Chatfield is an unincorporated community in northeastern Navarro County, Texas, United States, eleven miles northeast of Corsicana.

The town was built up by a Captain Robert Hodge who moved from Kentucky to Texas.

Captain Hodge purchased 1280 acres of land and moved his family to Chatfield in 1853.

He was a successful plantation owner who built an antebellum home named "Hodge Oaks" in 1860.

[5] At one time, Chatfield had a furniture manufacturing facility, a boarding school along with a number of cotton gins, a post office and stores.