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South Greenfield, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65752. It stands on Buffalo Branch. The Survey maps it on the Greenfield quadrangle. 122 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 965 feet above sea level.

South Greenfield within Dade County

On record in South Greenfield

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

South Greenfield grew from 90 to 122 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
201090
2020122+32 (+36%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of South Greenfield between 1994 and 2020, burning about 51 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning8
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230765-921-09092020-1927
9 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230764-921-09092020-1730
27 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178160-921-08272018-1420
4 July 2018Fireworks1.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178157-921-07042018-2215
10 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230763-921-06122020-1830
1 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177107-921-06012018-1643
5 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220601-921-05052020-2215

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dade County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of South Greenfield: 3 producers, 3 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Allen PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Allen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Logan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rose Lockwood UarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sons Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dade County

Storms near this place

14 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Greenfield in 14 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 2 hail, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
May 2022Flash FloodSouth Greenfield1 killed, $10,000A vehicle with two occupants was swept off a low water crossing on County Road 143 at Limestone Creek. One occupant was able to make it to safety but the second, a 65 year old male, drowned.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSouth Greenfield$5,000A tree was blown on to powerlines just south of Greenfield.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSouth Greenfield$5,000Powerlines were blown down on a house just southeast of Greenfield.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindSouth Greenfield$5,000Several trees and power lines were reported down in the area.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSouth Greenfield$1,000A powerline was down due to thunderstorm winds south of Greenfield.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSouth Greenfield-Several large tree limbs were reported down on the road.
May 2022Flash FloodSouth Greenfield-A water rescue was performed at a low water crossing near County Roads 132 and 143.
March 2021HailSouth Greenfield-Several reports of quarter sized hail were received via social media.
May 2019Heavy RainSouth Greenfield-A 24 hour rainfall accumulation of 4.60 inches was reported by the public.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSouth Greenfield-A home weather station measured a wind gust of 83 mph.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindSouth Greenfield-A few trees were reported down near the intersection of Highways 160 and 39.
September 2009Heavy RainSouth Greenfield-There was 2.00 inches of rain measured.
April 2011HailSouth Greenfield-no account filed
July 2008Funnel CloudSouth Greenfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dade 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
Fiddlers Ford2.3 miles17
Greenfield2.7 miles17
Pennsboro3.4 miles15
Snadon Ford3.7 miles15
Pilgrim3.7 miles15
Dilday Mill4.7 miles15
Turnback (historical)5.5 miles15
Lockwood6.0 miles15

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 South GreenfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2659960The 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 729966. 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.