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Sheldon

city in Iowa, United States
City City In The United States Q1590850

Facts

19 properties

Identity

Instance of
city in the United States
Official website
www.sheldoniowa.com[9]
Official name
Sheldon[12]

Location

Country
United States[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 43.181°, -95.848°[8]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
O'Brien County, Sioux County[2][3]

Population and size

Area
12.069158, 11.644351
Elevation above sea level
435.0
Population
5,188, 5,512[10][11]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 5,188 · 5,512 GeoNames 5,088 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Local dialing code
712[7]
Postal code
51201[6]
More facts +8
Website
www.sheldoniowa.com
Located in
O'Brien County, Sioux County
Coordinates
🗺️ 43.181°, -95.848°
Head of government
Greg Geels[5]
Number of households
2196.0
Per capita income
30430.0
Territory overlaps
Sheldon urban area
Water as percent of area
0.0
🏷️ Also known as
en Sheldon, IA en Sheldon, Iowa en Sheldon ar شيلدون ar شيلدون (آيوا) fa شلدون ru Шелдон zh 謝爾頓
🔖 Identifiers · 20
VIAF cluster ID
127873646
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n82251809
ArchINFORM location ID
38097
Curlie ID
Regional/North_America/United_States/Iowa/Localities/S/Sheldon/
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)
19-72390
FactGrid item ID
Janet.
Freebase ID
/m/013cn_
GNIS Feature ID
461558, 2395868
GeoNames ID
4876141
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
sheldon-0
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0434454
J9U entity ID
987007559985805171
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MusicBrainz area ID
615926d5-246d-4507-bd36-ce24fd915b49
OpenStreetMap relation ID
129104
Quora topic ID
Sheldon-IA
Topic's main category
Category:Sheldon, Iowa
UN/LOCODE
USSEI
Who's on First ID
85943301
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJyX4vrpkMgVQxKjHR8Hmd
Yale LUX ID
place/960020ce-b99a-4451-b1e0-ec132389c3f1
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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Located in time zoneP421
America/Chicago 2026-09-26 P/PPL · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
People born here 4
George Kelly, Terry Brands, Dennis Marion Schnurr, A. G. Kruger
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
O'Brien County, Sioux County
← Place of publication 2
N'West Iowa Review, The Sheldon Mail
Contained subdivisions 1
N'West Iowa Review
Country 1
United States
Instance of 1
city in the United States
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Summary

Sheldon is a city in the United States[1].

Related Entities

United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . sheldoniowa.gov. Retrieved . sheldoniowa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . 2020 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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