Dearfield is an extinct town and a historically black majority settlement in Weld County, Colorado, United States.
The town was formed by Oliver Toussaint Jackson, who desired to create a colony for African American homesteaders.
[3] The first settlers of Dearfield had great difficulty farming the surrounding pasture and endured several harsh seasons.
After the prosperous years of the 1920s, the Great Depression arrived and the town's agricultural success significantly declined.
[6] In 1998, the Black American West Museum in Denver began to make attempts to preserve the town's site.