Richford is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

comprising the main settlement in the town of Richford, Franklin County,

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, United States. Its population was 1,361 as of the 2010 census, out of 2,308 people in the entire town of Richford. The Richford CDP is located in the northwest part of the town of Richford, along the

Missisquoi River The Missisquoi River is a transboundary river of the east shore of Lake Champlain (via Missisquoi Bay), approximately long, in northern Vermont in the United States and southern Quebec in Canada. It drains a rural area of the northern Green Moun ...

Vermont Route 105 Vermont Route 105 (VT 105) is a state highway located in northern Vermont in the United States. The route runs from U.S. Route 7 in Vermont, U.S. Route 7 (US 7) in St. Albans (city), Vermont, St. Albans in the west to the New Ham ...

passes through the community, staying on the south side of the river; it leads east over the

Green Mountains The Green Mountains are a mountain range in the U.S. state of Vermont and are a subrange of the Appalachian Mountains. The range runs primarily south to north and extends approximately from the border with Massachusetts to the border with Que ...

to North Troy and southwest down the Missisquoi River valley to Enosburg Falls.

Vermont Route 139 Vermont Route 139 (VT 139) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Vermont. The highway, which lies within Richford in northern Franklin County, has a length of from VT 105 north to the Canada–United States border. VT 139 provide ...

(Main Street) intersects VT 105 in the south part of town, crosses the Missisquoi, becomes Province Street, and leads north to the

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Quebec Route 139 Route 139 is a north/south highway on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River. Its northern terminus is in Saint-Nicéphore, now part of Drummondville, at the junction of Route 143, and the southern terminus is in Abercorn at the border with ...

continues north from the border to

Sutton, Quebec Sutton is a town in southeastern Quebec. It is part of the Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality in the administrative region of the Estrie. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 4,548. Known for its scenic landscapes and outdoo ...

. According to the

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, the Richford CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 2.05%, is water.

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Census-designated places in Vermont Census-designated places in Franklin County, Vermont {{Vermont-geo-stub