Winfield
a city and county-seat of Cowley co., Kan.; on the Walnut river, and on the Missouri Pacific, the St. Louis and San Francisco, and the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé railroads, 40 miles S. E. of Wichita. It contains Southwest Kansas College (M. E.), St. John's College (Luth.), high school, the Kansas State Institution for the Feeble-minded, waterworks, street railroads, Winfield Chautauqua Assembly occupying Island.
Park, National banks, and daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. It has machine shops, flour mills, etc., but the chief in.. dustry is farming. Pop. (1910) 6,700; (1920) 7,933.