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History · Richfield

11% of Richfield’s homes were built before 1940

Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1968 on, and the census since 1870.

0on the National Register
11%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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From Richfield’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Richfield’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 424 in 1910; 138 people lived here in 2020.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Richfield’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo1 archive item has no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewLehmann House: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
People over time

Richfield, census by census

010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 424

Peaked at 424 in 1910; 138 people lived here in 2020.

16 censuses, 1870–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Richfield’s Wikipedia page.

The story so far

Richfield, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Richfield yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Richfield is a town in Adams County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 138 at the 2020 census, down from 158 at the 2010 census. The ghost town of Pilot Knob was located in the town.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 158 to 138 (-13%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Richfield, 1856 to 1968

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1856Post officeThe Pilot Knob post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1904Post officeThe Pilot Knob post office closes
  5. 1910CensusPopulation peaks at 424
  6. 1968On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Richfield, decade by decade

Date unknown1 to date
Lehmann HouseDate?Lehmann House
On the map

Richfield on the map, 1968 to 1985

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Richfield. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Richfield on the 1968 USGS mapRichfield on the 1985 USGS map1968Coloma SW sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Richfield.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Lehmann House
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Another post office, Pilot Knob, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Pilot Knob
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Richfield
FishSouth Burr Oak

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

PrestonIts storyC−LincolnIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townColburnIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townColomaIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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Sources

Where this page comes from

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 the Library of Congress (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.