Kingfield is a town in Franklin County, Maine, United States.
Kingfield is the principal gateway to Sugarloaf, a major ski resort, and is headquarters to Maine Huts and Trails.
The first recorded European visitors were John W. Dutton and Nathaniel Kimball in 1805.
In 1807, William King (later to be Maine's first Governor) purchased the township as part of the Bigham Plantation.
In 1816 Kingfield was incorporated as the 210th town in the Maine District of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Their sister, Chansonetta, became a photographer renowned for her portraits of local rural life.
In the early 1950s, local residents began developing Sugarloaf Mountain as a ski resort.
In 2007 Nestlé opened a Poland Spring bottling plant in Kingfield.
This climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters.
30.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
24.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.