Welcome to Sheffield ...

Sheffield is located in Cape Girardeau County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Sheffield, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1856.

Time Zone: Sheffield lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Sheffield is located in the (573) area code.

Communities Also Named Sheffield ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Missouri communities named Sheffield: This one is located in Cape Girardeau County and the other is located in Jackson County.

Beyond Missouri, there are 27 communities that are also named Sheffield - they are located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia (4), Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, New Brunswick, North Carolina, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, South Carolina (2), South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas (2), Vermont and Virginia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Sheffield.

Adding Sheffield to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Sheffield in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Sheffield was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Sheffield post office opened in 1856.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Sheffield.

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Sheffield. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Missouri: https://www.mo.gov/