Sheldon may refer to:
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Sheldon (name) Sheldon is an English masculine given name as well as a surname combining the Old English ''scelf'' (rock ledge shelf) and the place name ''haddon'', which in turn comes from the words ''hǣth'' (heath) and ''dūn'' (hill; but also, valley).https:// ...
, a given name and a surname, and a list of people with the name
Places
Australia
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Sheldon, Queensland
Sheldon is a rural residential locality in the City of Redland, Queensland, Australia. In the , Sheldon had a population of 1,704 people.
Geography
Sheldon is south-east of the Brisbane CBD.
The suburb is sparsely populated, consisting of ...
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Sheldon Forest
Sheldon Forest is a pocket of urban bushland located north-west of Sydney, Australia in a narrow valley between Turramurra and Pymble.
Sheldon Forest is of high conservation status because it contains some of the last remnants of the endan ...
, New South Wales
United Kingdom
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Sheldon, Derbyshire
Sheldon is a village in the Derbyshire Peak District, England near Bakewell. It is best known for being the closest village to Magpie Mine, a lead mine with an engine house built in the Cornish style. Lead mining flourished around here in the ...
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Sheldon, Devon
Sheldon is a village and civil parish in the East Devon district of the county of Devon in England. It is located in the Blackdown Hills, north-northwest of Honiton. In the 2011 UK census, its population was recorded as 189 persons, with an av ...
, England
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Sheldon, West Midlands
Sheldon is an area of east Birmingham, England. Historically part of Warwickshire, it is close to the border with the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull and Birmingham Airport.
Sheldon is also one of the 69 electoral wards in Birmingham, and one of ...
, England
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Sheldon Stone Circle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
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Sheldon Manor, Chippenham, Wiltshire
United States
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Sheldon, Illinois
Sheldon is a village in Sheldon Township, Iroquois County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,070 at the 2010 census, down from 1,232 at the 2000 census.
Geography
Sheldon is located in eastern Iroquois County at . U.S. Route 24 runs ...
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Sheldon, Iowa
Sheldon is a city in O'Brien and Sioux counties in the U.S. state of Iowa, along the Floyd River. The population was 5,512 at the time of the 2020 census; it is the largest city in O'Brien County.
History and culture
Sheldon got its start i ...
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Sheldon, Minnesota
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Sheldon, Missouri
Sheldon is a city in southern Vernon County, Missouri, United States. The population was 543 at the 2010 census.
History
Sheldon was platted in 1881 when the railroad was extended to that point. The city was named for Sheldon A. Wright (or Wight ...
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Sheldon, New York
Sheldon is an incorporated town in Wyoming County, New York. The population was 2,409 at the 2010 census. The Town of Sheldon is on the west border of Wyoming County. The town is southeast of Buffalo.
History
The Town of Sheldon was founded i ...
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Sheldon, North Dakota
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Sheldon, South Carolina
Sheldon is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 579.
A rural area in character, Sheldon was primar ...
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Sheldon, Texas
Sheldon is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) in northeastern Harris County, Texas, United States located completely inside the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of Houston. The Sheldon area is located along Be ...
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Sheldon, Vermont
Sheldon is a town in Franklin County, Vermont, United States. The population was 2,136 at the 2020 census. It contains the unincorporated community of Sheldon Springs.
Geography
Sheldon, named for Revolutionary War colonel Elisha Sheldon,
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Sheldon, Monroe County, Wisconsin
Sheldon is a town in Monroe County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 682 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Oil City, Wisconsin is located within the town of Sheldon.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bu ...
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Sheldon, Rusk County, Wisconsin
Sheldon is a village in Rusk County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 237 at the 2010 census.
History
Around 1885 a few pioneer families named Marshal, Sergeant and Carman settled in the brush a mile west of Sheldon's current locati ...
Other uses
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Sheldon coin grading scale
The Sheldon Coin Grading Scale is a 70-point coin grading scale used in the numismatic assessment of a coin's quality. The American Numismatic Association based its ''Official ANA Grading Standards'' in large part on the Sheldon scale. The scale wa ...
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Sheldon School
Sheldon School (formerly Chippenham Boys' High School) is a large mixed secondary school and sixth form in Chippenham, Wiltshire for students aged 11 to 18 and is the largest school in Wiltshire. Since April 2011, it has been an Academy. It is ...
, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England
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Sheldon High School, several schools
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The Sheldon
The Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri was designed by noted 1904 World's Fair architect Louis C. Spiering and built in 1912 as the home of the Ethical Society of St. Louis. Musicians and public speakers throughout the years have enjo ...
, concert hall and art galleries in St. Louis, Missouri
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''Sheldon'' (webcomic), created by Dave Kellett
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Young Sheldon
''Young Sheldon'' is an American coming-of-age sitcom television series created by Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro for CBS. The series, set in the late 1980s and early 1990s, is a spin-off prequel to ''The Big Bang Theory'' and begins with the ...
'', created by Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro
* Sheldon, a character from the video game ''
Splatoon
is a third-person shooter video game franchise created by Hisashi Nogami, and developed and owned by Nintendo. Set in a post-apocalyptic Earth inhabited by anthropomorphic marine animals, the series centers around fictional cephalopods known ...
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See also
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Shelton (disambiguation)
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Shelldon
''Shelldon'' ( th, เชลล์ดอน, Chell̒ dxn) is a computer-animated children's television series directed by Dr. Jirayuth Chusanachoti. The series debuted on Channel 3 in Thailand in October 13, 2008 and debuted at Qubo in October 16 ...
'', an animated television series
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