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Buffalo City, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Buffalo City City. It lies in ZIP code area 54622. It lies near Bucks Island. The Survey maps it on the Cochrane quadrangle. 1,007 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Buffalo City within Buffalo County

Population over time

2 figures

Buffalo City fell from 1,023 to 1,007 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
20101,023
20201,007-16 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Buffalo City between 1992 and 2014, burning about 432 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
30 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1992Smoking1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 May 2012Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2000Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 1993Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Buffalo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Buffalo City: 10 past producers, 8 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Averbeck Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Buffalo City Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Buffalo City Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cochrane Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Foegen Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
J. Martin Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lizzy Pauls Pond Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plain View Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
River Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Cochrane Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Buffalo County

Storms near this place

29 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buffalo City in 29 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 12 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 heavy rain, 2 flash flood. 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
July 2017FloodBuffalo City$527,000After the initial flash flooding across Buffalo County, the flood waters continued to cause problems through July 20th into the 21st. Flood waters along Eagle Creek washed out a bridge on County Road G north of Fountain City.
June 2021HailBuffalo City$520,000Golf ball sized hail fell in Buffalo.
July 2017Flash FloodBuffalo City$500,000Heavy rains of 6 to 8 inches across the southern half of Buffalo County produced flash flooding. A mudslide covered a portion of State Highway 37 north of Alma. Portions of County Road O were completely covered by water and the road was closed between Cochrane and State Highway 88. Numerous streets were covered by standing water in Fountain City. Around a half dozen roads were closed across the county because of the flooding.
June 2021HailBuffalo City$260,000Up to 2.5 inch diameter hail was reported just north of Buffalo.
July 2017HailBuffalo City$34,000Golf ball sized hail fell near Cochrane.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBuffalo City$10,000Trees were blown down in the town of Buffalo. A vehicle was damaged when one of the trees fell onto it.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindBuffalo City$7,500no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindBuffalo City$5,000no account filed
December 2021Thunderstorm WindBuffalo City$3,000Trees were blown down in Buffalo.
July 2007Flash FloodBuffalo City$3,000Flash flooding was reported, along with street flooding and water ponding in lowlands.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBuffalo City$3,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindBuffalo City$2,500Winds gusted up to 70 mph and knocked trees down.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindBuffalo City$2,000Trees were blown down near Buffalo City.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBuffalo City$1,000Law enforcement reported trees down near the city of Cochrane.
June 2001HailBuffalo City$1,000no account filed
June 2001HailBuffalo City$1,000no account filed
July 2002HailBuffalo City$500no account filed
June 2025HailBuffalo City-The public reported hail up to nickel sized in Buffalo City.
June 2020Heavy RainBuffalo City-In Cochrane, 3.87 inches of rain fell.
September 2018Heavy RainBuffalo City-In Buffalo, 4.47 inches of rain fell.
April 2017HailBuffalo City-Golf ball sized hail was reported near Cochrane.
August 2016Heavy RainBuffalo City-In Buffalo City, 5 inches of rain fell.
August 2009Heavy RainBuffalo City-An observer measured 4.32 inches of rain during the preceding 24-hours.
June 2018HailBuffalo City-no account filed
June 2010HailBuffalo City-no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBuffalo City-no account filed
June 2001HailBuffalo City-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindBuffalo City-no account filed
August 2000HailBuffalo City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Buffalo 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
Cochrane1.6 miles14
Herold5.3 miles19
Czechville5.7 miles14
Anchorage (historical)6.3 miles19
Alma6.7 miles20
Cream7.7 miles19
Waumandee9.8 miles11
Fountain City10.3 miles16

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 Buffalo CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1570227The 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 1562364. 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.