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History · Greenfield

Greenfield’s post office opened in 1901, and 15% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1942 on and the census since 1940.

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How Greenfield began

When was Greenfield founded?

1901

The Greenfield post office opened in 1901, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 303 in 19402020 census: 114125 years
Founding year: the first Greenfield post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Greenfield’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Greenfield are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Greenfield’s history is told.

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The story

How Greenfield came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Greenfield.

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The 80 original acres of Greenfield began as the homestead in 1899 of one George Evans. Somewhere in the 1900-1902 timeframe, the Choctaw Northern Railroad built through the area, its line running from Geary, Oklahoma to its termination at Anthony, Kansas. The railroad bought the farm from then-owners T.G. Curtner and J.M. Gray, proceeding to plat the town and sell lots. By 1913, the town had about 300 inhabitants, a newspaper (The Greenfield Hustler), a bank, a lumberyard, two livery barns, two grain elevators, a grist mill, a hotel, an opera house, and various merchants and contractors.

Greenfield still has freight rail service through the AT&L Railroad.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Greenfield on the map, 1942 to 1979

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Greenfield. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Greenfield on the 1942 USGS mapGreenfield on the 1979 USGS map1942Geary sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Greenfield.

People over time

Greenfield, census by census

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Between 93 and 303 people in every census since 1940.

9 censuses, 1940–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Greenfield’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Greenfield

Nobody well known was born in Greenfield itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Sam WaltonAmerican businessman · b. 1918
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Thomas P. StaffordAmerican astronaut · b. 1930
Clarence NashAmerican voice actor · b. 1904
Sam RiversAmerican jazz musician and composer · b. 1923
Erik RhodesAmerican actor and singer · b. 1906
Stanley RotherAmerican priest, Martyr and Blessed · b. 1935

Questions about Greenfield’s history

What year was Greenfield founded?

The Greenfield post office opened in 1901, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.