Editing Winfield, Missouri (section)

==History==
Winfield was laid out in 1879, and named after Winfield Scott Killam, the original owner of the town site.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_lincoln.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071039/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_lincoln.html | archive-date = June 24, 2016 | url-status = live | title=Lincoln County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)| publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri| access-date= October 29, 2016}}</ref> A post office called Winfield has been in operation since 1880.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Lincoln | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=29 October 2016}}</ref>

On June 18, 2008, floodwaters opened a 150-foot breach in a primary levee along the [[Mississippi River]] in Winfield.<ref name="cnn1">{{Cite news|work=CNN |title=Mississippi inundates more farms as levees fail |url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/06/19/midwest.flooding/ |date=2008-06-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629104726/http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/06/19/midwest.flooding/ |archive-date=June 29, 2008 }}</ref> The breach allowed floodwaters to claim dozens of homes and large tracts of farmland and put pressure on a secondary levee. The breach also prompted Lincoln County emergency officials to order the evacuation of residents east of Winfield. Press reports noted that some evacuees were being housed at the local high school.<ref name="cnn1"/>

On April 9, 2009, Winfield made news <ref name="bbc1">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7991480.stm |title=Dead mayor re-elected by US town |access-date=2009-04-09 |author=British Broadcasting Corporation |date=9 April 2009 |publisher=BBC }}</ref> after it elected their popular [[mayor]], Harry Stonebraker, to a fourth term, several weeks after he died of a heart attack. This was because [[ballot paper]]s had already been printed and [[absentee voting]] had begun. He won by a landslide, securing 90% of the vote by April 9.

Winfield appointed a temporary mayor to serve until a special election was held in April 2010.<ref name="bbc1"/>