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Welcome to Garfield ...

Garfield is located in Portage County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Garfield, you might consider that their post office opened in 1884.

Garfield is 1,140 feet [347 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Garfield lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Garfield: 715 & 534<3>

Communities Also Named Garfield ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 48 communities that are also named Garfield - they are located in Arkansas, California (2), Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho (2), Illinois, Indiana (2), Iowa, Kansas (3), Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan (2), Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio (2), Ontario (2), Oregon, Pennsylvania (3), Prince Edward Island, Tennessee, Texas (3), Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Garfield.

Communities near Garfield ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Garfield.

  • Stevens Point
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Plover
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Plover is located in Portage County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plover
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,252 people
  • Waupaca
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Waupaca is located in Waupaca County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waupaca
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,857 people
  • Whiting
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Whiting is located in Portage County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whiting
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,704 people
  • Manawa
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Manawa is located in Waupaca County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manawa
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,269 people
  • Iola
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Iola is located in Waupaca County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iola
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,190 people
  • Amherst
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Wittenberg
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Tigerton
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Park Ridge
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Park Ridge is located in Portage County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Ridge
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 496 people

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Garfield. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Garfield.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Garfield. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Garfield.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Garfield. See our Newspapers Page for Garfield.

Adding Garfield to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Garfield in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Garfield was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Garfield post office opened in 1884. The Garfield post office closed in 1907.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Garfield.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Portage, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Garfield - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 715 code has been Overlayed with the 534 area code. New phone numbers in the Garfield area will be assigned with one of these codes: 715 or 534. As a result, placing a call in the Garfield area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/