Winigan is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in southeastern Sullivan County, Missouri, United States. It is located upon Missouri Route 129, approximately 15 mi (24 km) southeast of Milan. The Sullivan – Linn county line is one-half mile south of the community.

The land on which Winigan sits was obtained from the U.S. government in February 1857 by Noah Harl and exchanged hands five become old before coming into the possession of James M. Thrasher.
The town of Winigan was laid out in to come February 1880, encompassing an Place of six blocks upon land belonging to Thrasher. A declare office had been acknowledged in 1874 once Mr. Van Klelsie as the first postmaster. According to local folklore, the town was named in rave review of a Mr. Winnegan, an forward settler to southern Sullivan County who had been killed by a panther in the 1840s. The first collection was opened in 1878 and by 1888 Winigan had a population of twenty-five families. It was then, and remained for many years, dependent upon supplying the needs of farms located in southeastern Sullivan County. To that end, Winigan at one get older had two teetotal goods stores, two blacksmith shops, a drug stock and captivation steam saw/grist mill.

A large turkey farm and hatchery was owned and run by the Borron family close Winigan in the mid and late 1900s. For many years Winigan had one of the longest government community street fairs in north Missouri. It was held upon the first weekend in August for higher than six decades. The emphasize was the Winnigan Centennial in 1973, which drew a crowd of over 5,000. The Winigan Strawberry Festival is held each June and the Winigan 4-H Fair has been held each year since 1938.

Winigan has twice been the scene of a bank robbery. The first happened upon December 19, 1945, as three armed men stole more than $6,000 at gunpoint from the Citizen’s Bank of Winigan. Quick thinking by town merchant Ivan Cable helped foil the robbery however. Cable let the air out of one of the tires on the getaway vehicle. The robbers first attempted to objective away but soon single-handedly the car and escaped on foot. Later the thesame night they were apprehended at a to hand farm house. Two were arrested, while the third took his own liveliness by gunshot. The second bank robbery took place on July 2, 2009, as two men held going on the Winigan branch of the Bank of Brookfield-Purdin, escaping next an undisclosed amount of cash. The pair were forward-looking caught and tried for a series of similar bank thefts.