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 | Pecos 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 | Fort Stockton |
| School District | Iraan-Sheffield Collegiate Independent School District |
Sheffield emerges from the arid expanse of the high plains as a collection of weathered structures clinging to the stark, sun-bleached earth. It lies 86.1 miles south-southeast of Odessa, TX (from Odessa, TX: bearing 158°T), and is situated 40.7 miles south-southwest of Big Lake. The horizon here is vast and indifferent, dominated by the raw, geologic silence of the land where the Pecos River carves a narrow, serpentine path through the limestone just a mile away. To the north, the rugged depression of Musk Hog Canyon cuts into the terrain, its shadows deepening as the relentless Texas light wanes into a bruised violet. The air carries a dry, mineral sharpness, and the silence is punctuated only by the low hum of wind against scrub brush, a landscape that demands a quiet, enduring resilience from anything that dares to exist within its reach.
Sheffield maintains a quiet connection to the past, defined by the persistence of those who worked the ranching lands and the rugged trails of the frontier. History clings to the nearby Fort Lancaster State Historic Site Trail, where the echoes of nineteenth-century patrols still seem to linger in the heat-shimmered distance. While the Edwards Plateau remains a distant silhouette over a hundred miles to the east, its limestone legacy is felt in the rocky soil that dictates the pace of life here. The local economy remains tethered to the slow cycles of agriculture and the maintenance of the vast, open spaces that stretch toward the horizon. Further afield, the ecological sanctuary of Independence Creek Preserve protects the delicate desert life that persists in the deep creases of this dry, unforgiving country.
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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 Pecos County (Fort Stockton), 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. |