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Winfield [Cowley County].
- Maryland
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Winfield [Carroll County].
- Howard County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Winfield [Howard County].
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Winfield [Lincoln County].
- Nebraska
- Brown County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Winfield [Brown County].
- New Jersey
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Winfield [Union County].
- New York
- Herkimer County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Winfield [Herkimer County].
- Queens County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Winfield [Queens County].
- Ohio
- Tuscarawas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Winfield [Tuscarawas County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Winfield.
- Pennsylvania
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Winfield [Union County].
- Tennessee
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Winfield [Scott County].
- Texas
- Titus County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Winfield [Titus County].
- Utah
- Salt Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Winfield [Salt Lake County].
- West Virginia
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Winfield ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Winfield:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Winfield - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Ingham County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Ingham County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Winfield could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |