Richfield is a city in and the county chair of Sevier County, Utah, United States, and is the largest city in southern-central Utah.

As of the 2010 census, the city population was 7,551. It lies in the Mormon Corridor, just off Interstate 70, approximately 40 miles (64 km) east of its junction like Interstate 15. The county can be best described as “rural diversified” due to the convergence of agricultural, retail and industrial activities. Richfield has developed as a regional tourist center because it is located upon the interstate freeway very nearly halfway amongst Los Angeles, California and Denver, Colorado, attracting many automobile travelers who End at the city.

Richfield is snooty from larger cities, about 100 miles (160 km) or more in any supervision from more populous towns such as Salt Lake City, while dozens of smaller communities are found in the general area. Some examples are Sigurd, Venice, Glenwood, and Central Valley. Its remoteness, plus its location on major transportation corridors, makes it central Utah’s de facto regional capital, a shopping and “commercial capital of a Big mountain-valley region.” Many people from the region aim to Richfield to shop, bowl, golf, to attend theater, concerts, or for religious gatherings. They are after that drawn to the community college, affiliated in the look of Snow College, and go there to get medical care. Richfield is ration of “Panoramaland;” it is upon the thoroughfare to several reachable national parks and national forests.

Prehistoric people occupied the Richfield Place for on peak of 7,000 years. Fremont culture remains are found near most community sites in the Sevier area. They are obsolete from nearly CE 1 to CE 1000. In the late summer of 1776, Father Escalante and his party of Spanish explorers passed through the general vicinity, looking for a trail to belong to Nuevo Mexico and California. During the late 1820s, Jedediah Smith and further fur traders crossed the area. Sevier County lay upon one of the variants upon the Old Spanish Trail in the middle of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and California and was used by travelers amongst 1830 and 1850.