Buffalo, Indiana

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Van Buren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47235. It lies near Cherry Hill. The Survey maps it on the Story quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Buffalo within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 printed 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.

1942 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:125000
1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Story quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Story quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
1986 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Buffalo (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 340 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	31
Arson/incendiarism	14
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
26 September 1999	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	POWERLINE
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	WHITE
8 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	35 acres	Hoosier National Forest	FREEDOM
6 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	BROWN
4 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	LUTES FIRE
9 April 2012	Other causes	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	HOUSTON NORTH
7 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	LUTHERAN LAKE
6 April 2011	Debris and open burning	4.5 acres	Hoosier National Forest	PRUITT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown 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
Spurgeons Corner	1.0 miles	21
Becks Grove	2.2 miles	20
Christiansburg	2.3 miles	21
Story	4.7 miles	21
Pikes Peak	5.0 miles	21
Stone Head	5.1 miles	21
Lake on the Green	5.8 miles	18
Elkinsville	6.5 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 452118. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.