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Buffalo, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43722. It stands on Soggy Run. The Survey maps it on the Byesville quadrangle. 373 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 856 feet above sea level.

Buffalo within Guernsey County

Population over time

2 figures

Buffalo fell from 401 to 373 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. 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
2010401
2020373-28 (-7%)

Then and now

1911 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Buffalo, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Buffalo, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 nearby

39 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Buffalo between 2009 and 2020, burning about 66 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15250
29 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8805
20 September 2020Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources16076
26 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15792
31 May 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2014Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guernsey County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 161 shown

Museums hold 161 specimens collected within 10 miles of Buffalo between 1875 and 1975: 102 Animalia, 51 Plantae, 8 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W. (William), Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al., Adams, W.; Adams, S. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis.Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis.1902F.O. GroverBlack Swamp
Specimen of Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 1821Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 18211916not recorded
Specimen of Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 1878Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 18781916not recorded
A photograph of the species Asclepias tuberosa, not of this specimenAsclepias tuberosa L.1875s.c.Fairmont
A photograph of the species Enslenia albida, not of this specimenEnslenia albida Nutt.1875s.c.Fairmont
A photograph of the species Impatiens pallida, not of this specimenImpatiens pallida Nutt.1875Lloyd, Curtis GatesFairmont
A photograph of the species Daedalea ambigua, not of this specimenDaedalea ambigua Berk.1902Lloyd C. G.Glenwood
A photograph of the species Valsa nivea, not of this specimenValsa nivea (Hoffm.) Fr.1906Wilson C. B.Oberlin near Black Swamp
A photograph of the species Dothiorella Sacc., not of this specimenDothiorella Sacc., 18801910Dawson W.Byesville
Apidae1916not recorded
A photograph of the species Apis mellifera, not of this specimenApis mellifera Linnaeus, 17581916not recorded
A photograph of the species Cuclotogaster heterographus, not of this specimenCuclotogaster heterographus (Nitzsch, 1866)1916P. R. Lowry

All 161 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 2014

The National Weather Service names Buffalo in 5 storm reports between 2014 and 2020: 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
April 2014FloodBuffalo$5,000Heavy rainfall caused rises on Wills Creek downstream from Seneca Lake Dam. Minor flooding of roads was reported.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindBuffalo$2,500Department of highways reported trees down near Buffalo.
May 2014FloodBuffalo$2,000This is a continuation of flooding that began on April 30th. Heavy rainfall caused rises on Wills Creek downstream from Seneca Lake Dam. Minor flooding of roads was reported.
March 2020Flash FloodBuffalo-A 911 Call Center reported that flooding across State Route 209 had led to closures around mile marker 13/14 near Byesville.
August 2020Heavy RainBuffalo-A spotter reported 4.5 inches of rain during the day between Buffalo and Senecaville.

Every storm recorded in Guernsey 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
Derwent1.4 miles14
Walhonding1.4 miles13
Pleasant City1.6 miles14
Fairview2.0 miles14
Robins2.7 miles14
Greenwood3.2 miles13
Senecaville3.3 miles13
Lucasburg3.7 miles14

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 Q3473025The 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 1060904. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.