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Whitfield, also known as Whitfield Estates, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Manatee County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 2,989. It is allocation of the North Port–Sarasota–Bradenton Metropolitan Statistical Area. It receives its mail from the Sarasota proclaim office located in Sarasota County.

Whitfield Estates was formerly a 682-acre (276 ha) wooded area that had been homesteaded by General John Riggin, aide-de-camp to Ulysses S. Grant. The property included the 218-acre (88 ha) bayfront home of Alfred Ringling. In 1924, the property was purchased from Richard T. Ringling, son of Alfred, by a corporation called Whitfield Estates, Inc., held by Louis Broughton Whitfield, D. G. Haley, E. H. Price, and E. S. Delaplane, Jr., all residents of Alabama.

Louis Whitfield, a indigenous of Montgomery, Alabama, and president and primary voyager of the development, was founder and president of the Alaga Syrup Company and the W. W. Pickle Company. Many streets in the subdivision were named for the Whitfield family, including Broughton and Pearl. The indigenous plan for Whitfield Estates called for a housing development, an 18-hole golf course, hotel, yacht basin and man-made islands in the bay. Donald Ross was retained as the golf course architect. Sometime during late 1925 or utterly early into 1926, L. B. Whitfield would depart the develop and his assimilation was taken exceeding by Adair realty. In 1926, the developing neighborhood was incorporated as a city in the same way as E.S. Bond acting as mayor.