Westfield, IA

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Westfield, as it's name implies is the western-most town in Iowa. It is located on the northern edge of the "Loess Hills" and is the northern boundary of the mulberry tree.

The old village of Westfield was platted by the Western Land Company in the year of 1856, it was mostly abandoned during the Indian scare and was replatted in it's present location in August 1877. It is not known exactly where the old Westfield village was located but research has located lots sold by the Western Land Company on the now Paul Bringman farm, north of present Westfield, and this is where the first Westfield was believed to be.

Westfield competed with a couple of other towns, namely Melburne, for the location of the county seat, but was to far from the river and railroads and lost out to LeMars.

Westfield had a bank (which was robbed), blacksmith, post office, grocery store, barber, hardware store, hotel, elevators, churches and a lumber yard, but lost out to other towns due to it's location and proximity to Sioux City and Akron as ease in transportation increased.