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Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Richfield (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Richfield. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Richfield is located in Sevier County and is the County Seat.

To see how the shape of Utah's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sevier County: Beaver, Emery, Millard, Piute, Sanpete & Wayne.

Below are the counties that are near Richfield. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Richfield:

  • Sevier County     (The home county of Richfield)
  • Beaver County
  • Millard County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Richfield, with the one closest to Richfield listed first.
    • Kanosh Indian Village
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kanosh Indian Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanosh Indian Village
      • Kanosh Indian Village is located in Millard County
    • Fillmore
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Meadow
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Kanosh
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Hatton ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Hatton. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hatton
      • Hatton is located in Millard County
      • Former names for Hatton:
      • Corn Creek
      • Lower Corn Creek
      • Petersburg
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Hatton
      • From Richfield to Hatton
    • Holden
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Cove Fort ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Piute County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Richfield, with the one closest to Richfield listed first.
    • Hoovers
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Pittsburg ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Marysvale
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Marysvale have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marysvale
      • Marysvale is located in Piute County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 448 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Marysvale <1>
    • Greenwich
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Thompsonville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Kimberly ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Kimberly. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimberly
      • Kimberly is located in Piute County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Kimberly
      • From Richfield to Kimberly
    • Lower Kimberly ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Alunite ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Sanpete County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Richfield, with the one closest to Richfield listed first.
    • Axtell
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Clarion ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Clarion. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarion
      • Clarion is located in Sanpete County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Clarion
      • From Richfield to Clarion
    • Centerfield
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Fort Gunnison ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Gunnison
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Richfield, see our County-by-County Page for Richfield.

Cemeteries Near Richfield ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Richfield.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Richfield covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Richfield, with the one closest to Richfield listed first.

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<6>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Richfield had a population of 1,531 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Richfield had a population of 7,911 people.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Richfield, with the one closest to Richfield listed first.

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Richfield. See our List of 1890's Communities around Richfield.

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Richfield ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 15 newspapers that have been published in the area around Richfield.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Richfield. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Richfield and those printed in the larger area surrounding Richfield.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<5> of Richfield.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Richfield:

The official website for Richfield: www.richfieldcity.com/

The official website for Sevier County: www.sevierutah.net/

The official website for State of Utah: https://www.utah.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Richfield) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Richfield. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.7723, Longitude: -112.0849    
<6>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Richfield, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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This page was last modified/updated: 29 Apr 2025