Based on stone tools found, hunter gatherers of the Mesolithic (10,000-5,300 BC) frequented the heathlands that formed in Northern Limburg after the Weichselian glaciation.

If so, the name Meterik may have roots in the Celtic language, for example "mi ater ruc", meaning "my father's rick of hay".

The region was part of the Roman Empire (50 BC - 456 AD), located in the Civitas Tungrorum, with the influx of the Tungri and later Salian Franks Germanic tribes.

A Carolingian settlement was found in the Meterik's Field with the floor plans of 23 large and 21 small buildings and four wells dated to 625-1000 AD.

Sod heather and dung was used to fertilize the land, raising the elevation of Meterik's Field by about 1.7 meters over time.

In the Middle Ages, Meterik had its own defensive structure, called a "schans", about 0.5 hectares large and consisting of an earthen wall and a flooded ditch with a draw bridge.

The invention of artificial fertilizer subsequently led to the agricultural development of the remaining heathlands south of the field.

Meterik became a nucleated village at the end of the 19th century, when local farmers obtained permission to establish a church under the condition that they themselves provided income for the priest.

The Church of Meterik, the Saint John the Evangelist, was built in 1899 designed by the architect Caspar Roermond Franssen.