Winfield, Kansas Winfield, Kansas Location inside Cowley County and Kansas Location inside Cowley County and Kansas State Kansas Winfield is a town/city and governmental center of county of Cowley County, Kansas, United States. It is situated along the Walnut River in South Central Kansas.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 12,301 and second most crowded city of Cowley County. Winfield Scott, who promised to build the town a church in exchange for the naming rights. The first postal service at Winfield was established in May, 1870. In 1873, Winfield incorporated as a city. Railroads reached Winfield in the late 1870s. and rather than at Arkansas City in 1881. Eventually, a total of 5 barns s passed through Winfield. In 1881, the State of Kansas established the Kansas State Asylum for Idiotic and Imbecile Youth, temporarily established at Lawrence, but moved to Winfield in 1887/1888, where it served as a dominant small-town employer for 117 years. The Winfield-Arkansas City region became an industrialized improve in the 20th Century, manufacturing consumer goods, and eventually airplane and airplane parts, while retaining its traditional dominant employer, the Winfield State Hospital. In World War II, Winfield, along with neighboring Arkansas City, became home to a military pilot training base, Strother Field, which remained in operation until the end of the war, bringing a several thousand military personnel into the area.
After the war, in the early 1950s, the field became the shared municipal airport and industrialized park for Winfield and neighboring Arkansas City. The airplane manufacturing trade in close-by Wichita (40 miles / 60 km to the north) one of the world's principal airplane -manufacturing centers provided employment for many Winfield residents, directly and indirectly.
That opportunity interval substantially in the last half of the century, as General Electric's GE Aviation division, in the late-1940s, began producing engines for Wichita airplane , and eventually in the 1960s, one of Wichita's principal manufacturers, Cessna Aircraft Company assembled a factory at Winfield's Strother Field.
The Winfield State Hospital and Training Center, established in the improve in the before century to home and confine the mentally ill and developmentally disabled, remained a as a dominant small-town employer throughout the 20th century. Towards the end of the century the (now designated "Winfield State Hospital and Training Center") homed developmentally disabled citizens .
In the 21st Century, Winfield remained an industrialized and institutional town.
Arkansas City is 13 miles (21 km) south of Winfield along U.S.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 12.93 square miles (33.49 km2), of which, 11.56 square miles (29.94 km2) is territory and 1.37 square miles (3.55 km2) is water. Over the course of a year, temperatures range from an average low below 20 F ( 7 C) in January to an average high of nearly 93 F (34 C) in July.
The maximum temperature reaches 90 F (32 C) an average of 69 days per year and reaches 100 F (38 C) an average of 12 days per year.
Median 0.5 1.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 2.6 Mean number of days 2.3 1.5 0.8 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 1.3 6.3 (1979) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 trace In the city, the populace was spread out with 24.9% under the age of 18, 11.8% from 18 to 24, 27.4% from 25 to 44, 19.4% from 45 to 64, and 16.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
In 1877, the Florence, El Dorado, and Walnut Valley Railroad Company assembled a branch line from Florence to El Dorado, the line was extended to Douglass then reached Winfield on October 1, 1879 and rather than at Arkansas City in 1881. The line was leased and directed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
The line from Florence to El Dorado was abandoned in 1942. The initial branch line connected Florence, Burns, De Graff, El Dorado, Augusta, Douglass, Rock, Akron, Winfield, Arkansas City.
The Southern Kansas and Western Railroad was instead of from the east to Winfield on February 17, 1880, then continued westward where it reached the county line on March 16. This barns shifts its name over time as it consolidated or purchased by other barns s.
In 1881, The Kansas Constitution stated that the care, treatment, and education of the handicapped were responsibilities of enhance residentiary establishments.
Accordingly, the Kansas State Asylum for Idiotic and Imbecile Youth was temporarily established at Lawrence, moving to Winfield in 1887. The "Kansas State Imbecile Asylum" (later the The Winfield State Hospital and Training Center) was established in the improve in 1888, on a hill overlooking the city.
Many are based at, and around, Strother Field a municipal airport that the two metros/cities share. In 1942, at the outbreak of World War II, Winfield, along with neighboring Arkansas City, began evolution of a shared municipal airport.
