Greenfield, Minnesota
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Greenfield City. It lies in ZIP code area 55357. The Survey maps it on the Rockford quadrangle. 2,903 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,001 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresGreenfield grew from 215 to 2,903 between 1860 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1860 | 215 | |
| 2010 | 2,777 | |
| 2020 | 2,903 | +126 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1909 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
9 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Greenfield between 2000 and 2015, burning about 157 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 May 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 May 2000 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 March 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 March 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 March 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 87 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | LAKE SARAH |
| 26 March 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.2 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 October 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Greenfield: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bursch Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Giese Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenfield in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 2 hail, 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Greenfield | $1,000 | A weak tornado moved across a farmstead, knocking down large branches, flattening a corn field, and blowing out a door of a hoop barn. The tornado was caught on video by a storm chaser. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenfield | - | About one dozen trees and large branches were knocked down, all blown from east to west. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Greenfield | - | A house was damaged and an attached garage was destroyed along 76th Lane. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Greenfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Greenfield | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Sarah | 2.2 miles | 15 | |
| Burschville | 3.3 miles | 15 | |
| Loretto | 4.5 miles | 15 | |
| Leighton | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Dupont | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Independence | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Armstrong | 6.3 miles | 15 | |
| Maple Plain | 6.9 miles | 15 |
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 Greenfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1924328 | The 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 1669530. 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.









