Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listings are the Man Mound and the Simonds 10-Sided Barn. Below: maps from 1895 on and old-book passages.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Greenfield’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Greenfield. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Greenfield.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Greenfield yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
The Town of Greenfield is a located in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 909 at the 2020 census. The town was named after Greenfield, Massachusetts.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 932 to 909 (-2%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Greenfield, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The town of Greenfield originally belonged to the town of Brooklyn, and was set off as a separate town about 1853. Lemuel Thompson is believed to have been the first Chairman of the Board of Supervisors in the town.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Greenfield itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Two places: the Man Mound (listed 1978) and the Simonds 10-Sided Barn (2020).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 Wikimedia Commons (5), the National Register of Historic Places (2), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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