Explore Sheffield, Texas, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Sheffield, Texas. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Texas or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Sheffield.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Sheffield |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Cass County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 30.685889 |
| Longitude | -101.822416 |
| Population | 174 |
| Density | 75.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 75562, 79781 |
| Area Code | 972, 806 |
| County Seat | Linden |
| School District | Iraan-Sheffield Collegiate Independent School District |
Sheffield endures as a solitary outpost amidst a vast, sun-bleached expanse of Texas scrubland where the horizon stretches flat and uncompromising under an immense, pale sky. It lies 27.9 miles north-northeast of Marshall, TX (from Marshall, TX: bearing 14°T), and is situated 13.3 miles south-southwest of Atlanta. The earth here is a mosaic of limestone and parched grasses, relieved only by the intermittent, dry-weather path of Corey Branch, which carves a shallow, jagged scar through the terrain just a mile from the center. Beyond the immediate reach of the settlement, the land yields to a series of arid plains that shimmer in the midday heat, occasionally giving way to the distant, hazy silhouette of Gum Ridge far to the west. A quiet stillness defines the atmosphere, particularly at dusk, when the light turns a bruised, metallic gold and the wind carries the faint, sharp scent of sun-baked stone and wild sage.
Sheffield preserves the skeletal remnants of a harder era, reflecting a history tied tightly to the ebb and flow of regional ranching and the persistent demands of the inland climate. The economy remains tethered to the slow, deliberate work of the land, with inhabitants observing a pace of life governed by the seasonal requirements of livestock and the scarcity of water, which draws the curious to the modest basin of Hall Lake Number 2. While the Caddo Lake Wildlife Management Area sits twelve miles distant, the local character is shaped less by recreation and more by a rugged self-reliance that has persisted since the earliest tracks were cut into this dust. Life in Sheffield moves with the gravity of the seasons, unadorned and stark, where the primary landmarks are not monuments of stone but the persistent, enduring lines of fences that mark the boundaries of a life spent under the wide, watchful sun.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Sheffield, Texas. Coordinates: 30.685889, -101.822416. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Sheffield includes the ZIP code (75562, 79781), telephone area code (972, 806), county seat of Cass County (Linden), and school district assignment (Iraan-Sheffield Collegiate Independent School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |