Richfield is a village in Washington County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 11,739 at the 2020 census. The in the past unincorporated communities of Hubertus and Pleasant Hill are located in the village, as without difficulty as the communities of Colgate and Lake Five, which are partially located in Richfield.

The Richfield Place was originally inhabited by Native Americans, including the Menominee and Potawatomi peoples. In 1831, The Menominee surrendered their claims to the house to the United States Federal Government through the Treaty of Washington, and the Potawatomi surrendered claims in 1833 through the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, which (after visceral ratified in 1835) required them to leave the area by 1838. While many Native people moved west of the Mississippi River to Kansas, some chose to remain, and were referred to as “strolling Potawatomi” in contemporary documents because many of them were migrants who subsisted by squatting on their ancestral lands, which were now owned by white settlers. Eventually, the Potawatomi who evaded forced removal gathered in northern Wisconsin, where they formed the Forest County Potawatomi Community.

On May 31, 1841, a land speculator named Samuel Spivey purchased 600 acres of house in the Richfield, becoming the first white landowner in the Richfield area and marking the arrival of before settlement. Several weeks later, on July 9, 1841, Jacob Snyder purchased house in the Place and approved in Richfield, becoming the first white permanent resident. By 1843, German immigrants − particularly from Hesse-Darmstadt − were building farms in the area, and the community began to form. A charity of German Catholics built the community’s first church in 1845 and dedicated it to Saint Hubertus. Today, the community that formed in the region of the church in addition to bears the saint’s name.

The Town of Richfield was organized on January 21, 1846, and by 1848 almost everything of the town’s home was owned by Irish and German immigrant farmers. Wheat farming dominated the local economy until 1880, when dairy crop growing became more popular in Richfield and the give access at large.