Buckfield is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States.

Buckfield is included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England City and Town Area.

It is a member of Regional School Unit 10 along with nearby Hartford and Sumner.

Abijah Buck and Thomas Allen settled in the area in spring of 1777 with their families.

In 1785, the inhabitants procured a survey of the town and purchased it from Massachusetts for 2 shillings per acre.

5), in 1793 the Massachusetts General Court incorporated it as Buckfield, named for Abijah Buck.

[4] The surface of the town is uneven, but has deep, dark soil that yielded good crops of grain, corn and apples.

The east and west branches of the Nezinscot River join at Buckfield Village, supplying water power for mills.

Products included lumber, roof shingles, barrel staves, box boards, shovel handles, snow-shovels, handsleds, drag-rakes, brushes, brush blocks, powder-kegs, leather harness, cutting-blocks and men's boots.