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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

West Buffalo, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Florence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43517. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Blakeslee quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

West Buffalo within Williams County

Then and now

1914 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of West Buffalo (historical), surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of West Buffalo (historical), surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 1905 county history

4,993 words on this township

The county history of 1905 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Florence Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Florence Township - 4,993 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 289 shown

Museums hold 289 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Buffalo (historical) between 1893 and 1974: 262 Animalia, 23 Fungi, 3 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Anson A. Hinkley, Bauer, L. 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 unnamed1897F. L. StevensColumbia.
Specimen of Coleosporium asterum (Dietel) Syd. & P.Syd.Coleosporium asterum (Dietel) Syd. & P.Syd.1902Kellerman, W.A.Edgerton
Specimen of Elimia livescens (Menke, 1830)Elimia livescens (Menke, 1830)1916Anson A. HinkleySt. Joseph River, Edgerton, North America
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus americanus, not of this specimenAnaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)1893not recordedEdgerton, Fish Lake
A photograph of the species Apalone spinifera, not of this specimenApalone spinifera (Lesueur, 1827)1893not recordedEdgerton
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651893P. KirschSt. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lithobates clamitans, not of this specimenLithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)1893not recordedEdgerton, Fish Lake
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181893P. KirschSt. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio
A photograph of the species Noturus miurus, not of this specimenNoturus miurus Jordan, 18771893P. KirschSt. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio
A photograph of the species Pimephales notatus, not of this specimenPimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1893P. KirschSt. Josephs River, Edgerton, Ohio
A photograph of the species Aspidium Sw., not of this specimenAspidium Sw.1895Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln MoseleyFlorence
A photograph of the species Coleosporium solidaginis, not of this specimenColeosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.1902W. A. KellermanEdgerton

All 289 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of West Buffalo (historical): 1 producer. All of them 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
Tri-State South DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Williams 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
Blakeslee2.0 miles13
Denmark (historical)2.7 miles12
Valley Springs Addition3.3 miles12
Melbern4.1 miles12
Mina4.4 miles12
Edon4.8 miles14
Durham Estates5.2 miles13
Edon Home Court5.2 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063675. 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.

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.

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.