Winthrop is included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area.

Winthrop is included in the Augusta, Maine Micropolitan New England City and Town Area.

Winthrop was part of the Kennebec Purchase awarded by the Plymouth Council for New England.

The surface of the town is uneven, but with good land that yielded hay, grain and apples.

Some of them are: Winthrop is an industrial and suburban center, located approximately 10 miles west of Maine's capital city, Augusta.

Pisgah (pronounced piss-gah, from the Hebrew word for summit or lookout), which is 807 ft above sea level and home to the Maine Fire Services watch tower that was in service from 1949 to 1992, when air patrols rendered it obsolete.

Its growth rate has slowed in recent years, and saw a decline in the 2010 census for the first time in almost a century.

Winthrop has always been the largest in population municipality in Kennebec County that was classified as a town and not a city.

The members serve two-year terms and conduct monthly meetings that are open to the public.

Winthrop is known as being politically moderate, and consistently votes for both liberals and conservatives for local, state, and national offices.

In the 2008 Presidential election, Barack Obama received 2,006 of the town's votes to John McCain's 1,569,[20] and in the 2004 Presidential election, John Kerry received 50% of the town's votes to George W. Bush's 47.4%, compared to 53% for Kerry and 45% for Bush statewide.

Besides Winthrop, the region includes the towns of Fayette, Readfield, and Mount Vernon to the north, Manchester to the east, Monmouth to the south, and Wayne to the west.

[26] The region is a popular recreation area in central Maine, with over three dozen Lakes and ponds offering a variety of boating, hiking, cycling, camping and fishing opportunities.

[32] Cobbossee also has the only active inland waters lighthouse in Maine, Ladies Delight Light.