Litchfield is a small village in Sherman County, Nebraska, platted in 1886 as the railroad reached the area, and likely named for Litchfield, Connecticut. Like many south-central Nebraska rail towns of its era, it grew around grain shipping and remains a quiet residential community today.

Litchfield is a modest, steadily shrinking railroad-era village of about 220 residents, retaining its small-town character within Sherman County's farming landscape.