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Buffalo, North Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Buffalo City. It lies in ZIP code area 58011. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo quadrangle. 195 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,204 feet above sea level.

Buffalo within Cass County

On record in Buffalo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Buffalo grew from 188 to 195 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010188
2020195+7 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

Fires near this place

8 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Buffalo between 2016 and 2020, burning about 4 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
19 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service10000134
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service10000112
3 June 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service1000110
1 June 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBNSF GRASS FIRE @ 141ST AVE S E
29 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceLAGOON FIRE
14 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSHELTER BELT FIRE 05142019
25 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service04252019 GRASS FIRE
23 April 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceWISNEWSKI'S BONFIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

35 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buffalo in 35 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 17 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2019Thunderstorm WindBuffalo1 hurtA semi truck was blown over by the wind near the Buffalo exit on Interstate 94. The damaged truck blocked part of the westbound lane for around 30 minutes. The truck driver suffered minor injuries.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBuffalo$1,000,000Two 5000 bushel steel grain bins were caved in by the winds and several trees were knocked down. The doors were blown off a machine shed. Extensive crop damage occurred across Buffalo Township.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBuffalo$500,000Major crop damage occurred in Cornell and Ayr Townships due to downburst winds and hail. Tree damage was also reported. A ND RWIS mesonet site at mile point 10 on highway 38 reported a 57 mph wind gust at 609 pm CST.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBuffalo$20,000The wind gusted to sixty-three miles per hour for five minutes until 7:45 PM.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindBuffalo$15,000The wind destroyed a historic barn near Interstate 94 at the Buffalo exit, the site of the 1964 National Plowing Contest. It was a campaign stop for Hubert H. Humphrey and Barry Goldwater. 100,000 people attended the event.
June 2001HailBuffalo$500The hail broke the windshield on a car.
July 2023HailBuffalo-Delayed report of quarter sized hail.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBuffalo-Semi-truck trailer combination was blown off of Interstate 94.
June 2018Tornado (EF0)Buffalo-This tornado tracked across central Hill Township, mainly over open fields. It kicked up a considerable amount of dust across the southern flank of the storm, as indicated by spotter videos. Some large branches were broken down in shelterbelts. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBuffalo-Six to ten inch diameter trees were blown down in Buffalo.
June 2018HailBuffalo-Large hail covered the yard.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindBuffalo-Strong winds were reported along with pea sized hail.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBuffalo-Strong winds were reported, flattening crops in the area.
June 2013HailBuffalo-The hail was accompanied by 45 to 50 mph winds.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBuffalo-Several large tree branches and tree limbs were broken down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBuffalo-The wind gust was measured by an ND DOT RWIS sensor near Buffalo.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBuffalo-The wind gust was measured at the NDOT RWIS site near Highway 38.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBuffalo-Three large 60,000 bushel steel grain bins were torn off their concrete pads. Dryers and other equipment at the grain company were knocked over. Flying metal cut a nearby powerline. Numerous trees in the town were also uprooted.
July 2004Tornado (F0)Buffalo-The tornado touched down in an open field.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBuffalo-The wind gust was measured by the ND DOT RWIS site near Buffalo.
July 2004Flash FloodBuffalo-Water flowed over county road 22 along with local field and farmyard flooding.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindBuffalo-Numerous trees were blown down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindBuffalo-A 58 mph wind gust was measured at a North Dakota DOT RWIS site.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindBuffalo-A North Dakota DOT RWIS site measured a 67 mph wind gust.
July 1999HailBuffalo-One inch hail was reported at the 1-94 exit to Buffalo.
August 2015HailBuffalo-no account filed
May 2007HailBuffalo-no account filed
June 2006HailBuffalo-no account filed
June 2006HailBuffalo-no account filed
August 2006HailBuffalo-no account filed
September 2005HailBuffalo-no account filed
September 2002HailBuffalo-no account filed
July 1999HailBuffalo-no account filed
May 1997HailBuffalo-no account filed
September 1997HailBuffalo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Wheatland Colony5.6 miles10
Magnolia6.4 miles11
Tower City6.6 miles10
Ayr8.9 miles9
Absaraka9.1 miles11
Embden10.2 miles11
Wheatland10.9 miles11
Alice10.9 miles10

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.

Wikipedia article on BuffaloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2047768The 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 1028172. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.