Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Richfield was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1964. Below: maps from 1904 on and old-book passages.
Richfield dates its founding to 1910 (Wikipedia’s history). Its post office opened in 1912.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Richfield’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Richfield. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Richfield.
From Wikipedia’s history of Richfield.
Richfield was founded ca. 1910. A post office was established at Richfield in 1912, and remained in operation until 1964. The community was named for the fertility of their soil.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Richfield, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The First Methodist Episcopal Church of Richfield Springs. — In the spring of 1871, Rev. Olin C. Wightman was appointed to Warren charge, and fixed his residence in Richfield Springs. He began a series of meetings in Union Hall, May 21, 1871. Eight days later the society was incorporated. The church building was dedicated January 6, 1874. The list of ministers to this charge
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Nobody well known was born in Richfield itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Richfield had its own post office from 1912 to 1964.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
In 1910, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Richfield’s post office opened in 1912.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
