Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Sheffield, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sheffield Village. It lies in ZIP code area 44054. The Survey maps it on the Avon quadrangle. 4,135 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Sheffield within Lorain County

Population over time

2 figures

Sheffield grew from 3,982 to 4,135 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	3,982
2020	4,135	+153 (+4%)

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sheffield, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Sheffield, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,423 shown

Museums hold 1,423 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sheffield between 1853 and 1975: 1,038 Animalia, 305 Fungi, 70 Plantae, 6 Unrecorded, 4 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. A. Wright, A. E. Ricksecker and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Coniophora byssoides (Pers.) P.Karst.	1896	F. D. Kelsey	Oberlin.
Stereum lobatum (Kunze ex Fr.) Fr.	1896	F. D. Kelsey	Black River, east of Oberlin.
Cyathus stercoreus (Schwein.) De Toni	1899	A. E. Ricksecker	Lorain County.
Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)	1853	Baird, Spencer Fullerton	Black River, below falls at Elyria, Ohio
Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1853	S. Baird	Black River Elgria Ohio (above falls)
Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1853	S. Baird	Elyria, Ohio
Etheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 1840	1853	S. Baird	Elyria, Ohio
Aecidium nesaeae W.R.Gerard	1894	Kelsey, F.D.	Lorain County, Ohio
Ammodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818)	1894	Jones, L. (Lynds)	Oberlin Field W of Athletic Park, Lorain, Ohio, USA
Aulacomnium palustre (Hedw.) Schwägr.	1894	F. D. Kelsey
Carpodacus purpureus purpureus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1894	Jones, L. (Lynds)	Morgan's Woods, NW Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA
Catharus ustulatus (Nuttall, 1840)	1894	Jones, L. (Lynds)	Morgan's Woods, NW Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA

All 1,423 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Sheffield: 3 producers, 3 past producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Stone, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Lorain Cnty Hwy Dept. Stone Quarry	Stone	Producer
Lorain Plant-National Gypsum	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Plant
Lorain Plant - Marathon Steel	Iron	Producer
Lorain Plant - U.S. Steel	Iron	Producer
Lorain Elyria Sand Company, Inc Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Lorain Elyria Sand Company, Inc Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
National Sand & Gravel Co Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lorain County

Storms nearby

12 since 2005

The National Weather Service names Sheffield in 12 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2014	Flash Flood	Sheffield	$1,000,000	On the evening of May 12th torrential rainfall dropped an estimated 5 inches of rainfall in 90 minutes over Avon in northern Lorain County. The French Creek flooded from local runoff and routed water from upstream North Ridgeville where the heaviest rain fell. The French Creek, which runs from southeast to northwest through town, flooded several roads and damaged the Mill Road with a washout. 50 to 75 homes sustained basement flooding.
May 2014	Flash Flood	Sheffield	$150,000	Heavy rainfall, measured at 6.5 inches in 3.5 hours was measured by the Sheffield Village service department on the evening of May 12th. Runoff combined with routed water upstream from North Ridgeville and Avon caused the French Creek to rise 10 to 15 feet above flood stage in Sheffield Village. A half dozen buildings were flooded form the French Creek along with eight homes. The creek crested around 1230 am. State Route 201 was closed for eight hours. There were no water rescues and the infrastructure did not sustain any notable damages.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$150,000	Thunderstorm winds downed over a dozen trees and large limbs. Scattered power outages were reported.
August 2024	Tornado (EF1)	Sheffield	$30,000	This tornado had peak intensity of EF1, estimated peak winds of 110 mph, moved generally east-northeastward, and caused sporadic damage along its path. The tornado began at an industrial facility along Miller Road on the northwest side of Avon, where a portion of a building's roof was removed. It snapped multiple trees and lofted a trampoline into the street along Wedgewood Drive in Avon Lake, and snapped multiple trees and removed shingles from a house on Teasel Court in Avon Lake. Additional and sporadic tree damage occurred before the tornado exited Lorain County and entered Cuyahoga County just west of Wolf Road, along the Avon Lake/Bay Village border.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree. The tree crushed a car.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$10,000	Thunderstorms downed several large trees.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$4,000	Several trees were reported down.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$2,000	One tree and a few large limbs and power lines were reported down.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	$1,000	Tree downed onto power lines and car along East River Road in Sheffield. Photo did not show any discernable damage to car.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to be between 65 and 70 mph.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheffield	-	Thunderstorm winds were estimated at 60 mph.
May 2011	Hail	Sheffield	-	Penny to quarter sized hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Lorain County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Vincent	1.0 miles	16
Pikewood Manor	2.3 miles	16
South Lorain	2.5 miles	15
Crandall	3.3 miles	16
Penfield Junction	3.4 miles	15
Elyria	3.7 miles	16
Avon	3.9 miles	16
Sheffield Lake	4.6 miles	16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Sheffield	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1984238	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048375. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.