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Fairfield is an incorporated town in Teton County, Montana, on the irrigated Greenfield Bench east of the Rocky Mountain Front; Choteau, not Fairfield, is the county seat.

Fairfield is the self-proclaimed 'Malting Barley Capital of the World,' named for the large crops of malt barley grown around it each year.

The town began as a station on the Milwaukee Road; the railroad reached the area in 1916 and the townsite was platted by Elmer Genger.

Fairfield's first postmaster, John Zimmerman, is credited with offering two names for the new post office in 1908, Harmony and Fairfield.

The surrounding bench was originally known as Freeze-out Bench; with irrigation it became the productive Greenfield Bench.

Irrigation projects in the area began after the passage of the Newlands Reclamation Act in 1902, and a 1903 Bureau of Reclamation survey promoted the Sun River Valley as 'the greatest farming country under the dome of Heaven.'

Gibson Dam and its reservoir on the Sun River were completed in 1929, and today the Greenfield Irrigation District delivers water from the dam to approximately 83,000 acres surrounding the community.

Completion of the Greenfields Irrigation District in 1936, diverting Sun River water into the Pishkun and Willow Creek reservoirs, made increased barley production possible.

The population of Fairfield was 759 at the 2020 census, up from 708 at the 2010 census.

At the 2010 census, Fairfield had 305 households and 204 families.