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Greenfield, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rockbridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62044. The Survey maps it on the Greenfield quadrangle. 1,059 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 581 feet above sea level.

Greenfield within Greene County

Population over time

2 figures

Greenfield fell from 1,071 to 1,059 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,071
20201,059-12 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

In the county-history sources

4,242 words on this township

History of Greene County, Illinois : Its Past and Present, Containing a History of the County ; Its Cities, Towns, Etc. ; a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens ; War Record.., published 1879; Past and Present of Greene County, Illinois, published 1905 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Rockbridge Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Rockbridge Township - 4,242 words.

Storms near this place

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenfield in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2002HailGreenfield$300,000Hail up to golfball size hit the Greenfield area damaging automobiles and area roofs.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindGreenfield$30,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed an open sided barn on the east side of Illinois Route 267, that was about six tenths of a mile north northeast of the intersection of Illinois Routes 267 and 108. Also, a few large tree limbs were blown down.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindGreenfield-Thunderstorm winds snapped numerous large trees in the area.
April 2024Tornado (EFU)Greenfield-A tornado track was interpolated between spotter reports and storm chaser videos in Greene County, on Illinois Route 267 just south of intersection with NE 700 Street. The tornado tracked to the northeast, crossing into Macoupin County about three quarters of a mile south of Palmyra Road. The tornado may have lifted and touched down multiple times. During a storm survey no damage indicators were found, thus the tornado is rated EFU with an approximate path length of 3.68 miles in Greene County. Overall, the path length was 4.31 miles.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindGreenfield-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs onto Illinois Route 267.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindGreenfield-Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines as well as trees just east of Greenfield.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindGreenfield-A power line was reported down north of Greenfield.
April 2003HailGreenfield-The County Sheriff reported 1 inch hail.
October 2001HailGreenfield-Amateur radio spotters reported nickel size hail.
April 2008HailGreenfield-no account filed
April 2002HailGreenfield-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindGreenfield-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindGreenfield-no account filed
July 2001HailGreenfield-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindGreenfield-no account filed
April 2000Thunderstorm WindGreenfield-no account filed
May 1998HailGreenfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Kahm2.8 miles12
Fayette3.5 miles11
Wrights4.9 miles12
Rockbridge5.2 miles11
Daum5.6 miles12
Athensville7.8 miles11
Pegram9.8 miles12
Berdan9.8 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on GreenfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q577019The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 409429. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.