Sheffield Map
Sheffield is a village in Bureau County, Illinois, United States. The population was 946 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Ottawa–Streator Micropolitan Statistical Area. Sheffield was founded by Joseph E. Sheffield and Henry Farnam in 1852. Sheffield and Farnam constructed the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, and the town site was intended as a coaling station for trains. According to Farnam, he and Sheffield flipped a coin to see for whom the town would be named. A monument to Joseph E. Sheffield, and the Rock Island Railroad stands today in Sheffield's town square. The town is home to a leaking nuclear waste storage facility which closed in 1978.
Sheffield is located at 41°21?21?N 89°44?12?W / 41.35583°N 89.73667°W / 41.35583; -89.73667 (41.355915, -89.736672).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.8 square miles (1.9 km²), all of it land.
Nearby cities include Kewanee, Tiskilwa, Bradford, Princeton, Atkinson.