Buffalo, New York

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• Erie County

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1894 1984

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 12 of 204 shown

• Buffalo and Erie County Historical SocietyNational Historic Landmark · listed 1980
• Buffalo State Asylum for the InsaneNational Historic Landmark · listed 1986
• Buffalo State HospitalNational Historic Landmark · listed 1973
• COLUMBIA (steamer)National Historic Landmark · listed 1979
• EDWARD M. COTTER (fireboat)National Historic Landmark · listed 1996
• Kleinhans Music HallNational Historic Landmark · listed 1989
• Darwin D. Martin HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1986
• NASH (harbor tug)National Historic Landmark · listed 1991
• Prudential BuildingNational Historic Landmark · listed 1973
• St. Paul's Episcopal CathedralNational Historic Landmark · listed 1973
• USS THE SULLIVANS (destroyer)National Historic Landmark · listed 1986
• 20th Century Clublisted 2011

Every listing in Erie County

Buffalo fell from 458,000 to 278,349 between 1970 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.

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.

• 1894 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1901 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:62500, 12 printings
• 1948 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Buffalo NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Buffalo NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 706 fires within 5 miles of Buffalo between 2000 and 2020, burning about 266 acres in total. 90 started naturally. 114 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Soldiers Place
• Doyle
• Lackawanna
• West Seneca
• Winchester
• Blasdell

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Buffalo: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Perlite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Erie County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buffalo in 65 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 30 thunderstorm wind, 18 flash flood, 10 hail, 2 flood. The reports record 12 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Erie County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973345. 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.

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.