The Town of Richfield is located in Wood County, Wisconsin, United States.

The Yellow River cuts across the town, heading to join the Wisconsin at Castle Rock Lake.

[4] Before white contact, the area that would become Richfield lay near the border of Ojibwe, Ho-Chunk and Menominee territory.

[5] The six by six mile square that would become Richfield was first surveyed in the summer of 1851 by a crew working for the U.S. government.

In October 1851 a different crew of surveyors marked all the section corners in the township, walking through the woods and swamps, measuring with chain and compass.

Part way through the town, a predecessor of Puff Creek Boulevard branched off heading south to some mills downstream on the Yellow River, including Pitt's Mill - the forerunner of Pittsville.

A post office was marked at Bethel on the plat map, along with Woodland Academy.

[11] The 1909 plat map showed some details of the buildings at Bethel Academy, and noted a blacksmith shop a mile to the east.

The road that would become County N didn't cross the Yellow River, and the future T still had a gap north of Bethel.