Thursday, January 18, 2018

Greenfield, Oklahoma

Here is a link to a satellite photo of the Greenfield area:

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.7288161,-98.4718936,19679m/data=!3m1!1e3

Those white dots are oil fields.

Greenfield is the only town in the picture. At the 2010 census, the town’s population was 93. The highest population was 303 in 1940. The racial makeup of Greenfield in 2000 was 88.6% white; 9.7% Native American; and 1.6% African American. Twenty percent of families and 17.6% of the overall population lived below the poverty line.

Greenfield was established April 19, 1892, “when the Cheyenne-Arapaho Reservation was opened for non-Indian occupation.”

http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=GR023

That same entry says Greenfield serves “as a ‘bedroom’ community.”

Last January, the “partially burned body” of a 30-year-old mother of four, was found in an open field west of Greenfield. The woman’s father found the body during a search by family members worried about her safety. The woman’s 35-year-old boyfriend was later questioned at a hospital emergency room. Police said the boyfriend had been in an altercation with several of the dead woman’s family members after the body was found. Police said the man’s hands had been burned. After an investigation lasting several days, the boyfriend was charged with murdering the woman. The boyfriend told police he was angry because the woman had gone out with another man.

The whole story here: https://www.thewatongarepublican.com/articles/2017/01/09/local-woman-found-dead-greenfield-boyfriend-charged-first-degree-murder


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