Do you know of Sheffield ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Sheffield. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Sheffield.
Our sources for Sheffield (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Sheffield other than they indicate that Sheffield would be found somewhere in Lake County, Indiana.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1874 and closed in 1888.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Sheffield ...
We found 27 communities that share the name Sheffield.
Within Indiana, the name Sheffield is unique.
Beyond Indiana, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 25 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Colbert County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Sheffield [Colbert County].
- Florida
- Georgia
- Camden County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Sheffield [Camden County].
- Early County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Sheffield [Early County].
- Newton County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Sheffield [Newton County].
- Rockdale County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Sheffield [Rockdale County].
- Illinois
- Bureau County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Sheffield [Bureau County].
- Iowa
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Sheffield [Franklin County].
- Kansas
- Decatur County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Sheffield [Decatur County].
- Massachusetts
- Berkshire County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Sheffield [Berkshire County].
- Michigan
- Kent County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Sheffield [Kent County].
- Missouri
- Cape Girardeau County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Sheffield [Cape Girardeau County].
- Jackson County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Sheffield [Jackson County].
- Montana
- Custer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Sheffield [Custer County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Sheffield.
- North Carolina
- Davie County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Sheffield [Davie County].
- Ohio
- Lorain County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Sheffield [Lorain County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Sheffield.
- Pennsylvania
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Sheffield [Warren County].
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Beadle County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Sheffield [Beadle County].
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Vermont
- Caledonia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Sheffield [Caledonia County].
- Virginia
- Lynchburg City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Sheffield [Lynchburg City].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sheffield ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Sheffield:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Sheffield - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
More Orphans in Lake County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Lake County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Sheffield could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |