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Welcome to the Fairfield Home page. The Fairfield Home page provides as much information as possible on Fairfield. Knowing Fairfield’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Fairfield’s Home page, you will also find Fairfield’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Fairfield has a population of 690. 46.5% of Fairfield’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.5 are female. 58.6% of Fairfield is married and 68.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $150,638, and the average rent is $657. Household median income in Fairfield is $63,365, and the individual median income is $32,614. Fairfield’s Ethnic is the following: White(94.2%), Multiple(2.8%), Black(2%), Asian(1%).


Fairfield is a town in Teton County, Montana, United States. The population was 759 at the 2020 census. Fairfield is the self-proclaimed "Malting Barley Capital of the World" with 83,000 acres (336 km2) of irrigated cropland and 56,000 acres (227 km2) of non-irrigated cropland in production for the purpose of raising malt barley in the vicinity.Fairfield began as a station on the Milwaukee and is between Great Falls and Choteau and near Freezeout Lake, (from Cheney's Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company) where as many as 300,000 snow geese and 10,000 tundra swans gather in March.


Fairfield serves as a trading center for the farmers of Greenfield Bench. Irrigation now assures crops, but in earlier days a dry summer made the grass scarce and the name "Freeze-out Bench" was applied to the area. "Greenfield Bench" and Fairfield are now descriptive of the hay and grain fields surrounding the town. Even though the federal government had opened this area of Montana to homesteading in 1862, not until 1909 did settlers really come into the Fairfield area when Congress liberalized this act allowing the settler 320 acres of free land instead of 160.


It became apparent, however, that the small homesteads, 160 or 320 acres, made little sense in the vast and dry landscape of Montana. After the Bureau of Reclamation conducted a survey that showed a dam could be built in the Sun River Canyon and water for irrigation in Fairfield area would be feasible were many more settlers attracted to Fairfield.


The Gibson Dam was completed in 1929. Today, Greenfield Irrigation District delivers water from Gibson Dam to approximately 83,000 acres surrounding this community. Fairfield is nicknamed the "Malting Barley Capital of the World", a trade center for the farming community as well as being home to Busch Agricultural Resources, 3 Rivers Telephone Cooperative and Sun River Electric Cooperative.


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