Scofield, Michigan

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Scofield is an unincorporated community in Monroe County, Michigan, inside Exeter Township. It has no official boundaries or population of its own. Located about 10 miles northwest of Monroe, Scofield sits along Scofield Road and Sumpter Road at roughly 630 feet above sea level. Waterways Helser Drain and Ross Drain run through the area, draining into Stony Creek, whose main branch lies about a mile to the north. The community is served by Monroe Public Schools at the northern edge of the district. Scofield has no post office and uses the Maybee 48159 ZIP Code (areas nearby may use Carleton 48117). Nearby communities include Maybee to the southwest, Carleton to the northeast, and Steiner to the southeast.

Scofield was settled around 1872 when the Chicago and Canada Southern Railway built through the area and a station existed there. The rail line is now operated by Canadian National Railway, but there is no longer a station in Scofield. A post office operated from January 20, 1874, to September 15, 1935. The McGowan School building, dating back to the 1860s with the current structure from about 1888, was a one-room school until the area joined Airport Community Schools in 1996. It was moved to Scofield in 2003 and now serves as a rental hall behind the township hall. The Exeter Township Hall was built in 1890 at 10296 Sumpter Road in Scofield and is a Michigan State Historic Site since 1998. The township hall itself is at 6158 Scofield Road. Scofield remains a small, unincorporated community with a few businesses. Road signs refer to it as the “village of Scofield,” though it has no legal village government.