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Whitefield is a town in Coös County, New Hampshire, United States, in the White Mountains Region. The population was 2,490 at the 2020 census. Situated on the northern edge of the White Mountains, Whitefield is home to the Mount Washington Regional Airport and the White Mountains Regional High School.

Whitefield is part of the Berlin, NH–VT Micropolitan Statistical Area. The central village in the town, where 1,460 people resided at the 2020 census, is defined as the Whitefield census-designated place (CDP) and is located at the junction of U.S. Route 3, New Hampshire Route 116 and NH Route 142.

The last town to be granted under the English provincial government, Whitefield was chartered on July 4, 1774, exactly two years previously adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Some understand it was named for George Whitefield, a well-known English evangelist and a buddy of William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, the patron of Dartmouth College. Others say yes the reveal originated from earlier references to the snowy white fields one would see upon approach through any of the surrounding mountain passages. The chartered post was “Whitefields”, but the “s” was dropped upon December 1, 1804, the date of incorporation. Early grantees included Jeremy Belknap, historian, and John Langdon, who succeeded John Wentworth as governor.