Greenwood is a city in Johnson County, Indiana, United States. The population was 63,830 at the 2020 Census. Greenwood is located amongst Indiana State Road 37 and Interstate 65. The city shares a affix with Indianapolis and is the most populous suburban municipality in the southern part of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Area.

The first inhabitants of the Place currently known as Greenwood were the Delaware Indians (Lenape). In 1818, the Treaty of St. Mary’s opened central Indiana to European American settlement, and by 1823 the first cabin in northern Johnson County was erected by settlers John B. and Isaac Smock on land now occupied by Greenwood Park Mall. Greenwood was first known as “Smocktown” or “Smock’s Settlement” in praise of the Smock brothers, and became “Greenfield” in 1825. Since this clashed like another Greenfield located in Hancock County, the name of the pact was changed to “Greenwood” in 1833.

Greenwood was incorporated as a town under Indiana take steps in 1864.

Greenwood was an in the future and key cog in the Electric Indianapolis Interurban Railway System. In 1895, Henry L. Smith proposed and organized the Indianapolis, Greenwood & Franklin Company and graded the parentage to Greenwood. The Indianapolis, Greenwood & Franklin Railway was opened amongst Indianapolis and Greenwood upon January 1, 1900, and, according to Indianapolis historian Jacob Piatt Dunn, was the Hoosier capital’s first genuine interurban electric railway. The railway followed what is now Madison Avenue.