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Sheffield is a census-designated place in eastern Pecos County, Texas, at the intersection of State Highway 290 and State Highway 349, about 18 miles south of Iraan and 40 miles west of Ozona.

Sheffield is named for pioneer rancher Will Sheffield, who became the first postmaster when the post office was established in 1898; the community still uses ZIP code 79781.

The first settler in the Sheffield area was John Cannon, who arrived in 1888 and bought land along the Pecos River, and a small settlement sprang up around 1900 on land adjoining the Cannon ranch that belonged to Will Sheffield.

In the 1920s Sheffield became a small stop on the Old Spanish Trail, the transcontinental highway route that later became part of U.S. Highway 290.

The Sheffield area's recorded history reaches back to 1590, when Spanish explorer Gaspar Castano de Sosa traveled up the Pecos River, and the 1849 Army survey of the San Antonio-to-El Paso road passed through because of Pecos Spring and the nearby Lancaster Crossing by Fort Lancaster.

Sheffield first appeared as a census-designated place in the 2020 census, which counted 174 residents.

About a third of Sheffield's 2020 population - 58 of 174 residents - was Hispanic or Latino.

Sheffield sits in Pecos County, the second-largest county by land area in Texas, covering some 4,765 square miles of Trans-Pecos ranch country.