Garfield, one of the principal towns of Pawnee county, is situated on the Arkansas river and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. 11 miles southwest of Larned, the county seat. It is a shipping point of considerable importance, has a bank, a money order postoffice with one rural route, telegraph, express and telephone accommodations, a flour mill, 4 grain elevators, a hotel, a public library, graded and high schools, Congregational, Methodist and Swedish Lutheran churches, and a number of well stocked mercantile establishments. It was incorporated in 1910 and the same year reported a population of 333.