School District No. 4

On October 20, 1884, this survey report was filed at Huron, Dakota Territory.

The subdivisions were established by George W. Philips, Jr., in 1884. Charles Scott measured the east, south, west and north lines in 1882. There were no settlers when the area was surveyed. Total acreage is 23,000.08 acres.

Description: Level, nearly level, quantities of stone but no problem. Glenfield Township is bordered on the north by McHenry; east, Griggs County; south, Eastman; and west by Rolling Prairie.

Highway 200 (old No. 7) crosses from east to west and Highway 20 crosses from north to south. Burlington Northern (old Great Northern) cuts across the township.

The town of Glenfield is located on Section 21. At one time schools were on Sections 2, 8, and 29. There is a cemetery on Section 24.

Physiographic diagram of North Dakota: Copyright 1954, by Donald Poole. Glenfield Township is in the Drift Prairie which lies between the Sheyenne River and the James River.

Source:  Glenfield History 1886 €“ 1987 Page 2