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Richfield is a city in and the county seat of Sevier County, Utah, United States, and is the largest city in southern-central Utah.

Prehistoric people occupied the Richfield area for more than 7,000 years. Fremont culture remains are found close most community sites in the Sevier Place and are old-fashioned from nearly CE 1 to CE 1000. In the late summer of 1776, Father Escalante and his party of Spanish explorers passed through the general vicinity, looking for a trail to partner Nuevo Mexico and California. During the late 1820s, Jedediah Smith and additional fur traders crossed the area. Sevier County lies upon one of the variants on the Old Spanish Trail along with Santa Fe, New Mexico and California and was used by travelers in the middle of 1830 and 1850.

In the in advance part of January 1864, a party of ten men under the leadership of Albert Lewis came from Sanpete County, Utah and arrived in what is now Richfield. The Mormon settlers found fertile soil, good water and wood in the approachable hills. They decided that it was a desirable site for a settlement. These pioneers made a domicile place for anything ten men, which they called ‘The Hole in the Ground.’ They with intent covered this hole past brush willows and further materials and made a clumsy chimney of rocks. This dugout was located upon today’s Main Street. These men spent the remainder of the winter in this dwelling, planning and preparing for the time next they could bring their families.