In 1953, the airport reverted to shared control of Winfield and Arkansas City, and became a primary industrial center for both communities, which it remains to the present. The airplane manufacturing trade in close-by Wichita (40 miles / 60 km to the north) -- one of the world's principal airplane -manufacturing centers provided employment for many Winfield residents, directly and indirectly.
That opportunity interval substantially in the last half of the century, as General Electric's GE Aviation division, in the late-1940s, began producing engines for Wichita airplane , and eventually in the 1960s, one of Wichita's principal manufacturers, Cessna Aircraft Company assembled a factory at Winfield's Strother Field.
In 1951, at Strother Field, GE Aviation an airplane -engine division of General Electric began producing General Electric J47 jet engines for U.S.
With the advent of company jets in the mid-1960s led by Wichita's Learjet (using General Electric CJ-610 engines, also used on other company airplane ) -- the Strother Field GE facility switched to servicing GE's company jet engines, ultimately refining over 6,000 by 1975, as the factory interval to 125,000 square feet.
During those years, a several hundred company jets, from around the world, flew into Strother Field to be serviced directly at the GE facility. In 1967, Cessna Aircraft Company, the world's highest-volume producer of airplane (mostly light airplane , at the time) addressed booming demand for their smallest, most-popular airplane , by opening a Cessna factory at Strother Field.
Initially, the factory produced the Cessna 150, at that time the world's most prominent two-seat light airplane (the world's dominant pilot-training airplane for a several decades). In 1975, Cessna also began to move the assembly of the world's most prominent light airplane , the Cessna 172, from its Wichita factory to Strother Field. Several thousand of both airplane models were produced at Strother Field (making it a globally primary airplane factory complex, in total unit production).
The factory working several hundred to a several thousand workers until the 1980s Recession and other factors crashed the market for light airplane , and Cessna, following layoffs of 700 workers at Strother Field, eventually shut down the Strother Field factory in the early 1980s. The Winfield State Hospital and Training Center, established in the improve in the before century to home and confine the mentally ill and developmentally disabled, remained a as a dominant small-town employer throughout the 20th century, housing and confining those with mental enigma from throughout the state of Kansas housing up to 1,492 "patients" at its maximum in 1952. Towards the end of the century the (now designated "Winfield State Hospital and Training Center") homed developmentally disabled citizens .
Changing civil and political attitudes, and SCOTUS decisions, and conservative political financial and business trends (developmentally disabled persons supported in the improve cost the state $25,000 annually, versus $130,000 for confinement in the Winfield facility), led to the gradual method of most of the facility over heated protests from residents' families and small-town improve leaders.
At that time, it was the earliest and biggest of the three Kansas state hospitals for developmentally disabled persons.
The facility was gradually taken over by the Kansas Department of Corrections, and repurposed as the Winfield Correctional Facility, period to contain up to 556 prisoners. With the exception of Cessna, most of the area's primary employers (some under new names and ownership) continued into the early 21st Century. The Strother Field municipal airport remains the site of the area's principal industrialized park, emloying thousands. In 2010, the Keystone-Cushing Pipeline (Phase II) was constructed west of Winfield, north to south through Cowley County, with much controversy over tax exemption and surroundingal concerns (if a leak ever occurs). In 2011-2012, Rubbermaid (now Newell Rubbermaid) announced it was moving 200 jobs from a Texas factory to Winfield, increasing its Winfield capacity to add manufacturing of Rubbermaid's trash cans and home-organization products.
GE Aviation, which began Winfield operations in 1947, continued, generally, until the present day, (according to a small-town government statement online in April 2017), now employing 750 citizens in the area. Creekstone Farms beef refining plant, in neighboring Arkansas City, Kansas, working over 600 in early 2017. Hospitals and nursing-care facilities in Winfield and Arkansas City, combined, working over 600 workers in early 2017 about half at William Newton Memorial Hospital in Winfield. Winfield is part of Winfield USD 465 school district. See also: Media in Wichita, Kansas; List of newspapers in Kansas; List of airways broadcasts in Kansas; and List of tv stations in Kansas The Arkansas City Traveler for close-by Arkansas City Main article: List of citizens from Cowley County, Kansas Greta Goodwin, member Kansas Senate and Kansas House of Representatives.
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