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Buffalo Manor East, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Buffalo City. It lies in ZIP code area 55313. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo East quadrangle.

Buffalo Manor East within Wright County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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.

In the county-history sources

5,026 words on this township

History of Wright County, Minnesota Volume II, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Buffalo City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Buffalo City - 5,026 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Buffalo Manor East in 2004, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
10 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wright County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Buffalo Manor East: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Morris Nebtz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Munsterteiger Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Varner Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wright 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bufflao Manor0.1 miles12
Buffalo0.9 miles12
Rassat7.3 miles12
Montrose8.1 miles12
Maple Lake8.5 miles10
Rockford Riverview Estates8.8 miles15
Rockford8.9 miles15
Waverly9.4 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122545887The 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 2067300. 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.

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.